Finance Manager - Retail (Investment)- 6m - 12m FTC - #1788187

Job Description

We are evoke, one of the world’s leading betting and gaming companies with internationally renowned brands, including William Hill, 888, and Mr Green.

We're looking to recruit a Finance Manager (Retail Investment) to be responsible for providing financial leadership across Retail operations, ensuring effective budgeting, cost control, shop performance review, and delivery of strategic initiatives, while acting as a key business partner to drive profitable growth.

This role is a 6 - 12 months' FTC to cover maternity leave.

What you will be doing:

• Manage the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes for Retail operations, ensuring alignment with strategic and financial targets.
• Oversee and control Overheads spend, ensuring costs are managed effectively and deliver value to the business.
• Review and challenge shop performance metrics, including profitability, contribution, and cost efficiency.
• Analyse actuals vs budget / forecast, providing insights on variances, risks, and opportunities to improve financial outcomes.
• Partner with operational and commercial teams to support shop portfolio reviews, including closures, refreshes, and investment decisions.
• Drive performance monitoring through meaningful reporting on key value drivers, revenue, and cost lines.
• Support business cases for operational initiatives, ensuring robust financial challenge and governance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of financial processes and reporting tools to enhance decision making across Retail.
  
  

Who we are looking for:

We are committed to responsible gambling, and we are looking for people who can support our ethos. To apply to this post, you will have:

• A Finance background and be a Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Excellent financial planning and analysis skills, with experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis with commercial acumen, with the ability to link operational performance to financial outcomes.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capabilities; experience with financial systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP, Power BI) is a plus.
• Stakeholder management and business partnering skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence at all levels with a good attention to detail. You'll be able to solve an array of problems and not be satisfied with a job half done.
  
  

What we offer:

Our roles offer more than just a job, you’ll become part of the evoke family! We have created an environment where our people can thrive. Check out some of the fantastic benefits on offer:

• Family Support Industry-leading maternity and paternity leave and paid time off if you have caring responsibilities.
• Perks and discounts- Discounts at a range of high-street retailers
• Financial compensation, pension, and bonus schemes.
• Health & wellbeing Tools and services to help support your well-being, including support with mental health and financial education. You will also have access to gym discounts and our cycle to work scheme.
• Hybrid working Our employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some face-to-face collaborative team time - and the chance for a coffee and a catch-up!
  
  

More about evoke:

We’re a business that embraces change and progress. The power behind big name brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green, evoke is the new name for 888 Holdings. Marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business, there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us as we accelerate our journey to bring even greater delight to our customers with world-class betting and gaming experiences. That’s the future. That’s evoke.

At evoke, you’ll benefit from flexibility and a culture built on trust. We’ll give you the space to be yourself and the tools you need to protect our customers while they play. We’ll invest in your future to help you develop your unique strengths and build a career that’s right for you.

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At evoke, we prioritise diversity, equity, and inclusion for the benefit of our company, employees, and communities. We foster a welcoming and safe workplace that values all forms of diversity and provides opportunities for growth.

Sound good? Then you belong at our place! The first step in the recruitment process is kickstarting your application, followed by an initial screening call and an interview stage.

Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke Family!

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