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
Due to the large number of applicants we receive from web-based job advertisements, it is the policy of RedHat only to contact candidates that have the relevant skillset for our current portfolio of clients.
If you do not receive a reply you have not been successful this time but please do not hesitate to contact us again in the future.