Budget Controller - London, United Kingdom - Simply 360 Search Ltd

Simply 360 Search Ltd

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A highly reputable and successful global advertising group are recruiting for a Budget Controller to join their Central London finance team on 12 month FTC.

The role is hybrid with a mixture of office working and working from home.

Working closely and reporting to the Client Finance Manager you will be tasked with providing administrative financial service for assigned Account Groups / Clients, to meet Agency Work-in-Progress (WIP), billing, and credit control in accordance with relevantaccounting standards and internal policies.

Work In Progress Management (WIP)

Ensure timely financial management for WIP (including external cost and time) & billing in accordance with Clients' terms of business.

To include regular (at least once monthly) meetings with account teams to ensure production jobs are managed so that:

3rd-party costs are billed and recovered accordingly.

- over-runs are mitigated and managed appropriately.
- reconciliations are completed in a timely manner.
- completed jobs are closed in a timely manner.

Understand assigned clients' terms of business.

Understand relevant business policies and accounting standards (particularly with regard to WIP and revenue recognition).

Credit Control
Manage the debtor accounts for prescribed clients ensuring that:

monies are collected as prescribed in client agreements.

- queries are resolved, in conjunction with relevant internal teams, in a timely fashion.
- prescribed credit limits are monitored and any overages are highlighted to the FC & CFM early on in order to enable action.

Other

Support Senior Business Partner & Business Partner in providing finance assistance to the business for assigned clients, ensuring information is effectively communicated and discussed with account teams to facilitate and drive business efficiencies and improvements.

Assist with the preparation of monthly reports for submission to unit / department managers and to group controller teams.

Skills and Abilities:

Ideally you will have previous budget controller experience within the advertising industry along with previous experience of providing business unit financial support who has previous SAP experience and is proficient in Excel.

You will also require excellent communication skills, both written and verbal in a way that is both impactful and easily understandable by a financial and non-financial audience

If this sounds like you then please send us your CV now