Finance Analyst
- Recruiter
- Investigo Limited
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- £180.00 - £220.00 per day
- Posted
- 20 Jan 2017
- Closes
- 27 Jan 2017
- Ref
- BBBH52658
- Contact
- Lucy Willingham
- Job Title
- Finance Analyst
- Category
- Media / Entertainment
- Experience Levels
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
My client is a globally recognised media organisation who are currently in a growth period. They are looking for a Finance Analyst to join the team on a 12 month fixed term contract. The Finance Analyst is expected to work closely with other members of the Finance teams both within their particular area and outside of it.
Monthly Accounts:
- Manage the monthly management accounts process, confirming gross & net sales and contribution, managing input from Finance Analyst
- Prepare balance sheet reconciliation's for review
- Prepare and post Marketing Accruals
- Prepare and post advance write off provisions
Month-End Reports:
- Preparation of the monthly KPI pack, with commentary
- Budgets and Forecasts:
- Assist the HOCA with the preparation and compilation of budget and forecast data and management reports, specifically:
- Liaising with Sales to reconcile and analyse actual and forecast sales data
- Liaising with editorial to check title detail to publishing schedules
- Preparing backlist, sell-on and non-trade analysis to assist building budgets/forecast by brand, genre or author
- Updating cost of sales data and projected sales data
- Liaising with Marketing to determine marketing budgets by title/author and inputting this into the financial systems
- Assist with the preparation of budget & forecast packs
Other Tasks:
- Prepare acquisition P&Ls for sign off by the HOCA, in conjunction with the Editorial and Sales departments
- Assist with producing / produce ad-hoc P&Ls for titles and authors as requested. Analyse the data and be able to comment on title/author/series profitability
- Prepare data for annual title profitability review, assisting HOCA in identifying key learnings
- Deal with invoicing/payment/other general financial queries as required
- Prepare quarterly royalty provision true-up exercise
- Prepare quarterly Gross loss provision exercise
- Business partnering with the business as required - primarily Sales and Marketing & Publicity, providing excel advice and analysis, tracking of spend etc.
- Management of Finance Analyst for certain tasks
Essential Experience:
- Prior experience within a financial analyst role
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills - must have confident and thorough working knowledge of pivots, vlookups, and complex formulae
- Strong report building skills
Desired:
Previous experience using SAP and Business Objects