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About the Role

This role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with a broad range of teams, providing financial insights and support to ensure data-driven decisions align with business objectives. You will develop relationships across departments, act as a key business partner, and influence decision-making on financial matters. The role also involves building client relationships, understanding their financial needs, optimizing reporting, learning the business in detail, and line managing a finance assistant.

Responsibilities

Act as the commercial finance business partner for Marketing International Services (Agency), supporting Client Service, Partnerships and senior stakeholders with timely analysis, clear commentary and practical recommendations.
Manage annual client financial plans, budgets, forecasts and monthly revenue reviews, ensuring assumptions, variances, risks, opportunities and recommendations are clear, accurate and suitable for senior review.
Ensure revenue and client expense recognition is completed in line with UK GAAP, contractual terms and close deadlines, working with Accounting and client finance teams to maintain appropriate documentation and audit readiness.
Partner with account teams on new revenue streams, retainers and evolving scopes to support accurate financial planning, project set-up, client approvals, billing requirements, contracting, and future pricing decisions.
Oversee monthly client reporting, GM results, project profitability, utilisation, WIP, retainer reconciliations and project closure activity, ensuring insight is meaningful and key risks are resolved or escalated.
Review pricing estimates for retainers and projects, ensuring accuracy, contractual compliance, appropriate profitability and consistency with maintained rate cards, pricing matrices, benchmarking and historical records.
Provide oversight of Balance Sheet accounts, including accrued and deferred income, project WIP and client debtors, ensuring effective controls are in place and trade working capital opportunities are identified and acted on.
Manage billing, trade working capital and audit support activity, ensuring invoices, supporting documentation, audit requests and open queries are accurate, timely and appropriately escalated.
Develop and maintain reporting files, pricing tools, dashboards and finance systems, including PowerBI, Hyperion and AI where relevant, improving the consistency, quality and usability of commercial finance reporting.
Collaborate with regional and cross-functional finance teams to share knowledge, align reporting approaches, improve ways of working and embed consistent controls and client finance processes.
Line manage, coach and develop the Client Finance Analysts, setting priorities, reviewing outputs and ensuring core responsibilities are delivered accurately and consistently.
Support the senior finance team with commercial finance training, onboarding, process improvement and ad-hoc projects that improve commercial acumen, controls and stakeholder experience.

Requirements

At least 5 years’ professional experience with good knowledge of UK GAAP
Professionally qualified or finalist (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)
Excellent attention to detail to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all financial data and processes
Strong communication skills, with an ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with teams across the agency.
Ability to work effectively independently, ensuring information is gathered from the business on time and queries are resolved in a timely manner
A keenness in developing engaging financial reporting
Ability to effectively communicate across the Business and Finance organisation and demonstrate a willingness to generate and share information.
Excellent presentational skills – particularly presenting financial information clearly and as simply as possible to ensure key drivers are understood and actionable
Ability to work closely with management to make informed business decisions
Proficient with Microsoft Office, high-level Excel functionality expected

Skills

Financial acumen
Business partnering
Strong communication skills
Relationship building
Collaboration
Respectfully challenge assumptions
Microsoft Office
Excel functionality
Presentational skills
Financial reporting

Location

London, UK

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

At least 5 years’ professional experience

Education Level

Professionally qualified or finalist (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent)

About the Company

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands.
With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, tms offers an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.
Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, tms engages with over 110 million customers every single day for its clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.
tms is a place where you can achieve great things and be recognised as the best.
Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work.
Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of tms's business.
tms fosters a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspires to be ever-evolving.
tms is a place where brilliant people are better together.