Job Description
The Consultancy Group is currently recruiting for a finance analyst to join an international media business based in Central London. This role will work with the Planning & Reporting Team to ensure timeliness, accuracy and reliability of monthly actual, quarterly forecast & annual budget financial information for Group region.
Responsibilities, including but not limited to:
- Assisting with the collection of financial information from the businesses within the group
- Prepare monthly revenue and cost accruals for final reporting
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Support the consolidation of monthly and quarterly actuals and forecast and annual budget financial reporting in parallel with corporate requirements
- Developing templates for the review of P&L, Cashflow and Balance Sheet reporting for monthly actuals, quarterly forecast & annual budget
- Collating information for monthly and quarterly supplementary submissions (eg DSO reporting, Foreign Exchange analysis, programming Masterfile)
- Ensuring consistency and integrity between P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflows, and that information is presented as efficiently and clearly as possible
- Making a proactive contribution to progressively improve reporting speed and quality to all stakeholders
- Assisting with establishing and maintaining planning and reporting processes in respect of new lines of business
- Co-ordinating and monitoring responses from Europe & Africa finance teams for regular and ad-hoc reporting requirements
- Supporting Senior Manager and Manager, Planning & Reporting with supplementary analysis and ad hoc requests from regional management
- Supporting the monthly recharges of European Regional costs to all territories within the region
- Monitoring the status of actual recharges against budget and ensuring the correct allocation
- Leading quarter-end and off-quarter intercompany reconciliations including processing of operational transactions and co-ordination of AP & AR
- Working with Europe & Africa local finance teams to ensure consistent and accurate reporting in compliance with Group policies, local and US GAAP
- Promoting a robust control environment across the region
- Supporting local finance teams with Peoplesoft to ensure effective utilisation of the system by all teams
- Assistance with ad-hoc financial analysis as required for other projects in the Planning and Reporting team.
Person Profile:
- Part-qualified/Near qualified accountant with solid commercial experience within finance
- Highly desirable to have exposure of working at an international organisation and within media
- Excellent team player, who consistently displays a positive attitude
- IT literate with strong Excel skills and accounting systems knowledge
- Good interpersonal skills to communicate both within the Financial Reporting team and with a range of people across various countries
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with experience of managing multiple deadlines
- Attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy
- Proactive, with quick understanding of the business model
- Proven track record and fast learner
- Use of Hyperion reporting systems desirable
