KERB are looking for a commercially minded Group Head of Finance to help shape the next phase of our growth.
Working closely with the Finance Director, CEO and leadership team, you’ll play a key role in driving commercial performance, supporting data-led decision making, and helping to scale a fast-growing hospitality and events business.
You’ll bring strong financial planning & analysis (FP&A) capability, using insight to drive revenue growth, margin improvement, and smarter decision-making across the business. Alongside this, you’ll lead on process improvement, systems optimisation, and further developing a finance function that’s fit for scale.
This is a hands-on role, from financial reporting and cashflow forecasting to audit and controls but your impact will come from how you partner and influence successfully. You’ll act as a trusted partner to senior leadership, driving both performance and profitability.
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Partner with the FD, CEO and leadership team on key strategic and operational projects
- Develop commercial insight and data analysis to support revenue growth, margin improvement and cost control
- Act as a strategic business partner to non-finance teams to drive performance
- Identify and implement improvements to processes and controls
- Act as the subject matter expert for finance systems
- Ensure reporting is accurate, timely and provides clear insight to support decision-making
- Own and lead the annual budgeting process, partnering with stakeholders across the business
- Manage and maintain cashflow forecasting and projections
- Oversee the preparation of consolidated month-end and year-end financial statements
- Lead the Group’s annual audit process
- Oversee the day-to-day financial operations across the Group and its divisions
- Support and contribute to the Group’s overall tax strategy
- Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing finance team
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Fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA or ACCA)
- Strong ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels
- A proactive, hands-on approach with a natural problem-solving mindset
- A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on efficiency and better ways of working
- High levels of organisation, reliability, and attention to detail
- Ability to take initiative, think strategically, and drive positive change
- Strong leadership skills and experience managing and developing teams
- Experience supporting business growth and organisational change (highly desirable)
- Experience within leisure, hospitality, or events sectors would be advantageous
- Proficient in using finance systems, more specifically SAP Concur
- Experience with system implementations or upgrades is a plus
- Willingness to be hands-on and adaptable, contributing beyond your core remit when needed
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Generous F&B discount across KERB food and drinks
- 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays) + birthday day off
- Health Cash Plan (Medicash)
- Personal Wellbeing Allowance (Juno)
- CODE App Membership
- Private Medical Insurance (Vitality)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Cycle To Work scheme
- Annual season ticket loan
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave after 2 years
- A London Living Wage and Disability Confident Committed employer
- A Best Companies accredited employer
Diversity & Inclusion
As part of our values, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of inclusivity at KERB. We actively celebrate our teams’ different abilities, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Everyone, from any background, is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us. Applicants are encouraged to share with our People Team any accommodations or reasonable adjustments required during the recruitment process.
KERB is a business that powers other businesses. We focus on the incubation and growth of innovative, independent food businesses. We run brilliant street food markets, workshops, consultancy, bars, food halls in Central London and across the US and Germany and have developed a growing, successful corporate catering company, KERB Events Limited.
We are a food-obsessed and people-first company who believes that everyone with a bit of spark should have the opportunity to ignite it. Be it food entrepreneurs or team members, our mission is to create opportunity and joy through great food, from the KERB up.
