Finance Leadership & Control

• Lead the day to day finance function end-to-end, retaining full accountability for allfinancial activity across the business

• Provide clear leadership and direction to the finance team, ensuring continuity, resilience, andeffective cover across all areas.

• Design, implement, and maintain strong financial controls, procedures, and governance frameworks.

• Document key finance processes and ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatoryrequirements.

• Act as a senior finance point of contact for the wider business, supporting stakeholders with financequeries and guidance.

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Hands-On Finance Operations

Act in a hands-on capacity where required, covering:

• Accounts Payable

• Accounts Receivable

• Bank reconciliations

• Management accounts preparation

• Balance sheet reconciliations

• Maintain full ownership of Sage, ensuring accurate postings, reconciliations, and overall dataintegrity.

• Enhance and maintain the Sage Projects module to enable accurate project-level profitabilityreporting.

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Budgeting, Forecasting & Management Insight

• Support the CFO in the preparation, review, and ongoing maintenance of budgets and rollingforecasts.

• Own periodic reforecasting cycles, incorporating operational, sales, and cashflow assumptions.

• Deliver detailed monthly financial analysis, highlighting key variances to budget and forecast.

• Provide clear commentary and insight on performance drivers, risks, and opportunities.

• Build new financial reports, dashboards, and KPIs to support management decision-making.

• Develop improved reporting tools using ERIC, Power BI, Excel, or other appropriate platforms.

• Ensure financial information is accessible, accurate, and tailored to the needs of senior management.

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Revenue, Billing & Debt Management

• Own end-to-end billing processes and aged debt management.

• Personally oversee weekly debt collection activity.

• Review and approve AR uploads within Sage.

• Ensure timely and accurate billing by post-production teams.

• Produce and review the Total Revenue Report, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

• Work closely with Scripted and Unscripted Sales teams on forecasts and revenue tracking.

• Support the automation and improvement of monthly revenue reporting.

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Accounts Payable, Cashflow & Funding

• Oversee Accounts Payable and expenses, reviewing and approving all payments.

• Manage mid-month and month-end payment runs, balancing supplier commitments against tightcashflow.

• Assist with weekly cashflow reporting and short- and medium-term forecasting.

• Handle utilisation requests, drawdowns, and repayments relating to Hilco funding facilities.

• Support the planned transition of cash management responsibilities back to the CFO.

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Management Accounts & Reporting

• Lead the preparation, review, and consolidation of monthly management accounts.

• Deliver full monthly management packs, including:

- Accruals and prepayments

- Intercompany postings

- Fixed assets

- Balance sheet reconciliations

• Ensure reporting is accurate, timely, and clearly explained, with actionable insight for stakeholders.

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ScheduALL, Systems & Data

• Streamline and align ScheduALL processes across Scripted and Unscripted teams.

• Support sales and quoting workflows to ensure accurate financial data capture.

• Ensure all client food and drink charges are correctly recorded in ScheduALL.

• Design and implement a new data management approach and assist with the cleansing of existingScheduALL data.

• Provide ScheduALL support for month-end reporting, forecasting, and utilisation analysis.

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Payroll, Tax & Compliance

• Oversee payroll processing, pension uploads, and resolution of payroll queries.

• Reconcile monthly payroll actuals against budget and forecast, explaining variances.

• Manage VAT returns and ensure ongoing HMRC compliance.

• Handle HMRC payment plans and supplier arrangements where required.

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Audit, Statutory & Team Resilience

• Hold overall responsibility for statutory reporting and the annual audit process.

• Drive cross-training within the finance team to ensure coverage across all critical activities.

• Build resilience into the finance function to maintain continuity during absences and peak workloads.

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This job description is an accurate reflection of the duties of the post at the time of writing but will be changed from time to time to meet the changing requirements of the company