Finance executive rebuilding finance, controls, and reporting for a multi-location food-service business. Driving profitability, forecasting, cash management, and commercial decisions.
Responsibilities
Lead the complete finance function through a hands-on transition
Build accurate, controlled financial reporting and protect cash and payroll
Own budgets, rolling forecasts, and cash planning
Make profitability visible by location, brand, channel, and product
Evaluate pricing, promotions, and investment decisions with real business cases
Redesign the finance team's structure, systems, and controls
Eventually build a successor
Take over the finance function and turn finance into a real-time engine for business decisions
Option to stay embedded, build a successor, or expand into wider work across the portfolio once operations are stable
Requirements
Significant senior finance leadership experience, ideally at CFO level
A track record improving profitability, forecasting, and cash management
Strong commercial instincts — pricing, unit economics, investment analysis
Advanced, hands-on use of AI and modern finance tools
Professional finance/accounting qualification strongly preferred
Experience inside a complex, multi-location hospitality, retail, or restaurant business
Client-facing advisory or consulting experience
History of challenging executives with hard evidence, not just opinions
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