London, United Kingdom
Finance Manager
Role overview
We are a collaborative, supportive, pioneering, and high-performing global team who have a passion and purpose to support, inspire and transform the lives of marketeers. We help increase marketing effectiveness through better-integrated marketing, fixing, and fine-tuning our clients’ market resources.
We are looking for a talented Finance Manager located in the UK with exceptional organisational skills, who is extremely proactive and professional and has a passion for all things Finance. This opportunity will suit someone with who is passionate about numbers, has a positive can-do attitude and is looking for a dynamic and varied role. You will be responsible for monitoring project performance, liaising with internal stakeholders, daily financial transactional support and other ad-hoc financial duties.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Weekly project reconciliation updates from timesheet system
- Monitoring of all active projects on the timesheet system to ensure completeness of accounts
- Providing financial support for day-to-day finance transactions such as employee expenses, purchase invoices, sales invoices and bank transactions
- Multi-currency transactions
- Detailed analysis of some management account balances for SMT review
- Ad hoc financial duties as required
What we are looking for
The successful candidate will be or has been working in a finance team and must understand the principles of project accounting (although not necessarily working in a project accounting role) and the financial implications of posting transactions.
Experience Needed
- Experience of working in an accounting role
- Ideally part qualified / qualified by experience will be considered
- Knowledge of Sage 50 Accounts would be an advantage
- Good excel and general IT skills
- You are a hardworking, enthusiastic, ambitious, self-motivated, and hands-on individual with a strong work ethic.
- You enjoy working in a challenging fast-paced, target-driven and team-oriented environment.
- A genuine affinity for problem solving, balancing strong analytical and quantitative thinking with a creative mindset
- You are detailed-oriented and highly organized with exceptional advanced Excel and written English skills.
We want to work with people who are:
- Naturally collaborative (Globally) and thrive in a flat and flexible organization.
- Thoughtful communicators, seeking to foster meaningful relationships across our community of diverse partners.
- Caring and open to all. Those who are inclusive leaders, committed to learning, and leveraging our differences as strengths.
- Pragmatic and optimistic with energy and enthusiasm for what’s next shining through in everything they do.
- Curious. Those who are courageous and use their deep business insights to cultivate innovation.
- Clear thinker who can communicate with people across multiple departments.
If this sounds like you; Please email us your CV and cover letter to careers@Flock-associates.com and tell us about yourself, your experience, sectors you have worked in and why you would be interested in working with us.
If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to speak with us.
Flock and our culture
Flock Associates is The Marketing Transformation Company. Marketing Transformation is the process of reinventing an organisational marketing ecosystem, making it fit for the future. We focus on the operational aspects of marketing; improving marketing effectiveness & efficiency across five areas; Capability, Operations, Procurement, Marketing Technology, & Strategy. We help increase marketing effectiveness by fixing and fine-tuning our clients’ marketing resources. Flock works with some of the world’s most marketing intensive clients; Ford, McDonald’s, Ebay, Mondelez, Volkswagen, Diageo, Sega, Johnson & Johnson, EY, Kellogg’s, Campbell’s Soup, Toyota, Lexus and many others.
At Flock, we always put the Customer and the Future at the heart of our clients’ strategies. We are relentless in our pursuit and application of world-class, best practice thinking.
Flock is a warm, fun, rewarding, challenging and fast paced environment, where hard work and dedication are part of what makes us who we are. The Flock culture is to deliver services to our clients in a highly professional manner; exceptional quality, outstanding customer service, honesty and added value. We expect anyone joining the team to work to the same high standards with a strong work ethic. Internally we give each other lift and support, working collaboratively and building on each other’s strengths; we’re a Flock!
We pride ourselves in being global in thinking and structure. Our team comprises many different nationalities, and many of us have worked and lived in different markets around the world. We are an equal opportunities company.
If this role aligns to your experience and you are excited about working with a dynamic and innovative business on a freelance basis, then we would love to hear from you.
If this sounds like you and you are excited about joining a young, innovative, and expanding business then we would love to hear from you. To apply, please send your CV and availability to careers@flock-associates.com