Finance Director

FS Partners is delighted to be partnering with an international, London-based restaurant group to appoint a Group Finance Director. This is a hands-on, high-impact role in a fast-moving, founder-led business that is scaling fast.

Our client operates a portfolio of casual and high-end restaurant brands, with an international estate. It's an entrepreneurial environment where finance sits right at the heart of decision-making, working closely with the Director on strategy and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the finance team, embedding strong processes and controls as the business scales
• Maintain tight financial control, with full ownership of P&L, balance sheet and cashflow, and all key accounts reconciled
• Lead year-end, auditors, statutory accounts, and tax, VAT and HMRC compliance, including hospitality-specific considerations
• Partner with the Director on cashflow, liquidity planning and financial strategy
• Own forward-looking financial models to support decisions across the group and new openings
• Lead board, investor and lender reporting, including presenting complex models and forecasts
• Manage banking relationships, debt facilities and covenant reporting
• Run the FP&A function: budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting across all sites and central costs
• Develop and track KPIs, and turn data into clear, actionable insight for operations, marketing and openings
• Support pricing, menu engineering and revenue optimisation
• Drive granular cost control with site teams, Heads of Department and the Head of Commercial
• Improve site performance through margin analysis, labour optimisation, TRONC oversight and KPI tracking
• Oversee key supplier contracts and procurement initiatives
• Support commercial decisions, including site selection, lease negotiations and investment cases
• Oversee CAPEX planning and pre-opening OPEX for a pipeline of new openings
• Own and improve the finance and operational tech stack.

About You

• Proven Finance Director experience in a multi-site hospitality or consumer-facing business
• ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
• A strong track record building complex financial models, cashflow forecasts and long-term plans
• Confident presenting to investors, lenders and boards
• Experience managing lender relationships, debt structures and covenants
• Strong commercial finance and FP&A capability
• Commercially minded, with the ability to translate numbers into clear, actionable insight
• A hands-on leader who's comfortable operating strategically and in the detail
• Experience supporting new openings and CAPEX-heavy growth in a scaling business
• A strong understanding of hospitality metrics, labour models and operational drivers
• Experience with finance and operational systems