Financial Planning and Analysis

• Process UK and US invoices using NetSuite
• Match invoices against purchase orders and verify supporting information and approvals
• Support supplier payment runs, currently twice weekly
• Process payments using Kyriba
• Prepare and manage payments to Kobalt clients
• Complete supplier statement reconciliations and investigate discrepancies
• Support bank and account reconciliations
• Process employee expenses
• Produce purchase ledger reports and maintain accurate financial records
• Enter financial information into internal systems, including the royalties database
• Respond to invoice, supplier and payment queries and take ownership through resolution where appropriate
• Follow Finance processes, procedures and controls
• Support the broader Finance team with ad-hoc tasks and projects
• Identify opportunities to simplify, improve accuracy and increase Finance process efficiency

Finance Assistant

• Lead production, scheduling, and external audit liaison for MAG’s UK annual statutory accounts
• Supervise compliance accounts for overseas programmes and support HQ sample collation for donor audits
• Support development, communication, and enforcement of internal financial policies and controls
• Oversee month-end closure, balance sheet reconciliations, and accounts payable/receivable functions
• Authorise supplier payments and manage global programme fund transfers
• Control quarterly VAT submissions
• Support monthly management accounts and the HQ Annual Business Plan
• Drive continuous process and control improvements
• Assist with periodic cash forecasts, working capital reports, and schedules for future currency trades
• Manage the financial impact of foreign exchange fluctuations and regularly revalue balance sheet accounts
• Monitor organisational cash balances to maximise short-term deposit income while maintaining liquidity parameters
• Plan, prioritise, and communicate workloads for the Corporate Finance team
• Manage, motivate, and mentor team members, identifying training needs and supporting professional growth
• Cultivate continuous improvement within the team to optimise daily operations and add value to MAG
• Serve as a central contact for internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers, banks, and payroll providers, resolving queries and providing financial support

Corporate Finance Manager

• Build and grow your own client bank
• Provide financial advice to clients
• Focus on advising, building relationships and growing your business
• Generate and develop your own business opportunities over time
• Deliver great client outcomes
• Work with in-house paraplanning, personal assistance and compliance support
• Collaborate with support teams across advice, paraplanning, administration and compliance

Financial Adviser

• Act as primary finance partner to Marketing leadership, delivering constructive commercial insight and strategic planning support.
• Build data-driven marketing investment frameworks to evaluate campaign effectiveness, acquisition costs, and customer lifetime value.
• Oversee monthly financial reporting, spend tracking, and long-term budget forecasting across marketing channels.
• Partner with Brand, Commercial, and Subscriptions Finance teams to align marketing spend with overall commercial strategy.
• Develop reporting dashboards and financial tools to improve visibility of marketing ROI and retention metrics.
• Evaluate marketing investment options across brands to optimize commercial returns and support subscription growth.
• Track marketing spend, manage monthly performance reporting, and build reporting dashboards.
• Evaluate campaign ROI, customer retention metrics, and long-range budgeting.

Senior Commercial Finance Manager, Marketing

• Lead month-end close activities for assigned legal entities and service lines
• Prepare and review complex journals, including accruals, prepayments, intercompany transactions, reallocations and reclassifications
• Ensure compliance with Group accounting policies and reporting requirements
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and resolve reconciling items
• Review revenue recognition, deferred income, WIP, accruals and project accounting transactions
• Support statutory audits and provide audit evidence
• Investigate accounting issues and recommend appropriate accounting treatments
• Deliver accurate financial information within reporting deadlines
• Provide financial analysis supporting Finance Managers and business stakeholders
• Lead queries arising from service line P&L reviews and provide commentary on financial movements, unusual transactions and risks
• Build relationships with Finance Business Partners, Commercial Finance teams, Project Operations and business leaders
• Act as the first point of contact for accounting queries
• Present financial information and accounting issues to stakeholders
• Maintain financial controls, monitor compliance and identify accounting risks
• Review aged balances and recommend corrective actions
• Provide technical guidance to junior accountants and support onboarding and training
• Lead process improvement, standardisation, automation and transformation initiatives
• Support system implementations and develop reporting tools, dashboards and accounting documentation
• Lead responses to audit and compliance queries and recommend improvements for control weaknesses

Financial Accountant

• Full ownership of Sage Intacct month-end close and related reporting tasks for all entities related to the assigned business line
• Produce timely and accurate monthly Management Accounts for the business line
• Enrich GL data to enable development of system-generated automated reporting
• Critically assess existing operational downstream business processes and recommend and implement best-in-class scalable and robust processes
• Review core business controls to validate P&L and complete Balance Sheet reconciliations and substantiation
• Act as intermediary between the Manchester-based SSC and London-based business partners/stakeholders
• Support IFRS 15 Revenue Accounting review and enhancement of Management Information
• Support development and implementation of the Group Financial Controls Framework, focusing on process integrity
• Prepare and review business line entity annual financial statements
• Support quarterly VAT reconciliations and submission
• Prepare assigned sections of Group reporting at half-year and year-end
• Own the day-to-day relationship with the Big-4 external auditor for subsidiary business line financial statements
• Support the annual budgeting process through close business partnership with the professional services team
• Contribute to the development of cohesive, efficient and effective Finance team processes
• Attend required meetings, contribute positively to the Law Deb culture, comply with applicable regulatory rules, and undertake other tasks directed by senior management

Finance Manager

• Lead production of accurate statutory and regulatory reporting information for the investment portfolio
• Manage month-end close and quarterly Solvency UK/II asset reporting
• Lead annual production of climate reporting figures
• Manage and develop direct reports, supporting career development
• Analyse and challenge large data sets and resolve issues with external parties and internal stakeholders
• Build understanding of customer data requirements and embed them into team processes
• Develop relationships with third-party service providers, internal asset-data customers and Finance colleagues
• Lead process improvements, automation and digital activity using Power BI, Power Query and Power Automate
• Provide analysis of financial performance, key drivers and business outcomes
• Lead and support change initiatives and projects, including process, system and reporting upgrades

Investment Accounting Manager

• Consolidate budgets and forecasts across the R&D organisation
• Support planning presentations and resolve issues as they arise
• Analyse R&D expenses by function, account, FTE and major expenditure during budget and forecast cycles
• Work with Business Partners to explain spend and variance drivers
• Act as global owner of the R&D financial planning system, including cost centre hierarchies, active GL accounts, user security, system issues and user support
• Report actual performance against budget and forecast
• Support reporting throughout each planning cycle
• Identify improved reports, retire obsolete reports and contribute to Seqirus FP&A improvement initiatives
• Handle ad hoc analyses and data requests
• Provide back-up to the Business Partner team on planning requirements
• Consolidate month-end results, forecasts, budgets and strategic plan submissions to Group Finance and internal customers

R&D Analyst, FP&A

• Conduct contract analysis and check the quality of other analysts’ work
• Capture clauses under pre-defined fields
• Prepare contract templates (calibration)
• Work with commercial, public, MSA, NDA, and SOW contracts
• Train and oversee Contract Analysts performing contract review
• Implement and maintain quality control
• Assist in producing hand-offs of multiple deliverables for clients, often on tight timelines
• Assist with preparation of training materials
• Provide feedback for teams
• Serve as a primary escalation point for team members and clients when applicable
• Work on legal and regulatory projects for large global clients across Financial Regulations, Corporate Restructuring, and Commercial Mandates
• Support complex financial services documents and high-value commercial contracts

Associate, Financial Services Documentation

• Develop and maintain near-term and long-term financial models across the Group
• Consolidate entity-level models across four business units, more than two dozen entities, and over a dozen active country presences into Group-level outputs
• Coordinate annual budget preparation across the strategic finance team and broader entity finance teams
• Support the CFO in identifying and managing trade-offs across growth, returns, and liquidity through capital allocation
• Evaluate the impact of new business lines, products, services, and other investments
• Provide financial outlooks at month end and support month-end reporting and analysis
• Support Group CFO with investor relations Q&A preparation
• Summarise and convey monthly financial and strategic material for the Group
• Prepare ad hoc investor relations requests and quarterly board content
• Support debt and equity funding and projects affecting capital structure, allocation, and financial risk
• Assist with information memorandum preparation, due diligence, financial reports, and lender Q&A
• Manage monthly and ad hoc Group guarantees, LC issuance, and capital allocation processes
• Evaluate business cases for new requests and investments

Financial Planning and Analysis jobs in United Kingdom