Part Time Cafe jobs in East London

We are looking for a hands-on, commercially minded Management Accountant to support TRADE’s multi-site café operation. This is a practical role for someone who enjoys getting into the detail, improving reporting, and turning numbers into clear actions for operations. You will help us tighten our month-end process, improve forecasting, and build consistent performance visibility across sites.

This role suits someone who has worked in hospitality, retail, multi-site, or another fast-moving operational business.

Key responsibilities

Management accounts and month-end

• Prepare or oversee monthly management accounts with clear commentary (site and group level)
• Produce monthly P&Ls by site, with analysis of key drivers and variances vs budget and prior periods
• Ensure proper accruals/prepayments and clean, consistent coding
• Maintain simple, reliable balance sheet reconciliations relevant to management reporting

Performance reporting

• Build and maintain KPI reporting for the business, including:
• Sales, covers, average spend, product mix
• Gross margin, stock variance, wastage
• Labour hours, labour %, rota performance
• Overheads and controllable costs
• Provide clear insight on what is driving performance and what actions to take

Budgeting, forecasting, and cash

• Support annual budgeting and rolling forecasts (group and site level)
• Help model pricing changes, margin impacts, labour planning, and new initiatives
• Assist with cashflow forecasting and short-term cash visibility
• Support scenario modelling for growth, capex, and investment decisions

Systems and process improvement

• Improve month-end timetables and reporting consistency
• Help integrate operational data from EPOS, stock, rota, and invoice systems into simple reports
• Recommend and implement controls that reduce leakage (stock, labour, purchasing)
• Create templates that make performance easier to understand for non-finance stakeholders

Stakeholder support

• Work closely with operations to explain results and agree corrective actions
• Support the MD/Founders with ad hoc analysis and decision support
• Liaise with external accountants/bookkeepers as required to ensure smooth close

What we are looking for

Essential

• Proven experience producing management accounts and performance reporting
• Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills (comfortable with models, pivots, lookups, clean templates)
• Commercial mindset: able to link financials to operational reality
• Confident communicating with non-finance teams and keeping things practical
• Reliable, organised, and able to work independently with limited supervision

Nice to have

• Experience in hospitality, retail, FMCG, or multi-site operations
• Familiarity with EPOS/stock/rota platforms and pulling useful data from them
• Part-qualified or qualified (AAT/CIMA/ACCA/ACA), but experience and capability matter most
• Comfort with improving processes and building lightweight reporting packs

Working style and expectations

• Part-time, flexible working pattern (agreed schedule each week)
• Hybrid: some on-site time helpful initially, then can be mostly remote if output is strong
• Clear deliverables and deadlines, with a focus on accuracy and useful insight

Key deliverables

• Monthly management accounts and a short commentary pack
• Site-level KPI dashboard updated monthly (or weekly if appropriate)
• Forecast and cash visibility updated on an agreed cadence
• A gradually improving month-end process that gets faster, cleaner, and more consistent

What we offer

• A practical, high-trust role with real influence on performance
• Flexible part-time structure
• Opportunity to shape reporting and improve finance foundations in a growing operator

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £140.00-£160.00 per day

Expected hours: 16 per week

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Flexitime

Experience:

• Management Accounting: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person