Pub Finance & Expenses Team Leader (12 Month FTC)

As a 12 month FTC Pub Finance and Expenses Team Leader you will have the flexibility to work from home up to 50% of your working week and will work within a great team in our Finance Centre of Excellence. In your role, you will support the Pub Finance team with reconciliations of revenue and banking across our managed pub estate circa of 1650 pubs. You will also manage all administrative tasks supporting our expenses system Concur.

You will be line managing a small number of Pub Finance Assistants, and report to the Pub Finance Manager, living and breathing Greene King’s values and behaviours.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 225-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

• Responsibility for, and line management of a small number of the Pub Finance team who support and review the end to end expenditure of Pubs, including expenses submitted/claimed through Concur Request and Concur Expense
• Support the Pub Finance Manager and Pub Finance & Expenses Team Leader in reconciliation of revenue, banking’s, and expenditure claims, ensuring General Manager compliance with VAT regulations and relevant policies and procedures
• Working alongside the Pub Finance & Expenses Team Leader and Pub Finance manager to ensure a first-rate customer service to our General Managers, suppliers and internal stakeholders, e.g. audit.
• Liaise with R2R teams to ensure that Pub Finance outputs are in line with expectation, supporting high integrity balance sheet reconciliations
• Be one of the main business contacts for, and maintain strong relationships with, third party suppliers, e.g. SAP Concur, and taking a lead on technical change/assistance with IT.
• Ensuring users of key systems have access to quality training and support material, including policy changes and support the team in providing insightful reports to the business, for example trend analysis of Concur spend.
• Work alongside our Tax team to ensure compliance with relevant HMRC VAT and PAYE legislation, systematically identifying and mitigating high risk areas
• Continually look to improve Pub Finance processes, working alongside the wider business to support business changes and projects.

• 5+ years working in a finance team, preferably in a senior administration / team leader role
• Confident line manager (some line management experience preferred)
• The ability to use Excel to an advanced level
• Proactive approach to identifying solutions to problems
• Ability to present/explain financial information in a way that the intended recipient can understand
• Understanding & working knowledge of an integrated accounting package.
• Strong customer service ethos
• Knowledge of the retail and hospitality industry, and experience working in a large company, is an advantage

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could receive £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…