The Finance Manager reports to the Head of Finance and will be joining Working Title’s Finance Team of 5 people. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with a possibility to become a permanent employee. The role is based in Central London and is fully office based.

The Finance Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day operational running of the finance function including month and quarter end processes, annual financial audit, management accounts and forecasting.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Approve new vendors & accounts payable invoices, release payment runs while monitoring cashflow. Post journals to transfer AP detail from subsystem to the company’s main accounting package. Understand the intricacy of cost recognition and supervise & support 2 finance staff in this area.
• Review and approve accounts receivable invoices and ensure production costs are recharged timely & correctly. Effectively resolve any issues.  Work with the Finance Assistant to ensure collections are closely monitored.
• Review and approve credit card reconciliations prepared by the Finance Assistant and Assistant Management accountant, across multiple companies and currencies. Ensure tax is correctly accounted for and spend is in line with company policies.
• Full responsibility for the group’s month end process to ensure the team’s work is coordinated and each month is closed as per group reporting deadlines.
• Prepare monthly management accounts and forecast against annual overhead budget and review these with the Head of Finance.
• Prepare monthly reports for parent company’s controllership team and sign off periodic reconciliation reports.
• Act as first point of contact for the financial auditors and ensure a smooth annual process including preparation of all workings requested by the auditors, adjustment journals and statutory accounts as well workings required by the tax team.
• Prepare monthly development expenditure reports and monitor budgets.
• Responsible for the company’s day to day cash management across multiple companies, countries and currencies including the preparation of monthly funding requests and the management of the intercompany payment cycle.