About the Position: In this role you will:
- Take ownership of financial reporting across multiple UK entities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to UK management and international stakeholders.
- Lead the monthly management reporting and reforecasting process, including detailed variance analysis and ensuring submissions are delivered within stringent group deadlines.
- Oversee multiple P&Ls and balance sheet areas, ensuring strong financial control and accuracy across the entities.
- Review balance sheet reconciliations, analyse movements and ensure any issues are identified and resolved promptly.
- Oversee WIP, house costs, accruals, journals and other key areas of financial accounting, ensuring your team are managing these effectively.
- Manage cash forecasting, FX reporting and cost management across the business.
- Lead and manage a team of Finance Managers, providing guidance, oversight and support across their respective P&Ls. The role will be focused on managing and reviewing the team rather than being a hands-on preparer.
- Manage relationships with the UK and overseas Shared Service Centre team, providing clear direction and ensuring agreed deliverables, journals and reporting requirements are completed accurately and on time.
- Oversee the statutory and group audit processes, working closely with external auditors, the Shared Service Centre and wider agency teams to ensure all requirements are delivered within strict deadlines.
- Review financial statements and support the delivery of statutory and group reporting requirements across the UK entities.
- Oversee tax and regulatory submissions, including VAT, corporation tax-related reporting, PSA, ONS submissions and other HMRC and UK Government requirements.
- Review and approve relevant submissions prepared by the Shared Service Centre, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
What we're looking for
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified accountant.
- Previous Financial Controller, Financial Accounting, Group Accounting or similar experience within a large, complex organisation.
- Strong financial accounting background with excellent technical accounting knowledge and a strong understanding of IFRS.
- Experience working across multiple entities, ideally within a group environment with exposure to consolidations and group reporting.
- Experience working within a large organisation where there are stringent reporting deadlines, complex structures and multiple stakeholders.
- Previous team management experience.
- We are open to candidates who have trained in practice and subsequently moved into industry, as well as those who have trained directly within industry.
- Advertising experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
- US GAAP and SOX experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
Here's what's waiting for you
- £85,000-£100,000 salary plus benefits.
- Hybrid working-3 days per week in the office.
- The opportunity to join a major global advertising group.
- Significant exposure to complex, multi-entity financial reporting and group processes.
- Responsibility for a large, established finance team.
- Exposure to senior stakeholders across both the UK and international finance functions.
Why this role could be your next move
This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant who wants to step into a genuinely complex Financial Controller position within a large international organisation. You'll be working across multiple entities, dealing with demanding reporting deadlines, group reporting, consolidations, IFRS, financial controls and a wide range of senior stakeholders.
The business is particularly interested in candidates who understand the complexity that comes with working for a large organisation. This is not a straightforward single-entity Financial Controller position; you will be operating within a sizeable international group with multiple entities, significant reporting requirements, shared service centres and tight monthly and quarterly deadlines.
Advertising or agency experience would be a major advantage, but the priority is someone who has already worked within a large, complex organisation and is comfortable operating in a highly controlled and deadline-driven environment.