Reporting & Central Costs Manager

📍 Toddington (Hybrid/Office-based) | 🕒 37.5 hours per week, Monday–Friday

Moto Hospitality is the UK’s leading operator of motorway service areas, with 70 sites across 53 locations nationwide. From familiar brands like M&S Simply Food, Costa Coffee, WHSmith, Burger King, KFC and Pret A Manger, to our own Moto offer, we’re proud to serve millions of customers every year.

We’re now looking for a Reporting & Central Costs Manager to join our Finance team at Toddington. This is a great opportunity for a recently qualified accountant who enjoys combining technical reporting with business partnering and continuous improvement.

What we offer:

• Up to 20% annual company performance related bonus

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Private medical insurance

• Contributory pension scheme

• Family discount scheme across Moto sites

The role:

Reporting into the Corporate Finance Controller, you’ll work closely with Central Support Department Heads, providing financial insight, challenge and support across central cost management and reporting.

This role also has management responsibility for two direct reports and offers the opportunity to influence processes, improve reporting and contribute to wider finance projects.

What you’ll be doing

Central costs & fixed assets

• Partnering with Central Support Department Heads on budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis

• Managing IT capex, infrastructure spend and capital project budgets

• Ownership and quarterly updates of the bonus model

• Reviewing fixed asset reporting and supporting capital and IT reporting

Reporting

• Preparing group management accounts, including P&L, balance sheet and cash flow

• Consolidating group company results and analysing working capital movements

• Investigating variances to budget and presenting key insights at monthly review meetings

• Owning statutory and ONS reporting requirements

• Identifying opportunities to improve reporting processes and drive efficiencies

Financial accounting

• Group company accounting, including intercompany loans, interest and amortisation

• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations

• Supporting audits and responding to requests from auditors and tax advisers

• Ad hoc analysis and finance projects

About you

You'll be a recently qualified accountant, with strong IT skills, in particular Excel. You will be self-motivated, with the ability to prioritise workload, have a strong attention to detail and be able to foster good cross-departmental working relationships.

• Qualified ACA or ACCA

• Strong financial accounting and reporting experience (practice or industry)

• Good working knowledge of FRS 102

• Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with financial data

• Highly organised, detail‑focused and able to prioritise competing deadlines

• A clear communicator who enjoys building effective cross‑department relationships

Why join Moto?

At Moto, we’re proud of our inclusive, down‑to‑earth culture and our focus on developing our people. You’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact, work with supportive colleagues, and grow your career within a large, complex and interesting business.