Interim Senior Finance Analyst

My client a leading Media business is looking to hire a senior finance analyst on a 6-9 month temporary basis.

Key responsibilities include preparing departmental budgets, quarterly forecasts and analysis, monthly actuals reporting and analysis, running allocations, and ensuring a strong internal control environment is maintained at all times.

• Working with departments to manage their revenue and opex budgets and provide day-to-day financial (FP&A) support.
• Being the first point of call in finance for teams (including heads of departments, VPs of Sales, Creative Planning & Client Services, Content Engagement)
• Preparation of quarterly financial forecasts (Estimates) and annual budgets
• Preparation of monthly financial reporting and analysis
• Headcount ISCP (International Staff Compensation Planning) reporting and reconciliations, working closely with HR to ensure headcount is tightly managed across departments
• Close liaison with transactional processing team to provide local assistance and review as required in order to produce monthly financial reporting
• Calculating and booking allocations to the Clusters and fielding Cluster queries
• Adhere to internal and external reporting deadlines
• Maintain strong internal control environment
• Facilitate and implement new processes and process improvements in finance and operations
• Ensure consistency between reporting in finance systems and Business Intelligence system
• Work on complex and challenging ad hoc projects, partnering with several stakeholders across the business, including non-finance stakeholders, international stakeholders and external clients
• Work closely with the Operations Senior Director to ensure accurate reporting of revenue and revenue forecasting
• Picking up managerial tasks (consolidation of numbers, preparing NY submission packs, preparing monthly submissions)
• Other ad hoc projects as requested by the Finance Manager, Director or VP Finance.

Skills/Experience

• Professional accountancy qualification with post qualification experience.
• Several years’ relevant work experience in a large organisation.
• Intermediate to advanced excel skills.
• Experience working with a general ledger and reporting results systems
• Systems experience in data extraction for report writing.
• Strong analytical, communication and presentation skills
• Strong understanding of how to maintain internal controls over financial processes.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Well organised with strength in prioritising.
• Flexible attitude to achieve results.
• Positive outlook and ambition to progress within.
• Driven by a challenge.