Accountant - Cafe

About The Role

Morrisons is recruiting for a qualified Accountant to join our Finance team, to work closely
with and provide critical support to our Commercial Café and Staff Room business team.

Our Café Accountant is a true business partner to the wider commercial and operational
team, undertaking analysis, and providing commercial advice to decision makers and key
stakeholders.

The role is incredibly diverse in nature and involves working with a wide
range of stakeholders to deliver accurate performance reporting and insights, analysis of
trading performance trends, costs and supplier income recognition, annual and quarterly
budgeting and cash collection.

**You'll be responsible for**:
? Updating the Café and Staff Room P&L’s and providing variance analysis to measure
and understand periodic and YTD performance against Budget
? Ownership, maintenance and communication of weekly reporting on sales and margin
? Stakeholder management, working closely with the Café leadership team on
budgeting, forecasting and reviewing of actuals
? Management of the outturn process with Café stakeholders, to identify and highlight
any risks and opportunities, allowing the business to respond on a timely basis
? Developing and maintaining relationships with internal stakeholders, to understand
and meet their needs.
? Period End Procedures, including P&L reviews with the Café team, preparation and
posting of accruals and prepayments, and completion of balance sheet reconciliations.
? Supporting with the annual and quarterly budget process
? Provision of ad hoc analysis and insight to aid decision making on potential
promotional plans, new menu performance and pricing decisions
? Management and review of operational costs performance against budget
? Management and review of capital expenditure budgets and requests, and
measurement of projects performance against business cases

About You

? Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)
? Good Commercial knowledge
? Attention to detail with ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload to meet agreed
deadlines

? Excellent stakeholder management skills and an ability to influence at all levels
? An ability to deliver in a complex, fast paced environment
? Excellent analytical thinking and numerical skills
? Excellent Microsoft Excel or Google sheets skills
? Excellent communication skills, with ability to articulate financial data in a clear and
transparent way
? Previous experience of supporting the delivery of finance plans and budgets

About The Company

? We have adopted a 4 day working week and flexibility on hours.
? Recent PE takeover with exciting business areas primed for growth
? Scope for progression - both upwards and laterally, within Morrisons
? Offer of study support to help achieve your goals of becoming fully qualified
? Our high spec head office offers a range of mod cons and amenities - including onsite
gym, parking, prayer space, bespoke coffee shops, and a wide variety of freshly
prepared and subsidised meals daily from our cafeteria.
offer for you.