Group Financial Controller

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We are the originators of influencer marketing.

Influencer is an agency built at the intersection of creativity, data, and technology with a unique 'people power & platform power' approach.

From big brand launches to shifting perceptions and from riding fast trends to driving footfall, Influencer builds ideas with impact to deliver outcomes that drive your business forward via an unmatched client experience.

Campaigns are underpinned by Influencer's game-changing proprietary technologies, which are supercharged by official partnerships and data integrations with the world's leading social platforms for real-time and accurate reporting. Influencer is an Official Global Marketing Partner of TikTok, Snap, YouTube and Meta.

We believe the more tangible, scaled outcomes that creators produce drive impact beyond just likes and impressions. Influencer is championing the 'True Human Influence' movement; on a mission for creator campaigns to be judged in the same way as other media activations.

Founded by OG YouTube creator Caspar Lee & entrepreneur Ben Jeffries, Influencer has been helping brands navigate the ever-evolving influencer marketing landscape since 2015. In that time they have developed valuable knowledge, experience, and technology that have enabled them to deliver thousands of campaigns, for hundreds of brands in markets across the world. Today, Influencer has a team of 170+ of the best talent in the industry, working across Europe, North America, and the Middle East. From Google to Coca-Cola, from Amazon to Microsoft, and from TikTok to Meta - they work with companies, brands, and agencies across every vertical, building meaningful relationships between brands, creators, and their audiences.

Job Title

Group Financial Controller

Contract Type

12 month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) maternity cover with potential for extension

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the CFO

Overview of the job

The Group Financial Controller will be a key reporting and compliance partner to the ELT - helping us make smarter, faster, and more profitable decisions by understanding revenue and expenditure and where opex can be better applied for greater efficiency or return on investment.

You'll report to the CFO but your day-to-day will be spent embedded with budget holders - NA and EMEA President, CPO, Marketing and Product and Engineering - making life easier for anyone responsible for expenditure.

You'll own Financial Reporting and Compliance, to ensure comprehensive financial management, encompassing monthly financial statement preparation and consolidation for multiple legal entities with distinct currencies. Responsibilities include generating P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow analyses, variances assessment, forecasting, and adherence to reporting timelines. The role also entails responsibility for annual statutory reporting, Companies House compliance, tax returns, and internal controls, while consistently seeking process enhancements.

You'll also play a key role in building scalable financial systems adoption and processes, linking our systems and ensuring delivery of efficient and effective reporting and compliance across all regions.

3 best things about the job

• An opportunity to play a defining role in the next phase of Influencer's journey - shaping how we recognise, track, and scale revenue globally.
• Embedded partnership with senior leadership across regions, directly influencing strategic financial decisions.
• Building and implementing scalable financial systems and processes in a fast-growing, dynamic environment.

Measures of success –

In the first few months, you would have:

• Delivered all financial monthly and annual reporting on or before the due date.
• Revenue recognition accuracy achieved with zero audit issues.
• Working capital issues identified and addressed within the rolling 13 week cash flow.
• Improved forecast accuracy (vs. actuals) and pacing confidence.
• Reduction in the month end cycle by 5 days within the first 6 months.
• All core internal controls working effectively and Influencer Way documentation updated to reflect any process changes.
• Excellent feedback from senior stakeholders and audit partner.
• Financial reporting tools adopted across global teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting & Consolidation

• Take full ownership of preparing and publishing monthly financial statements for the Group, covering five legal entities operating in multiple currencies.
• Perform full consolidation of results using data downloads from Joiin/Xero (GL system) and managing a complex excel-based consolidation model, including maintaining and refreshing formulas to reflect changes in the business structure.
• Own and manage the month-end timetable and processes, ensuring timely delivery of financial reporting for the ELT, Board and Puma submission.
• Produce accurate and timely monthly P&L, balance sheet, and statutory cash flow statements with detailed commentary on trading performance, currency impacts, and variances against budget.
• Deliver monthly forecast refreshes across P&L, balance sheet, statutory cash flow, and year-end cash position.
• Perform and review balance sheet reconciliations, including bank reconciliations and postings.
• Ensure high standards of quality control over all financial transactions and reports.

Cash Management

• Conduct cash variance analysis (actual vs. budget/forecast) and lead forecasting for working capital, including modeling supplier payment scenarios and liquidity requirements.
• Produce weekly the 13 week cash flow to highlight and address any short term liquidity issues and cash pinch points.

Financial Governance - Statutory reporting, Tax, Compliance & Audit

• Prepare and file monthly and quarterly tax and VAT returns.
• Ensure compliance with government, statutory, and tax reporting across all jurisdictions, leveraging external advisors as needed, including Withholding Tax and Transfer Pricing issues.
• Research and resolve technical accounting issues with the support of advisors to ensure ongoing compliance with accounting standards.
• Lead the annual audit process, prepare audit files, schedules, and coordinate regulatory reporting requirements.
• Lead on the preparation of the annual statutory accounts across all legal entities and each territories local requirements.
• Own and deliver all Companies House Reporting requirements.

Budgeting & Planning

• Lead budget management meetings with senior leadership and budget holders, driving cost management and variance analysis of actual spend versus budget to drive forecasting accuracy.
• Partner with the FP&A Team in the preparation of the annual budget and three-year strategic plan.
• Deliver insightful analysis and recommendations to support financial decision-making and performance improvement.

Process Improvement & Controls

• Continuously drive improvements and efficiencies in financial processes, systems, and reporting accuracy.
• Develop and document financial processes, accounting policies, and internal controls to enhance financial governance.
• Promote a continuous improvement mindset, identifying process weaknesses and implementing practical solutions.

Other Responsibilities

• Support ad-hoc financial analysis and special projects as required.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support the business with financial insight and control.

What you will need:

• Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or equivalent.
• 5+ years' experience in financial control, consolidation, and reporting roles, in a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS / UK GAAP and experience managing external audits.
• Experience with global Compliance related issues and implementation of Transfer Pricing, all tax related matters including Withholding, Corporation, Sales Tax and double taxation treaties.
• Experience with global revenue recognition compliance in line with IFRS reporting, preferably in a digital media or agency environment
• Highly analytical with a commercial and problem solving mindset - you don't just report numbers, you ask "so what?" and drive action.
• Proven track record of process improvement and internal control development.
• Expert in GL systems, Excel/Google Sheets and familiar with HubSpot CRM preferred.
• Excellent communicator - you make complex finance clear to non-financial stakeholders.
• Able to move fast, stay accurate, and support decisions with speed in a high-growth environment.

A few of our core benefits:

• Private Healthcare through Vitality

• Wellbeing support through Vitality including EAP & Mental Health cover

• 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Bank Holidays which can be flexed to your needs)

For more information on our benefits, perks and what makes us unique, please visit our website here

At Influencer, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion. We promote DEI in our workplace and are a global community who believe our unique qualities should be celebrated. We want everyone at Influencer to bring their authentic selves to work everyday, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We are committed to embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into everything we do at Influencer, making it part of our culture. All we ask is that you have a passion for Influencer Marketing and a desire to be a part of one of the fastest growing companies within this exciting industry.