Finance Manager
Full Time
Job Description
- Assist with our planning cycles for all expenditures including the Long Range Plan (LRP- 5 year plan), budgets, reforecasts and monthly and quarterly pacing to New York.
- Proactively reviews financial risks and opportunities relevant to revenue and expenditure for the EMEA
- Review and analysis of month end results for relevant channels vs latest forecast (variance analysis of such).
- Identification of risks and opportunities and timely communication to manager.
- Works closely with other FP&A team members and controllership team to discuss variances
- Business partnering with relevant operational heads, providing support to non-finance teams to ensure robust and accurate data capture and information sharing.
- Work with Controllership team to ensure excellence in accounting and reporting.
- Partner with HQ finance team to share information and best practices
- Report to FP&A Director local market updates
- Liaise with EMEA Controllership for relevant finance related correspondences
- Coach and develop direct reports
- Continually seek to identify ways to simplify and or automate financial processes and reporting.
- Ensure all systems available are used to best effect by the team.
- Share system knowledge to ensure best practice.
- Sensitivity analysis and scenario planning as required.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA).
- Previous experience of financial planning and analysis.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with experience developing finance professionals
- Excellent knowledge and practice of balance sheet, P&L and free cash flow statements
- Excellent technical and analytical skills.
- Attention to detail and ability to work with large amounts of data in SAP, excel, other financial systems.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (particularly Excel and PowerPoint).
- Demonstrated ability to deliver on multiple assignments, meet tight deadlines, be effective and decisive under pressure.
- Ability to adapt and work well in a fast-paced, results-oriented and rapidly changing environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills, great team player.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to apply business intelligence and data analytics to forecast and analyze data/trends.
- Confident, accountable and solution focused.
- Self-starter and ability to work independently
- Experience of working with General Ledger and Consolidation systems, SAP/BPC/ Business Warehouse experience.
- Strong interest in the media industry and television business.
Reference no: 103526