Finance Analyst

Finance Analyst

Media Agency | Oxford Circus, London | Hybrid (3 days a week in the office | 27-30k

A global media agency are looking to expand their vibrant commercial finance team by hiring a finance analyst to join them in the New Year!

Reporting into a Commercial Finance Manager, you'll focus on supporting revenue and WIP management, so this is a great opportunity for a junior biller or commercial analyst to take their next step in a business that can provide long term progression.

The role will involve building strong relationships with internal staff, stakeholders and clients. If you're a confident professional who enjoys being client facing, this could be the role for you!

Responsibilities - Finance Analyst

• Provide support on revenue forecasting by ensuring agency has all relevant documentation to recognise revenue across all clients -i.e. approved scopes of work, client purchase orders
• Support commercial finance team with revenue related queries
• Maintenance of PO and billing tracker, acting as first point of contact with the AR team on queries, rejected invoices and ensuring all billing invoiced and approved in a timely manner
• Provide account teams with project reconciliations, including analysing variances between recognised and billed revenue
• Provide relevant business units with timesheet reporting and analysis
• Responsible for WIP management, including liaising with relevant stake holders to ensuring project billing is correct and monthly project expenses are invoiced in a timely manner
• Assist with the management of accrued and deferred revenue
• Assist with resolving discrepancies with billing queries and raising concerns for escalation
• Supporting on audits
• Any other ad hoc tasks

The Person - Finance Analyst

• Proven experience in billing, client accounting, AR assistant or finance analyst role preferably in a media or creative industry
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills along with a high attention to detail
• Confident and proactive approach with an ability to display excellent communication skills, both written and verbally
• Proficient experience using a accounting software
• Excellent Excel skills

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