Description
The Finance Manager plays a key role in maintaining robust financial processes, ensuring accuracy in reporting, and providing commercial insight across the Group. The position requires a balance between hands-on accounting and strategic business partnering, with a focus on efficiency, control, and supporting operational teams to make informed decisions.
Essential experience:
- Proven experience in a finance management or senior accounting role, ideally within music, live events, or entertainment industries.
- Strong technical understanding of financial reporting, cashflow forecasting, and control processes.
- Producing accurate, forward-looking cashflows and providing commercial insightto senior leadership.
- Preparing/ reviewing statutory accounts and managing audit relationships.
- Strong Excel and accounting system skills; familiarity with cloud-based systems (e.g. Quickbooks, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Lucanet, or equivalent).
- Experience working with multiple entities or group consolidations.
- Ability to manage tight deadlines and multiple projects in a fast-paced creative environment.
Qualifications
- Fully or part-qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) preferred, or equivalent experience.
- Strong technical accounting and cashflow forecasting skills.
- Experience gained in both SME and larger corporate environment
- Maintain accurate, well-structured accounting systems and records across all business entities.
- Prepare monthly management accounts and consolidated financial reports.
- Deliver forward-looking cashflow forecasts, integrating data from live events, and artist activities.
- Monitor liquidity, working capital, and cashflow performance, highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Partner with senior management and event teams to support commercial decisions, event planning, and investment appraisals.
- Manage the year-end and audit process, including preparation of statutory financial statements under IFRS.
- Oversee VAT, corporation tax, and other compliance filings, liaising with external advisors as required.
- Drive improvements in financial systems, controls, and reporting tools to support growth and efficiency.
- Responsible for budgeting and forecasting, including variance analysis and commentary.
- Maintaining budgets whilst reviewing and challenging event profitability
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