Jobs at Little Kitchen Help Ltd

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Executive Management Team to provide high level financial insight and support to optimise the Company's performance and profitability and enable achievement of key strategic objectives.
• Together with the finance team, ensure accurate and timely monthly management accounts and reports are prepared and filed to EMEA set timelines.
• Partner with Heads of Department, providing comprehensive management information to enable improved performance and growth.
• Develop and continuously review appropriate reports to assist the Company's meeting of its financial targets and objectives.
• Prepare the annual budget and review on a quarterly basis providing updated forecasts
• Identify, implement, and champion initiatives to deliver process efficiencies.
• Manage all financial reporting including annual Company Audit, Pension Audit and PSRA Audit, Taxation and Statutory regulatory requirements.
• Lead, motivate and coach all members of the Finance Team.
• Work collaboratively with other departments to ensure excellent service.

Experience & Skills

• At least 5 years of industry experience in a similar role.
• Graduate level qualifications and a recognized professional accountancy qualification.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to draw insight from data to communicate financial issues to stakeholders.
• Stakeholder management skills, and experience of working with stakeholders to develop strong financial understanding across the Company.
• Driven to continuously improve ways of working.

Personal Attributes/Skills

• High level of personal integrity, ethical and professional standards.
• Excellent attention to detail whilst also able to take a strategic view.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Collaborative working style.

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Your responsibilities will include:

• To be highly visible at key operational times to ensure the drive and enhancement of the customer experience
• Maintain staff focus on ‘the Customer’s need’, individualising and personalising service where possible and encouraging staff initiative
• Development and implementation of customer service plans that support the maintaining and continued high performance growth of our customer NPS
• Ownership of the full in stay and post stay customer service lifecycle, continually reviewing where improvements can be made and following up on customer feedback and addressing service gaps
• Working with the General Manager's to ensure the brand service standards are routinely reviewed against adoption and delivery metrics
• Ensure the highest cleanliness standards across all hotel areas
• Collaborate with Hotel Manager and Departmental Head's to support in following up customer lead opportunities and actively grow the business
• Work with Cluster HOD’s to ensure that teams are upskilled and multiskilled in line with business requirements
• Work with the Cluster HOD’s to translate annual strategic business plans into considered departmental scorecard targets and associated activity plans
• Analysis of daily / weekly payroll costs in accordance with forecasted and materialised revenue levels to ensure optimal staffing deployments are managed with overspend corrected within the same trading period
• To consistently conduct time in motion studies across all departments in accordance with technology and process adoption identifying incremental efficiencies
• Ensure effective holiday/sickness/absence management

The Person

This is a highly visible role and as the daily face of the operation you will be responsible for overseeing the continual development and delivery of the Apex guest journey, the brand standards and our team culture.

With a passion for customer satisfaction you will be proactive, show initiative and also be able to demonstrate leadership achievements. You will have evidence of motivating and developing department managers and be flexible on working hours. You will see this opportunity as a fantastic platform for the grounding required to move into your first General Manager position.

You will:

• Have the ability to maintain and enhance a guest and team centric culture
• Communicate effectively at all levels both verbally and in writing
• Influence and inspire confidence
• Imbue a coaching, supporting and challenging mentality that delivers operational results
• Build effective and productive relationships (internal & external)
• Create an open environment
• Identify and manage best resources to achieve targets
• Translate strategies into practical plans