The Company

My client is an internationally acclaimed fashion media company based in the West End.

The Role:

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will be responsible for preparing all financial statements and completing all month-end duties and ensuring compliance with internal & external financial regulations. You will help to drive change, improve processes and increase efficiency. There will also be a commercial element with this role with business partnering and stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Prepare accurate management accounts for the company's head office functions, providing financial support to department management.
• Provide timely and accurate management support and analysis, identifying key issues including deviations from annual and quarterly plan and recommending remedial action where necessary
• Assist in the forecasting (3 forecasts a year) of central departments.
• Responsible for managing various intercompany accounts, transactions and reporting.
• Provide financial and business expertise to other ad-hoc projects
• Provide assistance with month end balance sheet work.
• Assist with audit work
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns
• Assist with the statutory accounts preparation.
• Identifying and implementing improvements to the forecasting and reporting processes

Qualifications / Previous experience

• ACA/CA/ACCA qualified or Finalist
• Practice trained (preferable Big 4)
• Proven Financial reporting / Management reporting experience
• Enthusiastic and motivated to improve processes
• Previous exposure to system implementations/improvements advantageous
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills