Finance Manager - 12 month FTC

Company Description
Working Title Films, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, is one of the world's leading British production companies, having created well-loved and critically acclaimed film and TV content for 40 years. The company is proud to have created over 130 films and TV programmes that have grossed over $8.5 billion worldwide and they continue to champion new talent through the London Screen Academy and NBC Universal Global Writers Programme.
Working Title projects have received a total of 10 Best Picture Nominations and have won 15 Academy Awards (including Joe Wright's Darkest Hour , Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl , James Marsh's The Theory of Everything , Tom Hooper's Les Misérables , Joe Wright's Anna Karenina , Tim Robbins' Dead Man Walking ; Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo ; Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age ; and Joe Wright's Atonement ), 11 Golden Globes, over 40 BAFTA Awards and numerous prestigious prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.
The company's commercial and critical hits include My Beautiful Laundrette, Sid & Nancy , The Interpreter , About a Boy , Ali G , Notting Hill , Elizabeth , Fargo , Dead Man Walking , Bean , High Fidelity , Johnny English , Billy Elliot , Four Weddings and a Funeral , Bridget Jones's Diary , Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason , A Serious Man , O Brother , Where Art Thou? , Love Actually , Shaun of the Dead , Pride & Prejudice , Nanny McPhee , United93 , Mr. Bean's Holiday , Hot Fuzz , Elizabeth: The Golden Age , Burn After Reading , Frost/Nixon , Atonement , Senna , Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , Contraband , Anna Karenina , Les Misérables , About Time , Rush , Trash , Everest , Legend , The Danish Girl , Hail Caesar! , Bridget Jones's Baby , Victoria and Abdul , Baby Driver , Darkest Hour , Yesterday , Mary Queen of Scots , Rebecca, Emma , The High Note , Last Night in Soho and Cyrano, Ticket to Paradise, Matilda, The Swimmers, What's Love got to do with it?, Polite Society, Blitz, as well as We Are Lady Parts and Everything I Know About Love for Working Title TV.
Recent releases include Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Universal Pictures), The Substance (Mubi), Coralie Fargeat's explosive feminist take on body horror starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, Honey Don't (Focus Features) starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans, and Lena Dunham's eagerly anticipated series, Too Much (Netflix), starring Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe, written and directed by Lena Dunham with original music from Luis Felber.
Working Title's upcoming slate includes Sense and Sensibility (Focus Features), directed by Georgia Oakley and starring Daisy Edgar Jones, Crime 101 (Amazon MGM) , an adaptation of the Don Winslow novella, directed by Bart Layton and starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and Halle Berry, historical drama Pressure (Studiocanal & Focus Features) , directed by Anthony Maras, starring Andrew Scott, Kerry Condon and Brendan Fraser, Finding Emily (Focus Features) , a romantic comedy set in Manchester, written by Rachel Hirons, directed by Alicia MacDonald and starring Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn, Three Bags Full (Amazon MGM), starring Hugh Jackman, Nicolas Braun, Nicolas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Hong Chau and Emma Thompson, as well as Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole (Netflix) series adapted by leading crime-writer Jo Nesbø from his best-selling books, directed by Øystein Karlson, starring Tobias Santelmann and Joel Kinnaman.
This programming exemplifies Working Title's commitment to pushing boundaries and embracing diverse narratives that resonate with contemporary audiences.
Job Description
The Finance Manager reports to the Head of Finance and will be joining Working Title's Finance Team of 5 people. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with a possibility to become a permanent employee. The role is based in Central London and is fully office based.
The Finance Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day operational running of the finance function including month and quarter end processes, annual financial audit, management accounts and forecasting.
Duties and responsibilities:

• Approve new vendors & accounts payable invoices, release payment runs while monitoring cashflow. Post journals to transfer AP detail from subsystem to the company's main accounting package. Understand the intricacy of cost recognition and supervise & support 2 finance staff in this area.
• Review and approve accounts receivable invoices and ensure production costs are recharged timely & correctly. Effectively resolve any issues. Work with the Finance Assistant to ensure collections are closely monitored.
• Review and approve credit card reconciliations prepared by the Finance Assistant and Assistant Management accountant, across multiple companies and currencies. Ensure tax is correctly accounted for and spend is in line with company policies.
• Full responsibility for the group's month end process to ensure the team's work is coordinated and each month is closed as per group reporting deadlines.
• Prepare monthly management accounts and forecast against annual overhead budget and review these with the Head of Finance.
• Prepare monthly reports for parent company's controllership team and sign off periodic reconciliation reports.
• Act as first point of contact for the financial auditors and ensure a smooth annual process including preparation of all workings requested by the auditors, adjustment journals and statutory accounts as well workings required by the tax team.
• Prepare monthly development expenditure reports and monitor budgets.
• Responsible for the company's day to day cash management across multiple companies, countries and currencies including the preparation of monthly funding requests and the management of the intercompany payment cycle.

Qualifications
Skills and experience:
The Finance Management will be:

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA and industry training preferred)
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience gained in an all-round role in a similar industry, preferably in a production company.
• A confident and effective communicator at all levels
• High energy and passionate with a strong work ethic and can-do attitude
• Passionate for Film, TV & Theatre

Additional Information
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