Salary: £29,000 - £31,000 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent, full-time. 37 hours per week.
Reports to: Finance Manager
 

ROLE

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Finance Officer to help shape conferencing, catering and café operations as part of a small Finance Team at the British Motor Museum.

Reporting directly to the Finance Manager the successful candidate’s main responsibility will be to provide timely management reports and analysis, through accurate processing of financial data, for the conference, catering and café operations in order to support strategic and operational decision making.

Once the successful candidate has a firm understanding of the processes and requirements of each department they will be empowered to suggest and make improvements to support departmental goals.

In a varied role that includes nominal journals, sales and purchase ledger processing, as well as cashbook reconciliations and stock control, a broad understanding of finance will be essential to ably support the team and meet wider finance requirements.

We are looking for someone who can work under their own initiative but wants to be part of and support our team.

MAIN DUTIES

• Provide timely and accurate monthly P&Ls to managers of Conferencing, Catering and Café, as well as Gift Shop and Archive.
• Responsible for accurate monthly food and liquor cost of sales calculations using information from invoices and stocktakes.
• Responsible for the correct reallocation of food costs between departments and income streams from maintained notional cost reports.
• Prepare updated monthly stocktake sheets for the Head Chef and Conference Operations Coordinator to complete food and liquor stocktakes.
• Ensure accurate input of stocktakes for stock control and cost of sales calculations.
• Maintain and provide managers with food and liquor gross profit margin information.
• Liaise with the Kitchen Team to obtain information for food costing from the catering system, stocktake updates and purchase orders.
• Responsible for catering cashbooks and monthly bank account reconciliations.
• Create and process nominal ledger journals including calculating accruals, adjustments and monthly nominal prepayment journals.
• Responsible for reconciliations of control, prepayment, deferred income and accrual accounts and movement of nominal ledger cumulative balances.
• Responsible for the setting up and adjusting of products on tills for all food and drink outlets.
• Ensure reconciliation of supplier statements at month and year end.
• Assist the Finance Team with the annual external audit.
• Complete monthly payment processing.
• Reallocate café hospitality receipts to departments.

OTHER DUTIES

• Actively and positively contribute to the success of the business in delivering your duties and any other business-related activities which may reasonably be requested.
• Take responsibility for your own health, safety and welfare, ensuring compliance with Trust’s Health and Safety policies, procedures and safe systems of work.
• Be responsible for your own behaviour and act in a manner that avoids and discourages any form of discrimination or harassment; to comply with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy.
• Undertake to familiarise yourself with the data protection procedures set down by the Company as a result of the General Data Protection Regulation.

SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES

• Minimum 3 years work within a finance department
• AAT Level 4 qualified or equivalent
• Excellent finance and administration skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Clear and confident communicator
• Collaborative and positive contribution to any team
• Work under own initiative
• Pro-active and self-motivated
• Good MS Excel skills

HOW TO APPLY
Please click here to apply via the Reed website.  


Inclusion and Diversity Statement

As an organisation the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce. We welcome applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.