Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant

Location: London, E14 9SH

Hours of work: 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Are you a finance professional with a passion for the Food & Beverage industry?

We're looking for a Management Accountant to join our UK & Ireland Controlling function at ISS, focusing specifically on supporting and reporting on our Food & Beverage operations.

This is a key role offering visibility across senior stakeholders, with the opportunity to directly impact financial performance, controls, and strategic decision-making in a high-paced commercial environment.

Job Description

As Management Accountant, you’ll support financial reporting, cost control, and risk management across multiple contracts within the Food & Beverage sector. Working closely with the Business Unit Controller, you'll help deliver timely and accurate financials, identify process improvements, and drive consistency across the finance function.

You will also provide commercial insights and value-added reporting to senior account leadership, supporting business reviews and contributing to ISS’s continued growth and service excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Own monthly management accounts across multiple profit centres.
• Complete month-end activities including accruals, prepayments, and revenue adjustments.
• Deliver high-quality balance sheet reconciliations and ensure compliance with controls.
• Support internal and external audits, including Financial Controls & Assurance reviews.
• Conduct variance analysis and investigate deviations from forecasts.
• Review and drive actions on aged receivables and open purchase orders.
• Partner with Key Account Managers and Finance Business Partners on reporting and reviews.
• Support fixed asset and working capital management.
• Ensure financial data integrity in line with UK&I and Group standards.

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Experience in a Management Accounting or Financial Controlling role.
• Ideally, experience in Food & Beverage, hospitality, or service-related sectors.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to work effectively with non-finance stakeholders.
• Excellent Excel and data interpretation skills.
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise in a fast-paced environment.
• Confident communicator with strong analytical and reporting capabilities.

The Company

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference. #ISSGreatPeople #ISSTalent #PeopleMakePlace

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

We are a Disability Confident Committed (Level 2) employer, proudly supporting and promoting inclusive hiring practices in line with the UK government’s Disability Confident scheme.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.

If you have any further queries regarding this role, please contact the Resourcing Team by emailing [email protected]