The Company

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

The Role:

Reporting to the Central Finance Manager, 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 UK's central functions, ensuring that best practice accounting policies are followed.
• Responsibility for annual budgeting and forecasting process, including forecast revisions throughout the year
• Provide timely and accurate management support and analysis, identifying key issues including deviations from budgets and forecast revisions
• Monitor and reconcile balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
• Prepare quarterly VAT returns
• Assist with the statutory accounts preparation.
• Responsible for a number of European & International intercompany accounts transactions and reporting.
• Liaise with central teams (Head of department) on a regular basis to support them in understanding the financial performance of their department
• Work closely alongside the wider Finance team as well as other departments and global Finance teams
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of all reporting
• Provide support for annual audit process
• Responsible for managing and mentoring 1-2 junior staff members
• Provide financial and business expertise to other ad-hoc projects
• Opportunity for involvement in systems implementation and upgrades
• Ad hoc analysis for Senior Management team

Qualifications / Previous experience:

• Newly qualified ACA/CA/ACCA
• Practice trained (preferable Big 4)
• 3-5 years accounting experience
• Enthusiastic and motivated to improve processes
• Previous exposure to system implementations/improvements advantageous
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills