Senior Sous Chef, Streatham, London SW16

Salary £45,000 per year

40-45 hours per week

Kitchen Trading hours:  Tuesday – Sunday – 9am – 10pm

Optional – Accommodation available which is a 2-bedroom flat above the restaurant.  Rent £500 per month with bills included.

Fantastic opportunity for experienced Sous Chef to work alongside the Executive Chef who floats between sites.  This is an established local modern, European fusion restaurant based on Streatham high street, which is part of a successful restaurant group.  The restaurant is part of a successful, growing, privately owned restaurant group and serves lunch and dinner.

You will be an effective leader and in oversee a brigade consisting of Kitchen staff: a Sous Chef, a CDP and a KP.  You must ensure that there is 2 – 4 people in the kitchen during each service, according to which days are the busiest, and the current menus style is classic Italian /Mediterranean food plus some classics like Steak and Sunday roast. 

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the delivery of consistent, high quality and innovative dishes and specials.
• Menu development, working closely with the owners and Executives Chef.
• Support the management of the overall kitchen operation, including prep schedules, stock control, budgeting and maintenance.
• Day to day management of the kitchen team.

Requirements:

• Experience working in a Senior Sous or Head Chef role.
• Experience cooking Italian cuisine essential.
• Strong awareness of trends and seasonal produce.
• Previous experience managing, training and motivating a kitchen brigade.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Knowledge of health & safety, compliance and procedures.

Financial Analyst

Hybrid – 3 days from office in London SW1, 2 days from home.

Salary:  £45,000 p.a.

Benefits include generous bonus scheme, 25 days holiday, medical insurance, pension scheme and employee discounts.

Successful hospitality group requires ACCA or CIMA qualified financial analyst to work from their London office supporting commercial analysis and performance tracking.   This position will report into the Head of Finance, this would suit an experienced analyst looking to help drive continued growth cross-departmentally in a fast moving and innovative company. As this position is newly created, there will be the opportunity to help develop the direction of the commercial finance team and contribute directly to the success of the company. The successful candidate should demonstrate outstanding numerical and analytical skills, as well as have a passion for the industry and finance.

Duties include:-

• Working with the accounts team to deliver analysis on period end statements against budget and projection
• Regularly liaising with budget holders, sharing financial tracking and providing performance vs budget and projection
• Assisting in the production of monthly internal and Board financial reports
• Producing insightful analysis that helps to drive business performance
• Assisting in development of all budgets and forecasts, working across departments to ensure accuracy and appropriate resource allocation
• Collaborating with the revenue and new product teams to control margins and ensure profitability
• Working alongside the IT team to transfer regular reporting into Power BI.
• Identifying and implementing improvements to efficiency and controls across departments

Requirements:

• Qualified accountant – ACCA / CIMA or equivalent
• Experience analysing complex data sets and delivering recommendations to senior leadership
• Strong Microsoft Excel knowledge [required]
• Ability to work under pressure and meet targets and deadlines
• Ability to work effectively with minimal management guidance or supervision
• The energy and self-motivation to work within a rapidly growing business that is constantly evolving with changing priorities
• Good organisation skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

IT Project Manager, London

£45,000 to £50,000 per annum

4 month contract

Successful restaurant group requires experienced IT Project Manager with experience in delivering Digital Transformation projects, including replacing legacy systems with Power Platform solutions, rolling out Power BI reporting and a new Master Data Management portal for initial 4 month contract working at their London office in SW1.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing project backlogs and phase planning
• Hands on approach to user stories and process mapping
• Tracking progress against the project roadmap and timelines
• Managing teams and delivery partners to meet milestones on a day-to-day basis
• Setting up risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies log to mitigate against risks and issues
• Coordinating change with Product Owners and business stakeholders
• Weekly and monthly reporting on programme status
• Deployment (in line with the company’s technical change policies)
• Change management and Release planning 
• Developing plans to transition into Run and Operation phase
• Build and deploy operational Pilot services where required

this is the ideal candidate

• Be able to work 4 days a week in the Victoria office
• Have experience in hospitality or retail
• Experienced and capable of working with executives

Legal Counsel with fluent German

£85,000 to £90,000 p.a. + Bonus (£100K package) + excellent benefits.

London – Hybrid working available.

Our client is a global research and publications company that is looking for a Legal Counsel with fluent German to become trusted legal partner to their Sales team, collaborating with teams to deliver impactful legal support that makes a difference.  The role is hybrid from the London office.

The team provides legal support in the areas of sales, product development, technology, publishing and ethics, procurement, litigation, compliance and acquisitions.  They operate in sub-teams, guiding different business areas and collaborate across teams to support each other’s areas of expertise.  They partner with organisations to deliver knowledgeable and sound legal expertise.

Responsibilities:

• As the Legal Counsel you will provide legal support and guidance to the Sales teams for both the corporate and academic markets.
• Collaborate closely with the contracts manager who operates between the sales support teams and legal team.
• Provide advice and expertise for commercial transactions by partnering directly with the company’s customers.
• Provide support to the Sales group for transactional matters including legal advice, contract negotiation and drafting.
• Support strategies, templates, training and policies by coordinating and assisting on roll-outs and implementations.
• Provide best in practice professional legal services to the organisation to ensure deliver an impactful service.
• Become a trusted business partner to the stakeholder management team by building successful and collaborative relationships.
• Be an advocate for the team by driving and endorsing collaboration, open communication and impactful change.

Requirements:

• Fluent English and German.
• Law degree.
• c3 years full time work experience following degree.
• Experience supporting commercial contracting.
• Experience working with commercial teams essential.
• Experience working in a global-matrix environment.
• Knowledge of Intellectual Property (IP).

Case Manager – Probate Genealogy, Essex

Salary – £50,000 p.a. +

Remote working available. 

Benefits include private healthcare and cash plan, enhanced mat/pat leave, above statutory holidays plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days.

Our client is a well-established probate research and genealogy company, with over 50 years industry experience, that is looking to grow its team.

We are looking for candidates with a previous background in probate genealogy to join the team.  Please note that the company does not set case completion targets.

Your daily duties will be :

• Undertaking research to source beneficiaries and produce family trees,
• Case management.
• Making contact with beneficiaries and solicitors via phone and letter.
• Arranging for field agents to visit beneficiaries.
• Review cases with senior management.
• Maintain case files in an orderly manner and file correctly in relevant cabinets.

Skills Required:

• Experience as a Probate Genealogy Case Manager / proven family tree research skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload.
• Ability and experience in liaising with clients, solicitors, and members of the public in a courteous manner.

Transactional Finance Manager – £65,000 p.a.

London SW1

Bonus of up to £10,000 p.a. available.

Benefits include Private Medical, Life Insurance, Pension, Dental, Critical illness cover, Income protection due to sickness, Food Allowance and discounted products.

Highly successful hospitality group founded almost 30 years ago requires Transactional Finance Manager to support the Financial Controller in day-to-day accounting duties with a focus on Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR), together with monthly and yearly accounting duties.  You will be responsible for managing 3 transactional accounts staff and previous hospitality background is desirable but not essential.  Responsibilities include:-

• Managing, developing, and supervising 3 transactional accounts staff.
• Maintaining the Account Payable and Accounts Receivable ledgers, reviewed alongside the Financial Controller a monthly basis.
• Develop and provide monthly reporting on expense management, aged receivables and overdue payables.
• Provide input on monthly cash flow forecasting, together with projected cash outflows.
• Maintaining accurate records, controlling reports and ensuring clean audit trails for the year-end financial audit.
• Overseeing all purchase invoices and expenses posting.
• Being the first contact for transactional queries from suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Reviewing and approving payment runs.
• Overseeing supplier statements, account customers and bank reconciliations at month-end.
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations, to be reviewed monthly alongside the Financial Controller.
• Preparing and filing quarterly VAT returns.
• Creating and maintaining manuals for financial procedures.
• Supporting the implementation of ERP upgrade from Microsoft Navision to Microsoft Dynamics Business Central.
• Developing the Accounts Receivable function by designing and continuously improving processes to facilitate the growth of the franchise business.

Requirements:

• Previous transactional financial experience including strong AP and AR experience.
• Hospitality company experience ideal but not essential.
• Ability to deal with large datasets and multiple cost centres.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good communication skills.
• High degree of accuracy.

Executive Assistant

Hybrid from London N1 (at least once a week in the office)

£60,000 to £65,000 p.a.

Company Shares Available.

Executive Assistant required with Property / Real Estate background and previous Executive level experience to provide a full PA service to 2 Directors and a small team, assist with projects and handle personal matters for 2 Senior Directors. The individual must be willing to travel overnight both UK and Abroad for mixed length business trips to support the Directors and be flexible over urgent weekend and evening demands that may arise, although seldom do. The role will require the individual to work in the office near Old Street at least once a week but being flexible on working location is important.

This is an exciting opportunity to for growth and expansion of the Company and increasing responsibility and opportunity as a consequence.

Day to Day duties include: –

• Reporting to the 2 company owners and management team once a fortnight with up-to-date financial figures as requested.
• Liaising with Company accountants.
• Preparing statistical analyses as requested.
• Checking and verification of accounts related queries.
• Bank account/financial management as required.
• Advising and assisting the Founder and TEA staff on any issues as required
• Diary management, meeting co-ordination, minuting meetings.
• Arranging travel which may also require you to attend business trips alongside the 2 main Directors.
• Help to research, manage and organise specific projects for the Directors.
• To assist the Senior Management team with organising meetings and video conferences, to prepare meeting agendas, attend meetings and take minutes and other miscellaneous duties as required.
• Arrange travel and prepare travel packs.
• Assist with further recruitment and personnel management as required.
• Assist with insurance policy renewals and organising quarterly team events including Christmas parties etc.
• Provide general administration support and to assist with any other additional duties appropriate to the post as requested by the Founder or the Senior Management team.
• Liaise with tenants of commercially rented properties.
• Reconciliation of finances, issue of invoices etc
• Manage appointments and ad-hoc engagements and additional work, including personal matters for the 2 company owners.
• Liaise via WhatsApp.

Essential Skills required:

• Experienced Executive Assistant at Senior Director level.
• Previous experience within either a Property Management/Real Estate or TV Production company.
• Willingness to travel on business trips both in the UK and abroad when required.
• Good experience of minuting meetings, problem solving and communicating at all levels.

Commercial Property Underwriter

Hybridfrom Basildon

1 to 2 days in the office, 3 to 4 days from home.

Salary: £65,000 to £70,000 p.a. + bonus + benefits including share options and 25 days holiday.

Fantastic opportunity for experienced Commercial Property Underwriter to work for this established underwriting group at their offices in the Basildon / Bromley area.  The group is part of a global insurance group and is an approved Lloyds of London cover holder.

Duties:-

• Managing a mixed property portfolio.
• Pro-actively managing renewals.
• Managing new business quotes.
• Underwriting residential and commercial property/real estate risks within guidelines.
• Negotiate and define specific terms of insurance policies with brokers and policyholders.
• Making accurate and detailed records of underwritten policies.
• Liaising with key stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Ensuring all documentations and systems are kept up to date and provided to supporting brokers in a timely manner.
• Actively engaging with brokers to ensure the company is their first port of call on new business enquiries.
• Ensuring SLA’s are met and timely issuance of documentation.
• Reviewing applications for compliance and adherence.
• Researching background information on clients.
• Collaborate with specialists to gather relevant information and opinions.
• Weigh loss exposure and determine underwriting alternatives.
• Draw up competitive quotes.

Full funding available for any relevant professional qualifications taken and ongoing personal development.

Requirements:-

• Commercial Property Underwriting experience.
• Experience with renewals and new business.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Analytical.

Deputy General Manager

Southbank, London SE1

Salary: £39,000 per annum

Bonus scheme:

After completing your probation period, you will be entitled to the following bonus scheme paid half in year one and half in year two: –

• Sales Budget achieved or exceeded: Bonus of 5% of salary.
• GOP Budget achieved or exceeded: Bonus of 5% of salary.

There is also a quarterly Bonus based on restaurant audits where you can earn up to £2,000 per year.

Benefits:  include pension and private medical insurance.

Our client is a successful restaurant group that is looking for an experienced Deputy General Manager for their most successful site in Southbank.  You must have experience of managing a high turnover, full-service restaurant and managing a large team as this site has a team of around 40 part time and full-time staff.  You will be working alongside the General Manager together with a Restaurant Manager to ensure the site continues to provide the excellent front of house service that is has a reputation for, whilst also overseeing food quality, managing financials including labour budgeting, rota planning according to forecast, cost control, profit and loss and stock management.  Other key aspects are advising customers on menu choices, quality control and health and safety.

Responsibilities for Deputy General Manager:

• Managing customer relations, ensuring they exceed customer expectations.

• Assisting with recruitment, training and mentoring of staff.

• Organising staff rota according to needs of the business.

• Ordering stock and managing supplier relationships.

• Ensuring budgets and maintained and results achieved.

• Delivering team objectives and motivating the team to achieve them.

• Delegating responsibilities effectively.

• Establishing great positive working environment.

• Solving problems before they occur and quick thinking.

You will be required to work up to 48 hours per week in this busy restaurant.

Skills Required for Deputy General Manager:

• Previous experience working as a Deputy General Manager within a high-volume, high-street restaurant chain.

• Good team management experience.

• An excellent history of exceeding customer service expectations.

• Working as a team and on own initiative, being proactive.

General Manager

Cambridge

Salary Package: c£50,000 p.a.

Basic £38,000 p.a. but if all KPIs are achieved you will receive a bonus of up to 50% of salary.

Additional Benefits include Private Medical, Life Insurance, Pension, Dental, Critical illness cover, Income protection due to sickness, Food Allowance and discounted products.

Opening hours of site:  Monday – Sunday – 11am – 10pm

Shifts:  45 hour week, mainly mornings as 2pm is their busy time.  Will include 1-2 evenings per week including Thursday and 1-2 weekend shifts per month.

Experienced General Manager needed for this highly successful restaurant group working at their site in Cambridge which has a weekly turnover of £30K. You will be managing a team of 12, be responsible for the smooth running of the service and will play a key role in maintaining the venues reputation and driving its success by ensuring superb customer services and food quality control.  Therefore good financial and staff management skills within a busy restaurant / café environment is essential.

Duties:

• Building a robust team environment and shop success through proactive succession planning, development and recruitment, ensuring consistency for key roles.
• Ensuring every member of the shop team have individual development plans; ensuring these plans are documented and followed through (either personally or via the Kitchen/Service Manager).
• Constantly observing the shop from a customer perspective, challenging the management team to do the same.
• Ensuring that all Health & Safety and Food Safety practices adhere to the current legislation and standards.
• Ensure EHO 5 stars are achieved.
• Having a strategic sales growth plan in place (utilising marketing initiatives where appropriate) to drive business.
• Fully understanding of your annual sales profile; plan and forecast to maximise sales opportunities.
• Forecasting labour management intelligently to drive sales.

Requirements:

• Experience in managing a busy restaurant or café environment.
• Good experience in staff and financial management including managing rotas and P&L.
• Excellent stock management experience with an understanding of waste control.