Senior Management Accountant

As a Senior Management Accountant, you’ll take ownership of the Media, Marketing and Technology operating cost base, partnering with senior leaders across three of the Group’s largest and fastest-moving areas of spend. This is a newly created role with genuine scope to shape how we manage costs, strengthen financial discipline and support better commercial decisions. You’ll also play an important role in the set-up and implementation of our new ERP. You will be responsible for: • Partnering with Media, Marketing and Technology leaders to support informed commercial decisions. • Owning monthly reporting for the portfolio’s operating costs, including clear explanations of performance against budget and forecast. • Leading the annual budgeting and rolling forecasting processes for your cost base. • Challenging assumptions and assessing the return on spend with budget owners. • Owning month-end accruals, prepayments, journals and reconciliations. • Managing the purchase order process end to end and providing visibility of committed spend. • Designing and maintaining a clear cost centre and account structure with defined ownership. • Supporting the ERP implementation, including cost centre hierarchy, approval workflows, procure-to-pay, testing and training. • Strengthening approvals, delegations and cost management processes. • Building reporting that connects spend with commercial outcomes and helps identify savings opportunities.