London - Transactional Finance Manager

Itsu Grocery

London•Competitive \+ bonus•Full time
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the ideal candidate:

• An experienced finance professional, ideally from a product\-led or FMCG business


• Technically strong, process\-driven, and passionate about systems, automation, and efficiency


• Comfortable in a fast\-paced, high\-growth environment, able to build structure and controls under pressure


• Detail\-oriented and collaborative, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders


• Confident communicator who can influence across all levels of the business


• Intermediate or advanced excel skills are preferred


• Ability to work under pressure and within tight time frames


• Sage experience preferrable

itsu is the healthy eating, Asian inspired quick service retail \& grocery brand with over 70 stores in the UK and a leading grocery business across Europe and beyond. Renowned for its best\-in\-class food made fresh in every shop every day, itsu has huge global ambitions with a commitment to continue to open many more stores and intensify the growth of its already thriving grocery arm. With its best\-is\-class healthy food, latest technology, innovation, and talented workforce, itsu is the future of fast food.

itsu \[grocery], which this role falls under, takes the itsu brand into supermarkets, health food stores, online, wholesale and internationally with products such as crispy seaweed thins, frozen gyoza \& bao, brilliant’broth, rice’noodles \& miso’easy to name a few…

D\&I statement:

itsu \[grocery] is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation. We encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply for all of our opportunities.

When applying for a role with us, please remove your: full name, name of University/School, address, email address and any photos of you on your CV and covering letter. non\-anonymised CVs may not be reviewed.

Scope of the role:

• Manage, develop, and mentor the transactional finance team.


• Keep accurate records, control reports and clean audit trails for the year\-end financial audit


• Process and oversee all purchase and overheads invoices and expenses posting


• Be key point of contact for transactional queries from suppliers and internal stakeholders


• Develop and provide monthly reporting on expense management, aged receivables and overdue payables


• Ensure AP \& AR\-related general ledger accounts finalisation, to be reviewed with FC on a monthly basis


• Provide input on monthly cash flow forecasting, as required


• Prepare payment runs


• Supervise the supplier statements, account customers and bank reconciliations at month\-end


• Prepare of balance sheet reconciliations, to be reviewed with FC on a monthly basis


• Assist the FC in continuously improving the controls environment


• Prepare and file quarterly VAT returns


• Create and maintain manuals for finance procedures


• Ownership for the debit note process

• Competitive salary


• Competitive bonus scheme


• 25 days holiday \+ bank holidays (two bank holidays are interchangeable for other religious holidays)


• Health insurance


• Company pension scheme


• Hybrid working (2 days wfh)


• Opportunity to work from abroad


• 50% employee discount in itsu shops


• Free itsu lunch


• Discounts at major retailers


• Salary sacrifice cycle and electric vehicle schemes

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