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Management Accountant - TV

  • Location: London
  • Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Package
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted about 2 years ago

  • Sector: finance
  • Type: hybrid
  • Contact: Tom Chadwick
  • Contact Email: tom.chadwick@handle.co.uk
  • Expiry Date: 10 April 2022
  • Job Ref: BBBH96531

Management Accountant - TV

Award-winning and critically acclaimed television and content creation group are looking for a qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA Management Accountant.

The main function of this role is to produce the TV management accounts to a high level of accuracy and in a timely manner, and to provide a first-class business partnering service to the production teams.

This role will work closely with the Head of Finance in providing analysis and commercial insight to the CFO and divisional heads to aid decision making.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Month end management accounts

  • Ownership and production of the monthly management accounts for the London TV business.
  • Review production activity and account for monthly revenue, gross profit and margins
  • Manage, forecast and account for all third-party income streams, shares and royalties
  • Detailed variance analysis and commentary of actual performance against budget/forecast by project.
  • Responsibility and maintenance of TV central overhead allocations and associated variance analysis with commentary.
  • Ability to prepare analysis for meetings with key stakeholders in the business on scenario planning and business plans
  • Management of TV department invoicing in conjunction with the Head of Production to ensure billing is up to date and in line with contractual agreements/milestones.
  • Maintenance of the TV pipelines and activity phasing in conjunction with the Head of Finance.
  • Assistance with the half year interim report and full year audit deliverables.
  • Oversight of all production cost managers and ensuring they are kept up to date and reconciled to nominal ledgers.
  • Sole responsibility for all detailed variances to budget with appropriate communication and scheduled monthly meetings with the Head of Finance.

Business partnering

  • To be the main point of contact within Finance for the London TV MD, Head of Production and production management teams.
  • Provide business partnering analysis and financial support to the Head of Production, Production Executives and Production Managers, plus ad hoc support for the Managing Director, Exec Producers and CFO.
  • Help develop strong working relationships with the Production Executives and Production Managers and ability to challenge deviations in expected margins and delivery of programmes.

Budgets & Forecasts

  • Preparation of detailed budgets and quarterly detailed forecasting in conjunction with the Head of Finance.
  • Ability to present numbers to the Head of Finance and explain impact of assumptions.
  • Capable of preparing suitable forecasting scenarios with the ability to present to Head of Finance and/or CFO.

Internal controls, efficiencies & ad hoc projects

  • Working alongside the Head of Finance and Financial Reporting Manager to drive efficiencies in processes and workflows across the finance function.
  • Identification of improvements to processes and working papers
  • Ad hoc analysis of revenue/costs in order to understand the business in more detail and make improvements, such as how to reduce production costs

Person Specification:

  • ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualified
  • Clear understanding of and ability to produce management accounts accurately and on a timely basis
  • Working knowledge and experience of the TV production accounting process and workflows
  • Proactive self-starter -ability who is highly organised, can manager their own workload efficiently and manage upwards.
  • Strong excel skills, including regular use of lookups, pivot tables, sumifs etc.
  • Good attention to detail, high level of productivity and takes pride in their work.
  • Excited to work in a challenging, fast paced environment where they can improve finance processes, systems and management information, and can help to drive decision making.
  • Ability to develop good relationships with both finance and non-finance stakeholders

Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.