Finance Manager

Finance Manager

10 month contract

£400-£450 umbrella a day

Hybrid Working

Halliday Marx have partnered with an established media company to recruit a Finance Manager on an interim basis for 10 months.

Our client work on a hybrid model with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Responsibilities:

· The aim of the Finance workstream is to deliver fit for purpose international Finance and Corporate Tax policies, standards, and business practices.

· The role will work with UK-based and international colleagues located across approximately 60 international bureaux.

· The workstream will review and document existing policies, standards, and business practices.

· It will then propose improvements to those policies, standards, and business practices with an emphasis on a standardised approach and fit for purpose / best in practice quality standards.

· Once agreed the updated policies, standards and business practices will be documented and shared with relevant bureaux and UK Head Office teams.

· The Finance Manager will lead and document weekly workstream meetings ensuring that Finance plan deliverables are proactively managed and delivered, and risks / issues / dependencies are highlighted.

· There will be a particular focus for this role on Finance policies, standards, and business practices. In addition, the workstream team will include a Corporate Tax representative as well as a project manager who will be responsible for coordinating the roll-out of QuickBooks or other accounting solutions to the bureaux. The Finance workstream lead will coordinate all these activities in the workstream plan and meetings.

· The role will also provide Finance expertise and insight as required by the project including financial analysis and reporting for the project.

Requirements:

· Professional accounting qualification ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.

· Experience of working on Finance projects and contributing to or ideally leading Finance workstream teams.

· Experience of dealing with international based colleagues.

· Experience of working with and the analysis and interpretation of financial information.

· Significant experience of the application of Finance governance and control principles.

· Highly developed written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence business and Finance stakeholders.