Senior Finance Accounts Executive

Commercial Finance Executive
Solihull, Birmingham (Hybrid Working)
We are McCann, the UK’s largest integrated marketing agency. Over 500 individuals working together to help brands play a meaningful role in people’s lives.
And we have the awards to prove it, from Euro Effies most effective global agency, to Cannes Network of the Year, Campaign’s European Integrated Agency of the Year, not to mention our haul of awards in recent years at Cannes Lions, Clios, One Show, D&AD, LIAs, Golden Drum and the Creative Circle Awards.
We’re a team of passionate creatives, strategists and marketers from a wide mix of backgrounds. We are currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Executive to provide support into our fast-paced Finance department. This role requires you to provide high quality support to the relevant business teams, ensuring work in progress is effectively managed and invoices are issued in a timely and accurate manner. You will play a key role in ensuring process are followed and best practice accounting is undertaken at all times. In addition, you will be providing support to account teams and other agency leads to navigate finance systems and ensure a healthy work in progress position is maintained at all times.
Understanding and managing the WIP and billing fundamentals; Preparation of work-in-progress reports and monitoring of WIP & billing for specified clients or divisions ensuring recovery of committed costs.
Support the implementation of new information systems or technologies in line with the changing needs of the business.
Maintain areas of master data in the system in line with agency standards and provide other ad hoc financial tasks as required.
System maintenance including estimate approvals, billing profiles and job closing to ensure an accurate up to date WIP position.
Taking an active role in month end closedown to ensure the accurate and timely production of monthly management information data and reports.
Monitoring of fees for key clients involving analysis and reporting to track actual performance versus target, time reporting, variance analysis and PO tracking.
This role requires travel within the UK to our various office locations as part of regular duties.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships within the finance office and the wider business.
The ability to work under pressure, with large volumes of data whilst consistently meeting deadlines
Working knowledge of Excel and the wider Microsoft Office Suite
Working knowledge of SAP would be advantageous
Ideally, either part qualified (ACCA / CIMA, with the desire to continue to qualification) or have previous experience of working in a commercial finance role.
In addition to a competitive salary, we are committed to creating a brilliant environment for all our people. This includes benefits such as 28 days holiday, plus the opportunity to buy more holiday, enhanced pension contributions, life assurance and much more.
A culture of learning and development is also central to our ethos, so you’ll have access to industry leading training and development programmes, plus you’ll get to work closely with the world’s biggest media partners to access exclusive features and products.
If you want to join an iconic network agency that offers you the chance to work on one of the top clients in our portfolio & the opportunity to progress your career with an unrivalled development programme, contact us now.
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