Reporting to: Group Financial Controller
Location: Leeds (Hybrid)
Salary: £45,000 – £55,000
Audience Collective is a group of specialist agencies delivering growth for ambitious brands. We operate as an integrated model, combining specialist agency capability with strong commercial discipline.
Our finance function enables this through robust financial control, reliable reporting, scalable processes and commercially relevant insight that supports decision-making across the Group.
The Group Management Accountant is responsible for the coordination, accuracy and quality of finance outputs across multiple agencies and entities.
The role ensures that core finance processes are delivered accurately, consistently and on time, with clear documentation, strong working-capital visibility and practical commercial insight.
The role acts as the key operational link between transactional finance activity, Finance Business Partners, agency stakeholders and the Group Management Accountant
The role is responsible for supporting:
Month-end close and management reporting
Balance sheet reconciliations and financial control evidence
Multi-entity reporting consistency and intercompany reconciliations
Agency revenue recognition, WIP, accrued income and deferred income review
Working capital, cash flow inputs and debtor/creditor visibility
Payroll coordination and payroll-to-GL reconciliation
Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis support
Finance systems, data quality and process improvement
Audit, year-end and compliance support
The Group Management Accountant is accountable for:
Accuracy, completeness and timeliness of agreed finance outputs
Coordinating month-end and reporting timetables
Reviewing transactional finance outputs for consistency and evidence
Preparing schedules and analysis for Group Management Accountant review
Maintaining process discipline, documentation and data quality
Identifying issues and supporting practical resolution
The role is expected to:
Challenge incomplete, inaccurate or unsupported finance outputs
Coordinate dependencies across transactional finance, FBPs and agency stakeholders
Maintain clear close checklists, evidence trails and issue logs
Highlight reporting, working-capital, payroll, WIP or billing risks early
Escalate where matters require technical judgement, control sign-off or senior decision-making
Escalation to the Group Management Accountant is required for:
Technical accounting judgements
Material balance sheet or reconciliation risks
Unresolved intercompany differences
Revenue recognition, WIP or billing issues with material impact
Significant payroll, VAT, cash flow or compliance risks
Audit or year-end matters requiring judgement
Process ownership issues that cannot be resolved through normal working rhythms
Coordinate month-end close activity across agencies and entities.
Ensure journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations are complete, accurate and supported.
Review finance outputs for consistency, completeness and evidence before escalation.
Support delivery of reporting packs to agreed timelines.
Maintain month-end checklists, action logs and issue trackers.
Support reporting consistency across multiple agencies and entities.
Prepare and maintain intercompany reconciliations and balance schedules.
Assist with consolidation inputs for Group Management Accountant review.
Highlight unresolved differences, inconsistent treatment or data-quality issues.
Support consistent application of agreed reporting processes across entities.
Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are completed monthly and supported by evidence.
Review aged, unreconciled or unusual balances and coordinate follow-up.
Maintain clear documentation and audit trails.
Support VAT, payroll and compliance-related finance processes.
Escalate control issues or judgement-based matters promptly.
Support the monthly review of revenue across retainers, projects, media/pass-through activity and milestone-based work.
Monitor WIP, accrued income, deferred income and billing cut-off.
Work with FBPs and agency stakeholders to identify billing gaps, underbilling, over-servicing or margin leakage.
Support reconciliation between project, billing and finance data.
Escalate material revenue recognition or judgement-based matters to the Group Financial Controller.
Monitor aged debt, creditor positions and working-capital movements.
Support cash flow reporting through accurate debtor, creditor, payroll, VAT and committed-cost inputs.
Work with FBPs and transactional finance colleagues to support debtor follow-up and cash collection visibility.
Highlight cash conversion risks, billing delays and working-capital trends.
Coordinate monthly payroll inputs and validation activity.
Review payroll data for completeness and accuracy, including starters, leavers, salary changes, bonus, commission and absence inputs.
Liaise with HR, payroll providers and finance stakeholders to resolve queries.
Reconcile payroll outputs to the finance system and management reporting.
Maintain payroll documentation and control evidence.
Escalate statutory, pension, benefit or judgement-based payroll matters as required.
Support the annual budget and rolling reforecast processes.
Coordinate finance inputs and ensure submissions are complete and consistent.
Prepare variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods.
Highlight risks, opportunities and emerging trends.
Work with the Head of FP&A and Group Financial Controller to ensure actuals, cash and forecast inputs are aligned.
Produce and validate management reporting outputs.
Provide clear commentary on revenue, margin, costs, working capital and balance sheet movements.
Support the Group Management Accountant with reporting schedules and insight.
Translate finance outputs into practical language for non-finance stakeholders.
Ensure reporting is consistent, timely and decision useful.
Act as a finance contact for agency teams, FBPs and operational stakeholders.
Provide practical guidance on billing, cost coding, working capital and reporting queries.
Challenge inaccuracies, missing evidence or weak financial discipline constructively.
Support commercial conversations with clear data and practical insight.
Escalate material commercial risks to the relevant finance owner.
Maintain finance data accuracy and integrity across relevant systems.
Identify inefficiencies, duplication and manual workarounds.
Support standardisation of finance processes across agencies.
Maintain process documentation and clear handoffs.
Support automation and improved use of finance systems where appropriate.
Work with the Group Management Accountant on improvements to reporting, reconciliations and control processes.
Prepare schedules and supporting documentation for audit and year-end.
Support audit queries within agreed authority.
Maintain evidence for reconciliations, payroll, VAT, intercompany, revenue and working-capital processes.
Escalate technical, statutory or judgement-based issues to the Group Management Accountant.
Support smoother year-end delivery through clean documentation and timely responses.
Support the development of a scalable finance operating model.
Help embed consistent close processes, documentation, controls and reporting standards.
Identify recurring issues and support practical process improvements.
Support integration of new agencies, entities, systems or reporting requirements where required.
Contribute to a finance function that can scale without relying on informal workarounds.
• Hybrid working (Leeds office Tuesday–Thursday)
• 25 days’ holiday + 3 celebration days
• 37.5‑hour working week
• Pension, life insurance and income protection
• EAP and 24/7 virtual GP access
Month-end delivered accurately and on time.
Balance sheet reconciliations completed, evidenced and understood.
Intercompany balances prepared, reviewed and unresolved differences escalated.
Revenue recognition, WIP, accrued income and deferred income reviewed monthly.
Payroll delivered accurately, reconciled and documented.
Working-capital reporting improves debtor, creditor and cash visibility.
Reporting outputs are trusted by the Group Financial Controller, Head of FP&A, FBPs and agency stakeholders.
Budget and forecast support is timely, accurate and clearly evidenced.
Finance processes are better documented, more consistent and less manual.
Errors, rework and unclear handoffs reduce over time.
Stakeholders have confidence in finance outputs and escalation routes.
You will bring:
ACCA/ACA qualified or newly qualified finance experience.
Experience in a Management Accountant, Senior Management Accountant, Group Management Accountant, Assistant Finance Manager or similar operational finance role.
Experience in an SME, agency, professional services, project-led or multi-entity environment.
Strong month-end, management reporting and balance sheet reconciliation experience.
Good understanding of financial control, evidence standards and audit-ready documentation.
Exposure to intercompany reconciliations, multi-entity reporting or consolidation inputs.
Exposure to revenue recognition, WIP, accrued income, deferred income, billing cut-off or project-based accounting.
Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
Experience supporting payroll inputs, payroll validation or payroll-to-GL reconciliation.
Strong Excel and finance systems capability.
Confidence working with non-finance stakeholders and explaining finance clearly.
Strong attention to detail, organisation and follow-through.
Ability to coordinate deadlines and influence quality without direct line authority.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, multi-entity environment with competing deadlines.
Practical, curious and improvement-minded approach to systems, data and process improvement.
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