About the Role
The Finance Manager – Cinemas Business Partnering acts as a strategic finance partner to Cinemas leadership and operations teams across multiple markets. The role transforms financial and operational data into actionable insights, supports budgeting, forecasting, performance reviews, and investment decisions, while leading F&B financial performance, margin management, and commercial decision support.
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Responsibilities
- Partner with Cinemas operations and commercial teams to evaluate site and portfolio performance, lead performance reviews, and provide clear variance analysis and recommended actions.
- Lead budgeting, rolling forecasts, financial consolidation, and annual operating plans across admissions, F&B, other revenues, and operating costs.
- Develop KPI dashboards and management reporting to provide clear insights into key financial and operational business drivers.
- Support financial evaluations and business cases for new cinema openings, refurbishments, capital investments, and strategic initiatives.
- Act as the lead finance partner for F&B/Concessions, managing P&L performance, margins, COGS, wastage, product mix, and other key performance drivers.
- Provide financial analysis and commercial recommendations for F&B pricing, menu changes, promotions, new product launches, and operational initiatives.
- Partner with Procurement, Supply Chain, Pricing, Marketing, country finance teams, and other stakeholders to identify risks, opportunities, and improve commercial performance.
- Ensure consistent reporting and forecasting across markets while supporting cost optimization, new revenue streams, market expansion, and ad-hoc strategic projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a relevant discipline.
- 6–8 years of progressive finance experience, including at least 3 years in FP&A or commercial business partnering.
- Experience partnering with operations in a multi-site consumer business such as cinema, leisure, retail, F&B, or hospitality; F&B margin or concessions experience is strongly preferred.
- Proven experience managing budgets, forecasts, financial analysis, investment appraisal, and business cases.
- Strong commercial acumen, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and present recommendations to senior leadership.
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; experience with BI tools such as Power BI and multi-country operations is an advantage.
