Whitbread

Technoogy Finance Manager

Whitbread  •  England, GB (Hybrid)  •  7 hours ago
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Job Description

Title: Technology Finance Manager

Location: Dunstable LU5

Hybrid working 3 days a week in the office

If you enjoy combining commercial finance with Technology and want to influence significant investment decisions, this is an opportunity to make a real impact. As a Technology Finance Business Partner, you’ll work alongside Senior Technology stakeholders, turning complex activity into clear financial insight and helping ensure investment delivers value. You’ll provide challenge and guidance on budgets, forecasts and financial risks, while leading key reporting, project prioritisation and also accounting and audit process. The role combines commercial business partnering with strong financial control, with responsibility spanning planning and forecasting, project and investment governance, accounting, reporting and audit.

What you'll be doing

  • Partner with Technology teams, providing commercial challenge, financial insight and guidance to support investment decisions and business cases.
  • Lead budgeting, forecasting and month-end reporting, ensuring accurate and timely financial information across Technology cost centres and projects.
  • Manage financial governance across Capex, Revex and Opex, including depreciation, capitalisation and balance sheet integrity.
  • Lead key Technology finance processes, including central reporting, project prioritisation, R&D tax claim, identifying risks, opportunities and cost efficiencies.
  • Build strong relationships across Technology, Finance and Procurement, driving improvements to financial controls, processes and reporting while supporting the wider Technology Finance team.

What you’ll need to bring

  • A CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualification, with strong management accounting and month-end reporting experience.
  • Strong business partnering skills at Senior Level, with the confidence to challenge and influence non-finance stakeholders and support effective decision-making.
  • Strong knowledge of capitalisation, depreciation and asset accounting, including accounting for intangible assets.
  • Proven experience in project accounting within a large organisation, ideally supporting multiple projects and significant investment.
  • Excellent Excel, analytical and communication skills, with strong attention to detail, a proactive approach and a good understanding of financial controls, risk management and compliance.
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About Whitbread

Whitbread PLC is the owner of the UK’s favourite hotel chain, Premier Inn, as well as restaurant brands, Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table, Bar + Block and Cookhouse and Pub.

Whitbread employs more than 35,000 people in more than 1,200 Premier Inn hotels and restaurants across the UK and Germany, serving over five million customers every month.

At Whitbread we are committed to being a force for good in the communities in which we operate. Our Sustainability programme, ‘Force for Good’ is focused on enabling people to live and work well and is built around three pillars of Opportunity, Community and Responsibility.

Whitbread PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100. It is also a member of the FTSE4Good Index.

Industry
Travel & Hospitality
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Houghton Regis, Dunstable, GB
Year Founded
1742
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