Location: Accountant – Edgbaston – Up to £45k
Levy UK&I is a vibrant and exciting sector of Compass Group, the world’s largest catering company. We work at some of the greatest venues in the world, providing catering and hospitality services. We are proud to have long‑standing partnerships with venues and events across sport, entertainment, and conferencing, including Wimbledon, Twickenham, Edgbaston, and Villa Park. At the core of our work is a belief that great food, drink, and service is key to creating legendary experiences. Every day we’re playing with new flavours, chatting with guests, and using technology to disrupt the food industry.
We have a strong ethical core: sustainability, wellbeing, and D&I are at the heart of what we do. We commit to Net Zero by 2027 and are proud that all our team members are at or above the Real Living Wage or London Living Wage. We are official partners of the British Paralympic Association. Visit www.levy.co.uk.
Overall Purpose of the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Levy for a finance professional to support a venue within the Stadia subsector. The candidate will business partner the venue General Manager and Heads of Department, working collaboratively with internal functions and external stakeholders. This role involves developing commercial acumen and operational decision‑making skills.
Key Accountabilities – Purpose
- Business partnering with the GM and HODs to ensure strong commercial and operational decision making, managing financial risks and opportunities, and supporting operational delivery of budgeted sales, PBIT, margin, and client returns.
- Deliver proactive financial analysis with summarised findings and recommendations for decision making, using dashboards from E15 Insights covering sales and costs.
- Take responsibility for financial controls and processes for the venue—raising invoices, cash reporting, credit card reconciliation, reviewing the PO log, resolving suspense accounts, match‑day ETA’s, monthly R & A process, weekly flash process, and budget process.
Key Accountabilities – Performance
- Deliver analysis of key business reports: dashboards, month‑end reports, business reviews, client reports, budgets, flash forecasts, and other ad‑hoc analysis for monthly/weekly reviews.
- Monitor initiative delivery plans, challenge operational teams, highlight risks to the GM and Finance Business Partner.
- Assist training of operational teams in business reporting and KPIs to improve financial performance.
- Populate monthly balance‑sheet document for review, escalating key risks and opportunities.
- Co‑lead budgeting and forecasting process with the GM, ensuring signed‑off processes with the operational team.
- Attend client finance meetings when required, reporting on client return and addressing contract issues.
- Participate in future planning and strategic decision‑making.
- Present on match days; evenings and weekends are required throughout the season (May to September).
People
- Collaborate effectively within finance and the operational team.
- Build relationships with key finance stakeholders.
- Support learning of finance apprentices and share knowledge and best practice.
- Possess experience in partnering operations and management accounting, including accounting adjustments and reporting for commercial decision making.
- Demonstrate a proactive and energetic approach.
Personal Qualities – Accountability & Resilience
- Balance competing requirements, managing tight deadlines.
- Be commercially astute and quick to navigate back‑to‑back deadlines throughout the year.
- Pay attention to detail, ensuring accurate and meaningful analysis.
- Adapt to changing environments and circumstances.
Personal Qualities – Relationship Building
- Build relationships with stakeholders in Compass, clients, operations, and finance.
- Communicate orally and in writing with finance and non‑finance audiences concisely and logically.
Personal Qualities – Presenting Information
- Know the details and be data‑numerate.
- Operate comfortably with data to drive decisions, using data warehouses and dashboards.
- Present core drivers/issues to the appropriate audience succinctly.
- Assess opportunities.
Desirable
- Experience with SAP, Sage, and QuickSight for analysis and reporting.
- Part‑qualified and working toward full qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
Why Join Us?
Levy UK & Ireland is part of Compass Group, the world’s largest catering company and a vibrant leader in hospitality. We celebrate individuality, building inclusive teams where everyone feels they belong. We are an equal‑opportunity employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
Benefits
- Medicash – healthcare benefits (dental, optical, therapy, up to 4 dependent children).
- Aviva DigiCare – free annual healthcare check.
- Exclusive Benefits & Wellbeing site (Perks at Work).
- Entertainment discounts – up to 55% off cinema tickets.
- Health & Wellbeing discounts – Nuffield Health (20%) and Pure Gym (10%).
- Travel discounts – TUI and Expedia.
- Shopping discounts – save up to 15% at high‑street and online stores via shopping cards.
- Meals on duty.
- Vodafone discounts.
- Pension scheme and life assurance.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- 23 days + Bank Holidays and a birthday day off.
- 2 additional leave days following return from maternity leave.
- Competitive family benefits.
- Day off for baby’s first birthday.
- Holiday purchase scheme.
- Ongoing training and development with career pathways.
- Professional subscriptions paid.
- Financial wellbeing programme with preferred rates on salary finance products.
As part of Compass you help feed people, fuel progress, and forge connections across around 6,000 venues. Join us to grow your career with the industry leader, and get competitive pay, great perks, and unrivalled learning opportunities at one of the UK’s biggest businesses.
Compass Group UK&I is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance. Our culture respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all team members. We want colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive – because diversity is our strength.
For further information and to apply, please visit our website and click the “Apply” button.
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