Commercial Director - London, United Kingdom - Simply 360 Search Ltd

Simply 360 Search Ltd

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our client, a leading brand loyalty agency based in London, has an opening for an experienced Commercial and Operations Director to join their team to lead, develop and shape our Commercial & Operations Function.

The role will be part time (3 days a week)on a hybrid basis.

Reporting to the MD and supporting the CFO, you will be responsible for:
Capacity Management

Leadership & management of agency capacity & timesheets including resource planning, tracking timesheets, reporting, reconciling and making recommendations to improve

Programme & Project Management

Leadership of Project Management Function
Ensuring efficient and productive workflows, structures and practices across all commercial and operations functions (from new client set up to PO processes)
Running the Agency Weekly Status Meetings

Commercial Management

Running the Monthly Numbers Meeting reviewing and actioning forecast, profitability, capacity and timesheets
Working closely with the leadership and finance teams to manage the forecast, invoicing, agency commercials (inc client profitability) and P&L
Leading quarterly client financial reviews and leading any client specific commercial requests (e.g. from invoicing update or reconciliation update through to audit)
Managing client, partner and supplier commercials (for clients and for agency)
Preparing agency fee proposals and leading agency fee renegotiations with clients
Driving operational cost saving and revenue growth initiatives and innovations to ensure agency growth and target achievement (e.g. introduction of a referral fee agreement)

Legal Management

Leading and developing the relationship with legal counsel
Leading & managing the client contracting process, including managing client contracting systems and process
Supporting the Head of Partnerships and Partnerships team managing Partner & Supplier contracting including DPAs

Recruiting and line managing a new HR Advisor (job spec & recruitment in progress) ambition for 2023

Financial Management and Reporting and Audit

Preparation and management of monthly revenue (Net Sales) for monthly financial reporting. Reporting to CFO.
Monthly Revenue/Net Sales variance analysis.
Monthly review with Project Management and Finance Manager of all Passthrough cost Job Cards
Supporting CFO in preparation of financial Year Budgets/Forecasts on quarterly basis
Preparation of VAT returns
Supporting CFO with annual statutory audit and client audits

Sox compliance

Support CFO with existing SOX controls including continual review and design improvement.
Maintain SOX control documentations and policy notes
Ownership of SOX control compliance for monthly 'Close the Books'
Ownership of SOX control compliance for monthly 'Revenue'
Ownership of Data compliance.

Compliance

Formalising, designing and documenting agency processes in line with company procedures and guidelines ensuring adherence to the Internal Control Framework and the Risk Controls Matrix
Leadership of the Agency understanding and compliance with policies and procedures, including client set up, contracting and DPAs.

Ideally you will have 10 years+ operations/finance experience gained within a previous branding / marketing / creative agency with strong commercial skills and great project and programme management skills

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