Assistant Finance Manager

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We are looking to recruit to an Assistant Finance Manager position in the Finance Team. Reporting to the Head of Finance, the role will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate monthly management accounts, maintaining internal systems, aiding in audits, enhancing financial controls, supporting budgeting and forecasting, mentoring junior members, and fostering teamwork.

Who We Are

We believe that marketing can change the world for the better and that our mission is to help marketing professionals around the world to learn, make better decisions, make better marketing and be more successful.

Our vision is to create the leading destination for marketing insights in the world with a particular focus on brand decision-makers. We think of our audience first, use data intelligently, build on our innovative product range and love using the foundation of our industry - creativity.

With bases in London, Glasgow, New York, Mumbai and Singapore, we inform and inspire readers with content around pillars of content: marketing, creativity, agencies, media, technology, sustainability.

We curate valuable insights in various ways:

• Via our team of journalists
• From the best-in-class work identified through our award shows
• From user-generated content via Open Mic and The Drum Network
• Via content co-created with our clients
• Through the ratings we gather from marketing services buyers on The Drum Recommends.

We deliver it to our audience through multiple channels: articles and reports; TV; audio; live in person at The Drum Labs and elsewhere; online networking/meetings; at industry events.

Key Responsibilities

• Sales rec - Reconcile the sales at the end of each month ensuring revenues balance between our various systems.
• Preparing and processing the required month-end journals, keeping the relevant schedules up to date.
• Providing Reports to Senior Managers - Providing month-end reports, product profitability and any ad hoc requests for financial information.
• Budgeting - Assisting the product leads with the quarterly and annual budgeting process.
• Forecasting - Providing the product leads with revenue and cost forecasts when required.
• Control accounts - ensuring the balance is reflected in the associated schedules and any required adjustments and corrections are processed promptly.
• T&C's payment terms - responding to and setting customer payment terms.
• Credit Control - Be aware of any issues and lease with the relevant product lead to ensure the required finance actions are taken.
• Audits - Assist with the audits ensuring the schedules you are responsible for are accurate and current. Responding to any queries concerning them.
• Sales tax - Ensuring products have the correct sales taxes set.

Requirements

• Experience in delivering management accounts in a timely manner.
• Knowledge of VAT regulations.
• The ability to partner closely with senior management.
• Organized and able to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in Excel
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Benefits

• We work on a hybrid model to ensure you get the best of both worlds - a few days a week in our Shoreditch or Glasgow offices and the rest from home.
• 28 days annual leave
• Got that Friday feeling? We do too - we finish early every Friday!
• People come first at The Drum and so when we achieve our financial goals, we share the profits with the whole team.
• Love events? We have an entire building dedicated to hosting some of the industry's best events, with its own bar and roof terrace! You get VIP access.
• We love to hire super-talented people and we've created a Mentoring Scheme to support your development.
• Supporting others is important to us and we encourage you to do the same with 2x paid charity volunteering days each year.
• We have a Culture Club to be proud of. We host a variety of fun social events, from axe throwing to book clubs and bake offs to name a few.
• We all feel under the weather from time to time but fear not, we provide Enhanced Sick Pay for all our staff.
• Having a "should have gone to Specsavers" moment? Our free Eyecare Vouchers will come in useful.
• Starting a family? Enjoy our Enhanced Family Leave.
• Company Pension for when it's time to kick back and relax.
• Generous Employee Referral Bonuses.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• A creative and engaging company culture right across the business.

Our Mission, Vision and Values

Our MISSION is to help marketing professionals around the world to learn, make better decisions, produce better marketing, and be more successful.

Our VISION is to be the world's leading destination for marketing knowledge, by focusing on our audience, providing data and insights, and creating a platform for recognising success. Our global awards program, TV channel and innovative product range will support the foundation of our industry - creativity.

Our VALUES:

• We aren't happy until we've done what we said we would
• We have high standards
• We only make decisions and conduct ourselves in ways we would be proud to share
• We like to shake things up, but will never be nasty
• We are always a pleasure to work with
• We relish a challenge
• We rejoice in achieving things together
• We go out of our way to give others a leg up