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About the Role

This is a key operational finance role responsible for the end-to-end management of artist reporting, artist and consignor payments, and global sales invoicing. The role acts as a critical link between Finance, Sales, Registrars, Artist Liaison teams, and external Artist Studios, ensuring artists receive accurate, timely, and transparent financial reporting while supporting global invoicing processes. The successful candidate will combine strong financial controls, excellent organizational skills, and a service-oriented approach to drive process improvements and support finance transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly artist and consignor statement process, ensuring timely reporting and payments in line with obligations.
• Own the transformation of artist reporting, collaborating across finance, sales, and artist teams.
• Serve as the senior finance point of contact for artists, estates, studios, and their accountants, building trusted relationships.
• Partner with artist and sales liaison teams as required.
• Provide strategic oversight and support for global invoicing across all White Cube entities.
• Provide senior-level cover and support for the Associate Director, Global Invoicing during absences.
• Support the development and consistent application of invoicing policy, standards, and controls.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex or non-standard transactions.
• Support the consistent application of Group revenue recognition policy across entities.
• Own the transformation roadmap for the artist-to-cash cycle, including automation, standardization, and system enablement.
• Act as the process owner for Sage Intacct and inventory system functionality related to sales, invoicing, artist reporting, and settlements.
• Support the end-to-end sales commission process, ensuring accurate calculations and timely payments.
• Review and approve commission calculations prior to payment.
• Partner with Management Accounting on commission accruals, forecasting, and reporting.
• Act as the finance escalation point for commission queries from commercial teams.
• Own aged debtor reporting, supporting commercial teams.
• Own PCI compliance for credit cards.
• Act as the primary contact for external audit on revenue, receivables, and artist balances, resolving queries directly.
• Coach and develop direct reports and the broader team towards a best-in-class artist-to-cash function.
• Foster a culture of accuracy, ownership, service, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Significant experience in artist accounting, royalty accounting, settlements, receivables, or a closely related finance function.
• Experience operating within a multi-entity, multi-currency international environment.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and developing a team.
• Track record of delivering process improvement and system-enabled change.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility with senior commercial colleagues and with artists and their representatives.
• Comfortable interpreting contracts and commercial terms and translating them into financial outcomes.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent qualification.
• Experience within the art market, auction house, luxury goods, publishing, music, or licensing sectors.
• Knowledge of artist agreements, commission structures, and royalty-based payment models.
• Familiarity with Artist Resale Right and related obligations.
• Experience of Sage Intacct or a comparable ERP system.

Skills

• Financial controls
• Organizational skills
• Service-oriented approach
• Process improvement
• Finance transformation
• Stakeholder management
• Contract interpretation
• Sage Intacct
• ERP systems

Location

• White Cube Bermondsey

Work Type

• Full-time
• Monday to Friday

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent qualification

About the Company

• White Cube is one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries, representing internationally recognised artists across locations including London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul.
• The Finance team supports a complex global business operating across multiple legal entities, currencies and jurisdictions.