Senior Commercial Finance Executive
Join us as a Senior Commercial Finance Executive! You’ll support key finance operations, handle month-end processes, and collaborate with AP and credit teams.
- Job Title: Senior Commercial Finance Executive
- Level & Responsibility: This role might be better known as Junior Commercial Finance Manager in other businesses.
- Salary: £33,000+ per annum, depending on experience plus a 10% bonus scheme
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Location & Hybrid Working: 1 day in the office per week, London
The role
We are looking for a Senior Commercial Finance Executive to join our Finance team at SMG. In this role, you will support the SMG Commercial Finance team by providing accurate reporting for LSEleven, Boots Media Group, and FMCG businesses. You’ll assist with Month End processes, handle client queries, and help manage Brand Investment and Margin figures. You'll also collaborate with Accounts Payable and Credit Control teams to facilitate invoicing and payments, while contributing to streamlining and improving financial processes.
Why SMG?
We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years.
We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...
💰 10% discretionary bonus scheme
🧘♂️ £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions
🫶 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing
📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development
🎧 Free headspace subscription
🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round
🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year
Why you?
In line with our company values, within your role you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have / be:
- A high level of organisation and communication
- Proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets
- Ability to understand basic accounting principles.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Around 1 years’ plus experience in a Finance related role
- A high attention to detail and inquisitive mindset
- Finance related qualification (Ideally a BSc/BA)
- A collaborative individual who enjoys working as part of a wider team
P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing
We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:
- Dashboard & Reporting Management: Oversee Power BI refreshes, ensure accurate entry of campaign data, and maintain correct formulas in Google Sheets and Excel. Update budgets and refresh dashboards as needed.
- Monthly Reporting: Prepare monthly finance reports, finalise credits and adjustments, and collaborate with client teams to ensure accurate figures. Manage POs and assist Operations with invoicing.
- Accounts Payable Support: Assist with queries, attend AP update meetings, and ensure necessary information is provided for invoice processing.
- Credit Control Support: Help resolve overdue invoice queries, attend credit control meetings, and update reporting numbers accordingly.
- Ad Hoc Support: Provide financial support for direct invoicing, insufficient reporting, budget comparisons, and various client and booking team requests.
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Senior Commercial Finance Executive
Join us as a Senior Commercial Finance Executive! You’ll support key finance operations, handle month-end processes, and collaborate with AP and credit teams.
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