Senior Finance Manager

What You'll Do

The Senior Finance Manager will join the EMEAI finance function, reporting directly to the Senior Director, Finance. In this role, you will own the day-to-day financial accounting and reporting for multiple EMEA entities and Entertainment brands, ensuring accurate month-end reporting, balance sheet integrity and compliance with group requirements.

Key responsibilities include management accounts, royalty and other income accounting, intercompany and transfer pricing, tax and shareholder distributions, balance sheet reconciliations and US Group reporting.

What You'll Be Working On

• Ownership of the Income Statement and Balance Sheet across multiple EMEA entities and Entertainment Brands.
• Responsible for timely and accurate delivery of Management Accounts.
• Accounting and review of royalty income, commission, production expense, payroll, rent, accruals, prepayments, travel expense, depreciation and other areas of the income statement.
• Maintain the transfer pricing model and relevant journals.
• Calculate and post management fee and corporation tax provision journals.
• Prepare the non-controlling interest workpaper.
• Ownership of quarterly shareholder distributions workpaper, accounting and reporting.
• Prepare and submit necessary period end schedules to US Group.
• Ownership of Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare all inter-company journals and reconciliations.
• Partner with these key stakeholders and drive the function forward:
  • Finance Business Partner on reporting and other analysis.
  • Third parties and Finance Manager on audits, new contracts and acquisitions.
  • Wider US Finance group on new accounting matters.
  • Brand, Studio, Business Development and support teams to ensure accounting is complete and accurate.
  • Finance Director on day-to-day activities. Recommend and drive improvement and optimum efficiency across all of finance processes whilst maintaining a robust control environment.

Must Haves

• ACCA/ACA and Bachelor's degree with a finance/business background.
• 6+ PQE experience within the Entertainment and/or Lifestyle industry.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Oracle NetSuite.
• Excellent communication skills verbal and written.
• Excellent analytical and organisational skills.
• Ability to be a strong business partner with both internal and external parties.
• Someone who is a self-starter, energetic and ambitious.