Arcade
Financial Analyst

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Arcade London - Turn financial data into commercial insight that drives performance and profitability across our venues!
About The Role
Arcade is looking for a commercially minded Finance Analyst to help turn financial and operational data into meaningful actions that improve performance across our growing group of hospitality venues. You’ll be joining a fast-paced, multi-site hospitality business where Finance works closely with operational teams and has a genuine influence on commercial decisions. The role will be based in our Support Office, with regular visits to our venues.
Reporting to the Commercial Finance Manager, you’ll work closely with Operations, Marketing and Sales to understand what is driving performance across our sites. You’ll analyse sales, covers, spend per head, margins, labour and overheads, identifying risks, highlighting opportunities and helping teams make better commercial decisions.
This is a business-facing role for someone who wants to do more than report historical numbers. You’ll explain what is happening, uncover why it is happening and recommend what the business should do next.
Key Responsibilities
- Producing daily, weekly and monthly trading reports
- Building performance dashboards for sites and senior leadership
- Analysing sales, gross margin, labour, overheads and channel performance
- Delivering variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year
- Supporting budgeting, rolling forecasts and monthly management accounts
- Helping with menu engineering, pricing reviews and promotional analysis
- Building financial models for new initiatives and site openings
- Partnering with General Managers and Operations to improve performance
- Automating and improving reporting through Excel and Power BI
- Ensuring data integrity across POS, payroll and finance systems
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We'd Love To Hear From You If You
- Bring experience in a similar role within a multi-site hospitality, retail or leisure business.
- Are part-qualified ACCA, CIMA or ACA—or qualified through relevant experience.
- Bring strong knowledge of Power BI, ERP platforms and POS reporting systems.
- Have two to four years’ experience in commercial finance, FP&A or financial analysis.
- Bring advanced Excel skills and strong analytical ability.
- Are extremely confident presenting financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
- Possess the ability to challenge assumptions and communicate recommendations clearly.
- Are proactive, detail-oriented approach and comfort working at pace.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Working At Arcade
Our teams are the most important part of our business, translating our passion for genuine hospitality to our guests every day. We are proud to work with industry-leading talent and recognise the importance of offering our teams the tools, guidance and experience necessary to build confidence and grow.


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At Arcade, we’re more than just a restaurant group... We’re a collective of bold, diverse food and drink brands driven by creativity, collaboration, and a passion for hospitality. We believe in growing together, empowering our people, and creating opportunities to thrive across all areas of the business. Whether onsite, behind the scenes or head office, working at Arcade means being part of something exciting, fast-moving, and truly unique in the hospitality industry.
Benefits Of Being Part Of The Team
- Refer a friend bonus
- Internal wage advance facility to instantly access the wages you’ve earned
- A restaurant recognition budget for Birthday goodies and career milestones
- 50% off food in our restaurants for you and your loved ones
- 50% off food in JKS restaurants within Arcade for you and your loved ones
- Access to counselling, remote GP/physio services, legal advice and more through Hospitality Action 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year
- Summer and Christmas team parties where we all down tools and have some fun!
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