Banking & Finance Associate - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Elior

Description

Scottish Rugby Hospitality, working in partnership with Scottish Rugby, provides all matchday and non-matchday food and beverage operations at Scottish Gas, Murrayfield Stadium.

Commercial Financial Controller
to join our team and continue to provide outstanding financial support and success to our operations.

To be considered for this role you will need to have strong financial acumen, be analytical in mindset, and have strong reporting skills.

Knowledge of contract catering would be beneficial but not essential.

Feeding children in schools, loved ones in hospitals and care homes, sports fans in stadiums, visitors in heritage sites and teams in the workplace.

We are a multi-award-winning global player in the hospitality sector, founded in 1991 with over 105,000 colleagues worldwide, serving over 4 million guests every day.

In the UK, our dedicated team serve our customers across 1200 locations.

Because of our success and stability, we can offer you excellent career opportunities where you will be nurtured and supported to fulfil your potential.

We are renowned for looking after our people, with 87% of our colleagues feeling proud to work with us, and we are committed to delivering delicious and healthy food, which is ethically sourced.

And we're committed to looking after the planet, supporting the community, cutting food waste and supporting wellbeing.

At the heart of the matchday experience, we bring choice, quality, and value for money to some of the most prestigious sports venues across the UK.

The prime objective of the role is to provide commercial analysis and insight, financial reporting, and forecasting, and to influence and challenge business decisions to maximise business profit.

You will work closely with the senior management team of Elior and Scottish Rugby to ensure that our financial performance is in line with key objectives of the contract, and that both fixed, variable costs and expenditures are within acceptable weekly limits, and that we're always operating to achieve profitability targets.

As the Commercial Financial Controller, you will be responsible for:

Unlock and visualise the key drivers on the performance of the hospitality contract, providing insight to growth across different revenue streams.

Produce KPI dashboard on the effectiveness of the Murrayfield hospitality contract
This will include operational effectiveness of the various events, event-based P&Ls, effectiveness of the sales and marketing initiatives, in depth variance analysis

Assisting in client presentations on the key messages of financial performance, driving a risk and opps schedule and responding to client queries in a timely manner.

Identify and report on key trend metrics on various events in a financial dashboard.
Lead the planning/forecast iterations for the Stadium through partnering with MD/client to align business strategy to financial performance.
Assess overall finance compliance and provide recommendations for improvements
Provide decision support to initiatives and projects supporting delivery of targets through insightful analysis and idea generation
Scottish Rugby finance and operational team
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