Senior Management Accountant

London, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Management Accountant to support Iris’ European finance teams. The role requires a part qualified accountant who has experience with month end processes and revenue recognition. You will be a key member of the European Finance team ensuring accurate and prompt reporting to Group Finance and Commercial reporting to the Board as well as the client teams. There is an emphasis on commercial finance, understanding the client relationships and working closely with the client teams to support in month reporting and forecasting future revenues. This role offers an opportunity to manage junior members of the team. This role reports into the European FC.

How you'd spend your day

• Business Partnering: Build internal relationships with key account leads, support them in commercial decision making, managing the finance on their client portfolios including risk and client balance sheets. Sharing regular updates with the finance leadership team.
• Commercial Financial Management: Supporting the finance leadership team with ad-hoc commercial tasks, including reviewing and assessing client performance, client chargeability as well as agency performance and chargeability. Support the finance leadership team in forecasting and budgeting.
• Month End Process: Responsibilities for ensuring accurate recognition of revenue, accruals and prepayments.
• Revenue Recognition : Helping improve our existing revenue recognition processes in line with IFRS 15. Working closely with the client service teams to gain a good understanding of projects in process.
• London BS Control: Producing Agency review packs for one entity within the Group and following up on BS actions identified from monthly Agency Pack reviews, including resolving reconciling items, improving reconciliation quality, and streamlining processes for better control and visibility.
  
  

What we're looking for

• Part Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with a minimum of 2 years of experience in industry.
• Someone who is unafraid to tackle data analysis.
• Experience operating in a fast-paced environment with tight reporting deadlines.
• Experience collaborating and gaining the trust of senior leaders and peers.
• Previous agency experience would be a benefit, mindset, capability and drive are the priority.
• Advanced Excel experience.
• Experience using Maconomy beneficial but not required.
  
  

Who are we?

About Iris

We are Iris. The Participation Agency. With over 1000 people in 14 offices worldwide, we use the power of Participation to help brands grow further, faster. We combine creativity, data-driven media and the power of people to help brands, such as Samsung, adidas, Bentley, Pizza Hut, Beiersdorf and Samsonite, explode into cultural moments and embed themselves in people’s lives

Our office

London is our HQ. In our riverside office you’ll find 300 talented people working with ambitious client partners. We’re the lead strategic & creative agency for adidas TERREX, Pizza Hut Delivery and Abrdn. And we’re a specialist partner for NIVEA and Samsung, to name a couple.

The Iris Character

We have five core behaviours that we look for to help us to build a culture that fosters true progress: Courage, Storytelling, Collaboration, Empathy and Commitment.

What's in it for you?

• Flexible working – we offer you a balance of home and office working and the opportunity to choose your days when it suits you best
• Core hours – whether you want to enjoy an early gym session or pick up your children from school, you have the option to manage your own hours
• Vitality private health care
• BUPA dental care

• Pension scheme
• Enhanced Maternity package
• 4 months full pay after 1 years’ service
• 6 months full pay after 2 years’ service
• Enhanced Paternity package
• 4 weeks full pay after 1 years’ service
• IVF support – giving you flexibility to attend appointments and recover from procedures
• Additional Parental support – meaning you can be there for your family’s important moments’
• Personal access to our independent Financial Advisor
• Group income protection
• Sabbatical after five years of service
• Bike to Work Scheme
  

Holiday

• 25 core days’ holiday
• Three extra days can be used for religious holidays
• Plus your birthday day off
• Plus an extra day after three and five years of service
• Climate Exchange Day
  
  

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

‘FOR THE FREE’ Is Our Global DE&I Strategy. Its Aim Is To Create a Business Where Everyone Feels Free To Be Themselves And Has The Same Opportunity And Access To Progress. Our DE&I Strategy Encourages Courageous Thinkers Who Champion Outsider Perspectives. ‘FOR THE FREE’ Has Three Main Pillars Of Activity

Diversity - We want to invite difference. To be an organisation that is fully representative of different groups and reflects the city, country and world that we live in. We value our talents’ lived experiences – including gender, race, class, disability, neuro-diversity and sexual orientation.

Equity - We want to be fair to everyone. To remove barriers for individuals and groups and provide the bespoke access, support and opportunities that are needed to fully participate in our organisation. We are levelling the playing field.

Inclusion - We want everyone to feel at home. To provide a place where people can be themselves, express their unique identity and contribute to the life of our community

Privacy Statement

If you decide to apply for a role at Iris we will only keep the data provided by you for 2 years from the date we receive it, following which your data will then be destroyed. We have a legitimate interest to process the data you provide us and we will protect your rights in accordance with all applicable data legislation. If at any point you decide you would like us to delete the data we hold or have any more questions please email us at dpo@iris-worldwide.com.

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We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and recruit on talent alone, regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, education, class, sexual orientation or disability. We champion diversity and believe it not only benefits, but enhances our creativity, our company and the wider society at large. We are For The Forward.