Finance Manager

"Driving Financial Excellence and Strategy as a Finance Manager"
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a successful and established entrepreneur within a fast-growing group of omni-channel marketing and production companies. The group currently has 6 companies in the USA and 2 in the UK, with another 6 more companies to be established.
They work with some of the biggest brands and advertisers in the world, using cutting-edge technologies to produce highly visible and well-known content. This includes VFX, high-end advertising images, and large budget live action shoots.
The owner has an impressive track record, having grown his last business to 100 employees worldwide over 20 years, and achieving an 8-figure exit by selling to a well-known household name in the industry. He is now looking to expand and replicate this business model and scale a sellable business over the next 3 years. The group has already grown rapidly this year and is now on 30 members already.
You will be working for the accountancy firm servicing this company and liaise closely with its owner. They offer remote services to startups and SME’s in the UK and US, placing their members within the client businesses, so that they act as an extension of the client’s in-house team and work closely with them.
As a Finance Manager, you will be responsible for the below duties, to allow the owner of the accountancy firm to work on more consultancy for the client. Some training will be provided for any gaps in your knowledge, but the ability to demonstrate a basic working understanding is required.
Role Vision
· Group Month end close process – reconciling bank accounts, reviewing the General Ledger across all businesses, chasing documentation for missing/unreconciled items, making corrections, etc.
· Management Accounts – checking, producing, and saving down the management accounts, both for the individual companies and for the group as a whole.
· Narrating the financials – summarizing the movements in the accounts and ‘telling the story’ of what has happened, to creative non-financial members.
· Liaising with the bookkeeper to find improvements in the bookkeeping process
· Updating the daily cash balances across the entire group
· Assisting with cashflow forecasting and helping to build out a comprehensive process, which you will run going forwards
· Assisting in building a budgeting and forecasting process across the group, which you will run going forwards
· Assisting in building out the Brex card management system, allocating budgets, and managing the reconciliation process operated by the bookkeeper
· Assisting in setting up the master calendar for statutory reporting and external compliance
· Reviewing statutory accounts and tax returns produced by 3rd party advisors
· Reviewing VAT Returns in the UK
· Running monthly payrolls in the UK and US
· Assistance in populating the master data sheet
· Running the A/P and A/R process – chasing customers for late payment and organizing payment runs for vendors
Skills and Competencies:
* 5+ years relevant experience
*CPA qualified
*UK and/or US experience required
*MUST BE HIGH IN ACCURACY AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
We Offer:
Work Schedule: UK Business hours / Full-time 40 hours a week
Rate: 10 GBP per hour ($12.38 per hour)
Additional Requirements:
-10mbps stable internet connection with backup.
-Working computer/laptop (Minimum Requirement: Processor - Intel i3 or equivalent, RAM - 4GB).
-Minimal to no power outage in your area.