Commercial Finance Director

Key Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial planning across markets and service lines.
• Partner with senior leaders on client profitability, pricing, scopes of work, rate cards and commercial negotiations.
• Oversee revenue recognition, work-in-progress, project accounting and accurate forecasting of retained and project-based income.
• Analyse pipeline, new-business opportunities, client budgets and delivery risks.
• Monitor staff utilisation, freelance and production costs, headcount investment and resource requirements.
• Strengthen working-capital performance through effective billing, collections, cash forecasting and supplier-payment management.
• Ensure timely month-end, year-end, statutory and corporate reporting, supported by robust financial controls.
• Provide financial oversight of major clients, campaigns, partnerships, content production and experiential activity.
• Lead and develop the finance team while improving systems, processes and management information.
• Collaborate with creative, client service, production, commercial and corporate teams across international operations.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with senior finance leadership experience in media or creative businesses.
• Strong commercial finance, business partnering and performance management experience.
• Deep understanding of agency, media or creative business models and revenue streams.
• Commercial acumen across client negotiations, pricing, investment and new business.
• Able to influence senior leaders and turn financial insight into action.
• Experience improving finance processes, models and capabilities.Strong people leader who builds collaborative, high-performing teams.