Finance Manager

Broad Finance Manager role within a growing creative business, with ownership across project finance, reporting and commercial support.

Salary: £60,000-£65,000

Location: East London | Hybrid

We're partnering with a growing creative business looking to hire a Finance Manager into their team. This is a broad, hands-on role offering ownership across the day-to-day finance function, alongside exposure to project accounting, commercial reporting and process improvement.

Working closely with senior leadership and teams across the business, you'll oversee finance from project budgeting and profitability through to month-end reporting, cashflow and transactional finance. With the business continuing to grow, you'll also play an important role in developing processes and ensuring the finance function provides useful, commercially focused support to the wider team.

• Taking ownership of month-end reporting and ensuring accurate, timely management information
• Working alongside delivery teams to provide financial oversight across live projects
• Reviewing project performance, including spend, revenue, margins and profitability
• Managing the core transactional finance processes across both payables and receivables
• Monitoring working capital and providing visibility over short and medium-term cash requirements
• Ensuring balance sheet accounts and financial records are accurate and well maintained
• Providing finance support across payroll, expenses and other employee-related processes
• Managing VAT requirements and supporting wider compliance activity
• Coordinating the finance elements of year-end alongside external advisers
• Producing commercial analysis and reporting for senior leadership
• Developing existing controls, systems and processes to support continued growth

• Previous finance experience within the events industry would be a significant advantage, particularly within a project-led environment
• Candidates from broader creative, experiential, production or agency backgrounds will also be considered
• AAT qualified, studying towards ACA/ACCA/CIMA, or able to demonstrate strong relevant experience
• Experience in a broad, hands-on finance role covering both month-end and day-to-day finance
• Strong commercial understanding, with experience working with project budgets, costs, margins and profitability
• Procim experience would be a major advantage
• Experience with multi-currency finance, international transactions or improving systems and processes would be beneficial

• Salary of £60,000-£65,000
• A flexible hybrid working arrangement
• 25 days' holiday in addition to bank holidays
• Broad exposure across both operational and commercial finance
• The chance to work closely with senior leadership in a growing creative business
• Plenty of scope to improve systems, processes and ways of working

If you're looking for a broad Finance Manager role combining hands-on accounting with project finance and commercial exposure, we'd love to hear from you.