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Transactional Finance Manager


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

About us:

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

What we offer

  • 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 

  • A sizeable training budget to support your ongoing development


 

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