- Leading Media Owner
- Pure Commercial Role
- £££ Dep on exp + Extensive Benefits & Superb Career Development
Superb opportunity for a Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) to join this thriving Media group. Business-facing roles sitting with the commercial team with a primary focus on business partnering (internal/external stakeholders), FP&A and ad-hoc project & analysis work.
Key Accountabilities:
- Work with the commercial finance team to co-ordinate the annual budgeting and forecasting, KPI’s and P&L for a key division within the business
- Taken ownership of key commercial deal models, implementing improvements.
- As a key contact between the business and the finance team, you’ll spend significant time establishing relationships with department heads, providing support to management, identifying new ways to communicate performance and providing financial planning & commercial analytical support
- Ownership of the Commercial deal models for all key specialist deals, as a key business partner for Commercial Director making sure the economics of the deals are clearly analysed and understood.
- Tracking of budgets and deals to identify trends, run rates and opportunities.
- Constantly challenge how things are done and look for new ways to support the business to achieve excellence in its financial performance.
- Lead and participate in key projects, business reviews and deal appraisals for your area.
- Maintain high levels of financial management and controls to support your business area and the group overall.
- Embrace new technology and the finance system to create robust, accurate and timely management information and use analysis and data to make valuable contributions to the numbers.
- Participate as part of the management team within finance in helping the CFO and FDs setting strategy and objectives.
Required Experience:
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- Proven background in business partnering/FP&A
- Media experience preferred but not essential
- Strong academic background; university graduate or equivalent
- Excellent analytical skills and experience building excel spreadsheets
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in written form.
- Able to explain/present results (especially financial) in a clear, accurate and concise form.
- Team player with strong work ethic.
- Strong interpersonal skills necessary to develop strong relationships with colleagues from the different territories
- Detail oriented, but ability to see the big picture.
- Flexible with ability to multi-task and prioritise.
- Ability to manage own workload in a pressurised environment and work to tight deadlines.