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About the Role
The Finance Manager plays a pivotal role in supporting the Finance Director and driving effective financial management across the business. This is a hands-on position that combines day-to-day financial operations with team leadership and strategic input. Ideal for a recently qualified finance professional with 3 - 4 years of relevant media experience who is ready to take on greater responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Heading up the finance team while reporting to the FD.
- Represent the finance function in internal meetings and discussions.
- Review and approve sales invoices and supplier purchase requests.
- Lead the month-end process, ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
- Oversee project financial management through our Budget Sheet system, ensuring revenue is accurately recognised, costs and media spend are accrued, and project financials remain up to date.
- Line manage, coach, and support two Finance Assistants.
- Maintain high professional standards and deliver excellent internal service.
- Plan and prioritise workload effectively, ensuring clear and timely communication.
- Produce accurate reports, budgets, and forecasts with variance analysis to support decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to improve cost efficiency and financial processes.
- Take ownership of financial operations and reporting for allocated accounts.
- Monitor and analyse financial performance on a monthly and annual basis.
- Support teams by constructively challenging assumptions to help achieve financial targets.
- Support your direct reports by setting clear expectations, giving helpful feedback, and encouraging a positive, collaborative work environment.
- Effectively oversee junior team members, ensuring workloads are sufficiently monitored & prioritised to ensure deadlines are met.
- Continuously monitor, evaluate, and refine team performance by setting clear, measurable goals and providing thoughtful, regular feedback during 1:1s and performance reviews.
- Act as a mentor and support their professional growth through personalised development plans.
- Lead on internal meetings and training sessions, fostering a positive and collaborative team atmosphere.
- Model best practices to inspire and guide team members.
- Contribute to recruitment efforts, conducting interviews and managing onboarding processes to ensure new hires are smoothly integrated into the team.
- Actively look out for your direct report’s mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing, providing support when needed, sharing company resources and escalating to the People Team when necessary.
- Champion equity, diversity and inclusion within the team, fostering an environment where all employees feel valued and respected.
Requirements
- Recently qualified - ACA, ACCA, CIMA.
- 3 - 4 years of relevant work experience in a finance or accounting role.
- Experience in media or service-based businesses.
- Strong understanding of double-entry bookkeeping and core financial principles.
- Advanced spreadsheet skills with proven application in analysis and reporting.
- Confident learning and using new systems, with experience in finance applications.
- Experience improving or implementing financial processes, not just maintaining them.
- Organised, reliable, and detail-oriented with strong time management.
- Positive, proactive, and able to work independently to create structure.
- Previous experience managing or mentoring team members, with a desire to lead.
- Comfortable giving and receiving feedback at all levels.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience using AI to improve workflows and create process efficiencies.
Skills
- Double-entry bookkeeping
- Financial principles
- Advanced spreadsheet skills
- Financial analysis
- Reporting
- Finance systems
- Process improvement
- Process implementation
- Time management
- Communication skills
- AI for workflow improvement
- AI for process efficiencies
Location
- Central London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- 3 - 4 years of relevant work experience
Education Level
- ACA
- ACCA
- CIMA
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary - verified annually through external benchmarking analysis
Benefits
- 25-day holiday allowance excluding Bank Holidays
- Extra time off over the Christmas period
- One extra day’s holiday accrued for the first three years of service
- 3pm finish on a Friday - subject to business requirements
- Enhanced family-friendly and personal leave
- Health cash plan
- Employee assistance programme
- Working from home equipment allowance
- Occasional free tickets to live events
- Structured personal development
- Customised training programme
- Opportunities to attend industry conferences
- Opportunities to help further shape the business culture and agency benefits.
About the Company
- SINE Digital is the pre-eminent disruptive performance marketing agency with offices in London's West End and New York.
- We connect people to the experiences they love through designing and delivering cutting-edge digital solutions for some of the biggest names in live entertainment, fashion and e-commerce.
- Our data-driven expertise in strategic digital marketing consultancy and digital marketing insight is built on years of commercial experience.
- We prioritise our people and are committed to fostering an exceptional work environment and positive company culture.
- Together, we’ve shaped a company that consistently breaks the mould and strives for excellence.
- Today, SINE Digital stands as a collective of fun, passionate, and curious disruptors dedicated to making a mark on the brands and people we work with every day.