The main function of this role is to produce the Management Accounts to a high level of accuracy and in a timely manner, and to assist in providing a first-class business partnering service to the teams. This role will assist the Head of FP&A in providing analysis and commercial insight to the CFO and divisional heads to aid decision making.

Key Responsibilities:

Month end management accounts

• Produce monthly management accounts for the divisions
• Review production activity and account for monthly revenue, gross profit and margins
• Ownership of all month end journals, accruals, prepayments, recoveries & capex.
• Responsibility and maintenance of TV central overhead allocations and associated variance analysis with commentary.
• Ability to assist in preparing analysis for meetings with key stakeholders in the business on allocation methods, cost driving efficiencies and suitable proposals.
• Detailed variance analysis and commentary of actual performance against budget/forecast by project.
• Ownership of assigned balance sheet reconciliations.
• Assistance with the half year interim report and full year audit deliverables.
• Oversight of all production cost managers and ensuring they are kept up to date and reconciled to nominal ledgers.

Business partnering

• Provide business partnering analysis and financial support to the Production Executives and Production Managers, plus ad hoc support for Managing Directors, Exec Producers and CFO.

• Help develop strong working relationships with the Production Executives and Production Managers and ability to challenge deviations in expected margins.

Budgets & Forecasts

• Preparation of detailed budgets and quarterly detailed forecasting in conjunction with the Head of FP&A.
• Ability to present numbers to the Head of FP&A and explain impact of assumptions.
• Capable of preparing suitable forecasting scenarios with the ability to present to Head of FP&A.
• Working alongside the Head of FP&A and Financial Reporting Manager to drive efficiencies in processes and workflows across the finance function.
• Ad hoc analysis of revenue/costs in order to understand the business in more detail and make improvements, such as how to reduce production costs.

Key Requirements:

• ACCA/CIMA/ACA Qualified or Finalist
• Strong Excel skills
• Proactive self starter
• Good attention to detail