KennedyPeare are recruiting for Newly Qualified Accountant on behalf of a global media company based in London.

This role will be reporting directly into the Head of finance.

Responsibilities

Business Partnering

• Provide the marketing teams with financial and commercial support to continuously improve financial decision making.
• Influence and challenge stakeholders on their plans and execution of their plans in order to drive efficient and effective use of budget.
• Work closely with stakeholders to support supplier negotiations.

Planning & Forecasting

• Support monthly and quarterly planning, forecasting and review processes, keeping all relevant stakeholders engaged and up to date on performance and future plans
• Work closely with the teams across the business to ensure reported spend, both actuals and forecast, is an accurate reflection of activity.
• Identify risks and opportunities to both costs and circulation volumes and make recommendations to positively impact the outcome.

Analysis

• Investment appraisal for new offers, campaigns and incentives. Clearly identifies aims, details of project and clear outcomes/measures whilst considering risks.
• Perform regular analysis, often using large sets of data, of key sales channels to identify areas for improvement.

Reporting

• Weekly and Monthly reporting of relevant costs and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Maintain and enhance all sales and marketing effectiveness KPI reporting, such as sales uplifts, accurate promotional costs and market share analysis.
• Provide inputs for all related numbers in the production of quarterly performance review packs.

Required

Must be fully qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with ideally at least 1 year PQE in a commercial environment.