Job Description

• Help form the strategic direction, applying business creativity in tandem with financial discipline, bringing commercial rationale to future investment opportunities
• Coach and develop a small finance team
• Own the budgeting, forecasting and planning processes including taking on responsibility for the current forecast model, delivering improved management information and developing new reports and models that are appropriate for non-finance stakeholder consumption
• Maintain and update suite of analytical tools to allow for full interrogation of all costs and revenues
• Responsibility for preparation of forecasts and budgets for all teams
• Provide ongoing risk and opportunity assessments of the business, including full accountability for ensuring robust corporate governance and compliance
• Drive improved yet simplified data insight through the organization, partnering business heads and auctioning a transparent understanding of business performance
• Work closely with the various functional agency teams to encourage improved understanding of pricing, cost control and client contract profitability
• Implement a transparent and rigorous financial control structure, ensuring clear vision for the growth of the business
• Own annual planning process including issuing clear guidelines on assumptions to cost / revenue managers; challenge the outputs and consolidate results for review by the Board
• Support Sales and Marketing teams in the targeting / acquisition of new customers
• Challenge and support functional leaders to improve performance; manage risks and opportunities
• Create and deliver presentations for financial and business reviews that provide impactful insights to drive business performance
• Accuracy and completeness of management accounts, review of month end figures 

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities