Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

• Lead FP&A activities for designated areas of the business.
• Analyse actual performance against budget and prior periods, identifying key trends, risks and opportunities.
• Provide meaningful financial commentary to support business decision-making.
• Assist in developing financial models to assess strategic and operational decisions including scenario analysis.
• Identify potential areas of financial risk and work with stakeholders to develop appropriate actions.
• Support the annual budgeting process and the production of forecasts including cash flow.

Business Partnering

• Act as a Finance business partner to designated departments across the business.
• Build effective working relationships with department heads.
• Provide regular financial reporting and insight to non-Finance stakeholders.
• Challenge assumptions and expenditure where appropriate and support department heads to identify opportunities to improve financial performance while managing costs.
• Develop a strong understanding of the operational drivers of the areas supported.
• Work with the Commercial team to ensure timely debt collection.

Accounting

• Take ownership of monthly reporting for designated areas of the business including balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure that financial information is accurate, timely and clearly presented.
• Investigate significant variances, provide clear explanations and make recommendations.
• Support the preparation of Group and management reporting.
• Raise invoices to Commercial advertisers and reconcile the Commercial billing system (AdPoint) with the accounting system (Xero).
• Provide regular updates and reports on aged debts and proactively chase overdue invoices.
• Be the first point of contact during the audit for designated areas.