Finance Manager, Taster
French & English Speaker
Platform of digital food brands
Job no longer available
Platform of digital food brands
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the world's largest restaurant group through a powerful platform of digital food brands.
Role
Who you are
- You speak French and English at excellent professional level so that you can communicate with both the UK and France based teams on a daily basis
- You combine industry experience from a fast-paced scale-up environment, and strong accountancy technical knowledge
- You are a Qualified Accountant, with at least one year of post-qualified experience, preferably in a Finance Management role
- You are used to operating in an efficient month-end close cycle and consolidating multiple entities’ results
- You have a strong process-improvement mindset, with a bias toward automation / use of SaaS tools to drive continuous improvement
- You are able to bring the best out of a team and work collaboratively
What the job involves
- Taster is looking for a Finance Manager to join the team, reporting into our Head of Finance
- You’ll be involved in the management of the accounting operations across our four territories, including responsibility for Group Management & Statutory accounts, building & improving our financial control environment, and overseeing day-to-day Finance Operations
- You can operate strategically – directing the team and improving processes to deliver in a fast-moving environment - you can also deliver operationally in the context of a small team
- Responsibility for producing the monthly management accounts, including the subsidiary ledgers and Group consolidation
- Responsibility for Group Overheads reporting
- Responsibility for the Annual French Statutory Accounts and Audits, working with outsourced accounting firms in each country where necessary
- Responsibility for the Monthly French VAT reporting
- Maintaining adequate financial controls across the Group, with a continuous improvement approach suitable for a fast-growth business
- Oversee the use of the financial systems infrastructure, ensuring it is fit for purpose and continually adapting & evolving to meet the needs of the business
- Supporting our Head of Finance in having rigorous Balance Sheet controls
- Oversight of the fortnightly Invoicing and Payment process to our kitchen partners
- Responsibility for the Supply Chain Accounts Receivable procedures
- Supporting our Accounts Payable administrator in managing payment runs and business card expenses, including handling supplier queries
- Support on improving the P2P cycle including approvals, controls and reporting to ensure strong governance, cost control and cash management
- Reporting on and management of weekly cashflow, and involvement in Treasury & Working Capital management to optimise liquidity & minimise risk
- Responsible for Group tax management, including meeting filing obligations and ensuring tax optimisation between territories
- Working with key internal and external stakeholders across the business
Salary benchmarks
Our take
VC investment has been pouring into food delivery startups over recent years, as the restaurant industry’s fastest-growing market saw a doubling down on innovation. This has spelt trouble for smaller independent locales struggling to digitally transform, and the continued rise of dark kitchens (where delivery capacity, usually for chain brands, is substantially expanded at a fraction of the overhead) is only making this worse. Taster might prove a welcome compromise.
The company partners with restaurants to plug their brands into their existing kitchens. It means that restaurants can earn (potentially) an additional £5,000 - £25,000 per week.
Taster currently has 5 brands. By avoiding the need to build kitchens, the company can enter new cities much quicker and harness the local market knowledge of restaurant owners. They now have a vast range of digital restaurants across 70 cities, and have delivered millions of meals.
The company has won impressive VC funding to help it expand its already substantial European presence. Taster is a welcome and exciting development in this highly lucrative market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$0.6m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$37m
SERIES B
Total funding: $50.7m
Company benefits
- Private healthcare
- Choice of Mac or PC
- Flexible work environment
- Regular team events
- Quarterly bonuses
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Anton Soulier
(Founder & CEO)Previously a founder at Nunée desserts. Went on to become the Deputy General Manager, France for Deliveroo.
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