Commercial Finance Manager- Creative Agency- 12month maternity cover

Great opportunity to join an ward winning, fast paced and collaborative global Ad agency!

They produce a variety of work with well known clients and brands and you will be key to make sure the agency remain profitable, working alongside the core finance department.

This role is pivotal to the commercial success of the business, looking at profitability, business partnering with internal stake holders as well as being client facing and supporting on new business pitches.

You will negotiate client contracts and rate cards as well as upskilling other members of the team on best practice.

• £60k-£70k
• Blend of office (London) and remote working
• Flexible start date, but must be in the next month or so

The Role

• Ensuring the agency hits their growth targets and is profitable
• Provide leadership on agency pricing to senior stake holders
• Work closely with non finance people and client leads in particular on resource reforecasting and record in the capacity planning tool
• Lead client negotiations and be the key contact for the client procurement departments
• Challenge your client leads in terms of revenue growth
• Suggest new business growth ideas and cross-sell opportunities across the business
• Prepare commercial input for upcoming pitches
• Represent the commercial team in agency meetings
• Track and analyse revenue growth
• Improve client margins and lead this change and train more junior members of the team how to do this
• Revenue forecasting and client reconciliations and provide narrative
• Track and highlight any over servicing on jobs
• Ensure rate cards are up to date and accurate
• Support in rolling out appropriate finance training to the business
• Data analysis and reporting to ensure general commercial well being of client projects and the agency as a whole
• Review and adapt KPI’s
• Lead client audits on your accounts

The Person

• Fully Qualified accountant or later stages of studying ideally
• From a Creative/ Marketing Agency background is a must
• Comfortable using Excel
• Commercial acumen
• Self-motivated and deadline driven
• The ability to positively influence other team members
• A track record of margin and process improvement

Please note due to the large volume of applications we receive we cannot respond to everyone.

We are committed to ensuring and supporting representation from all backgrounds across the creative industry, irrespective of race, religion, belief, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or socio-economic background.

With this in mind, we welcome applications from all areas of the community. Please do get in touch and let us know if there is any additional support or reasonable adjustments we can cater for, to ensure our process and roles fit your needs and creates a comfortable & enjoyable recruitment process.