Finance Business Partner Creative Agency London

Finance Business Partner | Global Renowned Creative Advertising Agency| Hybrid / West London

The Client

Harmonic are delighted to be working with a leading global specialist in marketing compliance to recruit for a Finance Business Partner. They are renowned for supporting high-profile campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands across a diverse range of industries. Since its establishment in the early 2000s, they have successfully managed thousands of campaigns across half of the globe and numerous languages, ensuring each is delivered safely and in full compliance with local regulations.

The Role

Reporting directly into the Finance Director, the role of Finance Business Partner offers the opportunity to work closely with sales, operations and finance teams to provide essential insights and drive commercial success. With a focus on project accounting, supporting key decision-making and implementing a new project management system, this role is integral to the company's growth and operational excellence.

This role will be perfect for someone with strong project accounting experience from a creative background, who is happy rolling their sleeves up and has a keen commercial understanding behind financials.

The Responsibilities

• Acting as Finance Business Partner for various teams, such as sales and operations teams.
• Ownership of the P&L down to gross margin, ensuring accurate revenue recognition and gross margin reporting each month.
• Collaborate with sales and operations teams to understand the financials behind projects, ensuring they are profitable and aligned with business goals.
• Act as a key stakeholder in implementing a new project management system, transitioning from legacy software (Paprika), and becoming the in-house expert on the system.
• Support planning and forecasting processes, with a focus on gross margin analysis.
• Ad-hoc finance duties where required.

Essential Skills

• ACCA / CIMA / ACA qualified or QBE (part-qualified candidates also considered)
• Experience as Finance Business Partner / Commercial Finance Analyst or similar
• Strong understanding of project accounting
• 2+ years of experience in creative service industry (architecture, interior design, construction, marketing, advertising or similar)
• Excellent communication skills

Bonus skills

• Experience using Paprika
• Experience of Project Management System Transformation

Start Date: Q1 2025

Salary: £55,000-£70,000 (qualification dependent)

Location: West London (2 days WFH)

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your CV

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