Description

Qualified accountant and commercially astute professional with over 10 years of experience in strategic planning, finance, budgeting and analytics in the advertising, media production, content distribution and retail industries.

I have worked in research and media agencies with a wide range of clients and the finance and commercial divisions at major studios and broadcasters, across UK, US and the majority of European territories. This has enabled me to gain a wide set of skills and the ability to quickly adapt to new markets and changing business priorities.

My areas of expertise extend to content production accounting, building planning and budgeting processes, ensuring financial and customer KPI targets are achieved, utilising market intelligence and customer research data to draw focused and actionable insights to optimise marketing support plans and seeking out and delivering partnerships that enable customer growth.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Freelance Production Accountant
Production Accountant (Contract)
FILM AND AV
August 2022 - Today (3 years and 10 months)
London, United Kingdom
- Lead Production Accountant on HETV productions commissioned by major broadcasters
- Preparing, updating and maintaining budget schedules, cost- and variance analysis reports, flagging potential overages in a timely manner and finding cost efficiencies
- Managing AP process and closely tracking outgoings across various company accounts
- Cash Flow forecasting and reconciling floats and purchase card spends
- Rolling up weekly timesheets, preparing and signing off payroll and reports
- Liaising with talent agencies on cast payroll, contracts and pension
- Managing financial system for bank- and balance sheet reconciliation, journal entries, P&L and VAT returns
management accounting Reporting budget preparing and reconciliations cash flow forecasting payroll
Coty
Creative Production Accountant, USA & Europe
FASHION AND COSMETICS
April 2022 - Today (4 years and 2 months)
London, United Kingdom
End-to-end PO management: creation and tracking/ managing approval process of POs and PQs, ensuring timely delivery to vendors
Payments: tracking 3rd party and URN payments, ensuring payments to vendors within terms, managing payment queries
Budget management: track and control production costs and campaign budgets, creation of reconciliations and costs analysis on a regular basis
budget preparing and reconciliations Production Accounting
SKY
Senior Commercial Manager
FILM AND AV
April 2018 - July 2022 (4 years and 3 months)
London, United Kingdom
- Managing business unit’s P&L and setting short- and long-term financial budgets in line with dynamics of market, aligning to wider business objectives and ensuring accuracy and timely delivery to finance teams
- Ensuring financial targets are met, presenting variance analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Developing quarterly planning process, content release and promotional strategy and defining optimum levels of merchandising, marketing support and tactical activities to deliver plans
- Overseeing reporting and developing efficient ways of delivering and presenting data-based insights for both external studio and agency partners and senior internal stakeholders, ensuring suitability for all audiences
- Supporting the acquisitions team on deal negotiations with financial insights and sizing risks and opportunities
Business analysis Reporting Microsoft Excel budget preparing and reconciliations Media