Finance Manager

Nando's is on a journey to Create Lasting Happiness, making a difference to the lives of our people, our customers, and the communities we work in. Originally started in Johannesburg, South Africa, we pride ourselves on creating memorable experiences for everyone involved in Nando's: from our employees, communities, founders, and suppliers, but most importantly, our customers. The Finance Manager reports into the Finance Department but is uniquely placed in the business to provide a strong link between Central Support (Head Office) functions and the UK&I Leadership Team (LT). Overall Ambition:

• To business partner Central Support functions - with a key focus on the Tech team.
• To serve as a strategic liaison between the Finance and Tech Teams. This role involves analysing financial data, providing insights to support Technology investments, and ensuring that Tech reporting practices are accurate and robust.
A day in the life:
• Financial Analysis and Reporting:
• To produce accurate and timely month end financial reporting of tech spend and insightful commentary on variance analysis.
• To partner with the Tech Director and Tech Leadership Team to manage periodic trackers and the output of a running out-turn for tech spend in the financial year.
• To produce Board packs which detail progress against tech strategy and updates on tech roadmap.
• To manage all areas of Tech financial accounting and reporting - capitalisation of people, contractor spend, licencing of software and restaurant specific investment.
• Budgeting and Forecasting:
• Accountable for the Budgeting and Forecasting of all Tech spend across Capex and Opex.
• Support long-term financial planning for technology investments.
• To work with key stakeholders in Tech Leadership Team to ensure spend is managed regularly and accurately through robust financial processes.
• Strategic Partnership:
• Collaborate with Tech Leadership Team to understand new project requirements and financial implications.
• Provide financial insights and recommendations to support technology strategy and decision-making.
• Develop business cases and ROI analysis on tech projects - to analyse and understand how new tech investment may create value within the business.
• Process Improvement:
• Identify opportunities for process improvements within the finance and technology functions.
• Implement best practices to enhance financial reporting and analysis related to technology.
For Central Support:
• To work alongside other Central Support cost centres and provide accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Partner with Central Support cost centres to assist with Budgeting and Forecasting - manage the timetable for deliverables and ensure all BAU and project investment spend is included.
• Act as a consultant to Central Support cost centres - having responsibility for identifying financial reporting needs and commercial analysis in those areas - providing greater commercial insight, with a focus on establishing greater accuracy, efficiency and capability.
  
  ACA/ACCA or CIMA qualified essential with 2-3 years+ post-qual experience
• Demonstrable experience required in Budgeting and Forecasting, Business Partnering, P&L analysis, Cost Management and ROI analysis
• Multi-site experience in a large Hospitality or Retail comparable organisation highly beneficial
• Understand the principles of finance and accounting, and the role it plays within a large organisation.
• Self-motivated with exemplary organisational skills, able to multi -task and manage their own work.
• Ability to create and maintain great relationships with anyone through being a trusted advisor of financial/commercial data, while also creating healthy tension between function & finance.
• This is a wide-reaching remit and requires a Nandoca (what we call employees) who can move between high-level problem-analysis ("thinking") and the practical delivery of outputs in a clear and concise fashion ("doing")
• Great communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to explain and interpret financial information.
• Willingness to learn. Along with the ability to make improvements to routine processes.
• Adaptable in a continuously evolving environment
• Strong computer skills needed with the ability to learn and develop excellent knowledge of Coda and Anaplan systems.
  
  25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Free Nando's when you're working (and 40% discount when you're not)
• Annual team trips, AKA a free holiday
• Reward membership scheme and access to great discounts
• Four-week sabbatical every five years you've been with us
• Private healthcare
This is a hybrid role and you will be required in our Putney offices three days a week.