Role: UK Revenue Accountant 

Location: London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid - 2 days on site)

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the UK Revenue Accountant will play a lead role in delivering rigorous commercial best practice approach to our client work. You will be part of a “best in class” team of commercially minded and client centric revenue accountants that provide proactive support to the business to drive profitable growth. As part of the finance business partnering team, you will provide excellent support to client teams and bring your financial expertise to the table.  

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...

• You are an advocate for promoting positive sustainable behaviours and able to put a sustainability lens on the strategic and creative process.

• You will be open and willing to attend Change the Brief training and soak up recommended research and reading about sustainability issues.

ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

You will be reporting into the Finance business partner relevant to your portfolio of clients.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

You will be responsible for the day to day financial management of a portfolio of clients with total revenue of c£15M. Your specific responsibilities for your clients will include:

Monthly Revenue Reporting

• Consistently deliver in line with all agreed monthly deadlines 
• Report accurately and in line with US GAAP (soon to be SOX compliant shortly)  
• All intercompany transactions recorded and reported accurately 
• Provision of clear and informative explanations to the Business Partner on all material variances between final revenue recognised and previous forecast  
• Ensuring all necessary support for revenue recognition is housed within the systems for year-end/client audit purposes 

Working Capital Management 

• Monthly reconciliations of all working capital balances (accrued and deferred revenue etc) 
• Agreement of all balances with client leads 
• Escalation of all aged and high-risk items to the relevant business partner to ensure timely actions are taken 
• Active participation at the monthly working capital meeting with the CFO 

Client Team Support 

You will be the day-to-day financial contact for your client leads & as such responsible for:  

• Providing excellent day to day support on all aspects of client P&Ls including the rolling full year forecasts 
• Providing “super user” support for teams on the financial set up of OMG (bespoke Oliver billing system)  
• Running effective weekly WIP reviews with client teams 
• Supporting teams in meeting all key monthly cut off dates for revenue recognition 
• Generally providing first class financial support to your client teams 

General 

• Active member of the UK finance team that contributes to process improvements and efficiency enhancements particularly around accurate forecasting each week 
• Successfully supporting the driving and adoption of commercial best practice within the business:

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

IDEAL EXPERIENCE

• Part-qualified accountant or by experience - (ACCA or CIMA) study package included as appropriate 
• Proven experience of working effectively with billing/sales order processing systems 
• Can demonstrate ability with understanding and successfully using an ERP system - Netsuite/Adaptive insights experience an advantage but not a necessity 
• Commercial acumen 
• Proven ability to analyse large volumes of data 
• Experience within a professional services agency/business & a passion, enthusiasm for understanding the industry  
• Experience dealing with managing revenue from large international customers – including project and asset-based revenue 
• Strong working knowledge of UK GAAP and US GAAP  
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-pressured and unstructured environment
• Resilient - be adaptive and agile to changing requests and priorities
• Ability to work well with multiple projects and deadlines and delivering in the required timelines 

OTHER PERSONAL CAPABILITIES

• Excellent stakeholder management 
• Excellent time management skills (deadlines consistently met)  
• Commercially minded 
• Champions first class internal customer service 
• An excellent communicator  
• Ambitious, yet collegiate, humble, fair, and balanced  
• Very likable, warm and generous  
• Strong ethics and integrity – respects diversity 

Job Id: 9869

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ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

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OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far-reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.