THE COMPANY
Our client operates a
multi-stream IP and rights-management business centred on licensing and
extending the use of a legacy brand across global media.
THE ROLE
Lead the finance
processing team to ensure the effective and timely delivery of all financial
operations.
Key responsibilities:
- Supervision
and development of a team of four
- Lead
and manage core finance operations, including sales invoicing, purchase
ledger processing, bank transactions, and approval workflows
- Oversee
the preparation of management accounts, programme P&Ls, consolidation
adjustments, and financial performance reporting
- Manage
specialised reporting requirements, including royalties, third-party
participations, commissions, TV residuals, and profit reporting.
- Ensure
compliance with statutory, tax, and regulatory requirements, including VAT
returns, corporation tax, statutory accounts, audits, and withholding tax
controls
- Maintain
robust financial controls through balance sheet reconciliations, fixed
asset management, amortisation calculations, and accurate financial record
keeping
- Administration
and troubleshooting all systems
- Run
licensee royalty audit process
- Improve
financial processes, including looking for automation opportunities.
THE PERSON
You will be a
qualified accountant with substantial post-qualification experience, including
operating at (at least) Financial Controller level within a commercial
environment and overseeing a full finance function.
An effective people
leader, you will have experience managing, developing and mentoring finance
teams, with a genuine passion for building capability and driving high
performance.
You will possess
strong technical accounting expertise, including leading month-end, year-end
and audit processes, preparing statutory accounts, consolidations and
reconciliations, and applying UK GAAP (FRS102) knowledge in practice.
You will have
excellent stakeholder management skills, advanced Excel capability, and
experience improving financial controls, systems and reporting processes.
Experience with Sage 50, Salesforce, and the Media, Entertainment, Licensing or
Creative sectors would be advantageous.
Searchlight strives to promote equal opportunities for all. We
welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual
orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or
belief.
To learn more about Searchlight, see: www.searchlight.global.
For further information or to apply, please contact cathy@searchlight.global.