Job Description
Financial Controller - Creative Agency
Handle are working with a creative agency based in London, in their search for a Financial Controller.
Agency Reporting
- Close the month-end ensuring general ledger is fully reconciled with all balance sheet reconciliations ready for review
- Take revenue and invoicing inputs to determine revenue accruals and deferrals
- Produce month-end management accounts, including forecast
External Compliance
- Produce month-end Barclays Pack (including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, trade debtors and creditors)
- Prepare year-end files, for annual audit and deal with auditor queries during fieldwork
- Produce annual statutory accounts ready for filing within 5 months of year end
- Process monthly payroll
- Produce annual PSA submission
- Produce P11Ds for timely submission
- Produce and review monthly VAT return ensuring inputs and outputs are accurately reported
- Submit Euler credit insurance declarations
- Complete daily cash flow file and manage month end forecast and covenant projection
- Working closely with AP manage supplier payment schedule and determine weekly payment runs
Commercial Management and Reporting
- Oversee monthly WIP review meetings undertaken by WIP & Credit Control Manager with the Account Team
- Responsible along with FD for client WIP reconciliation sign off
- Timesheet reporting and analysis and chasing outstanding timesheets.
- Produce monthly client time reconciliations to support fee charging (where required)
- Support FD with commercial reporting including, non-utilised time, departmental profitability, client and job profitability
- Ad hoc analysis where required
Other
- Manage WIP & Credit Control Manager and Accounts Payable Executive ensuring they are an effective team and have adequate scope for personal development
- Maintain effective controls and segregation of duties both within the finance team and the Agency to minimise risk
- Drive process and control improvements, ensuring Agency documentation of same is always up to date
- Ensure general smooth running of processes e.g. ensuring expenses are getting approved, accrued income getting billed, and petty cash being routinely reconciled
- Manage user profiles ensuring all time is being captured
- Expert user and champion of the Chase &Navision systems:
- overseeing workflows
- approval hierarchies
- maintaining systems setup
- ensuring data integrity
- first line support to the wider team
Ideal Candidate:
- Must be qualified ACA, CIMA, ACCA
- Must have relevant previous experience
- Must be a sufficient Navision user
- Must have worked in Media/Entertainment
Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to everyone. If you have not heard from us within 5 working days of sending your CV then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for the position you have applied for.
