Associate Comemrcial Finance Director

Hogarth Worldwide Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading creative content production company as an Associate Commercial Finance Director. In this exciting role, you will provide commercial thought leadership, guiding a global team through the complexities of financial performance for top-tier clients. Your expertise will drive profitable growth, innovation, and strategic decision-making, ensuring the best outcomes for clients. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic, collaborative environment where your contributions will shape the future of content experience. If you are ambitious, adaptable, and ready to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Private Medical Care (Bupa)

Life Assurance – four times annual salary

Pension Scheme – Company contribution

Extra day leave on your Birthday

Employee Assistance Programme

WPP Group Discounts

Travel Season Ticket Loan

Mortgage Advice

1 Volunteering day per year

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial financial role with multi-country exposure.
• Strong project management skills and operational awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead business through the commercial landscape to achieve profitable growth.
• Formulate and present strategic plans, budgets, and forecasts.

Skills

Commercial Financial Experience

Project Management

Strategic Decision-Making

Operational Awareness

Communication Skills

Job description

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore. WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500.Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Associate Commercial Finance Director

About Hogarth

Hogarth Worldwide is the world’s leading creative content production company. Born to make the best work brilliantly, we combine craft, insight and technology to bring creative work to life for many of the world’s most famous brands.

Department Summary

What does an Associate Commercial Finance Director do at Hogarth?

This role is based in London, but the team and responsibilities are global.

You will share responsibility for the performance of a portfolio of a global clients with appropriate support of senior members of the Commercial team.

What does an Associate Commercial Finance Director do at Hogarth?

• You will provide commercial thought leadership and be responsible for problem solving and key decision making, supported, where appropriate, by the Head of Commercial and Pricing.
• You will lead the business through the commercial landscape and help the company achieve and maintain a trajectory of profitable growth
• You will understand advertising production, help exploit new business opportunities and bring innovation to the ways of working
• You will become part of the client leadership team(s), with FD-like responsibilities of that business that will include budgeting, P&L ownership and analysis.
• You will formulate, document and present for approval to senior management client strategic plans, budgets, forecasts and results
• As well as developing relationships with clients directly, you will work closely with the account teams to ensure all finance related interactions with the client give the best possible outcomes
• You will take the lead role in contract preparation, renewal, modification etc. and be responsible for guiding and ensuring full contractual compliance
• You will develop pricing strategies by finding mutually beneficial pricing solutions. You will be expected to help the account teams innovate with new business models
• Working alongside the Client Leads you prepare and present new business proposals and commercial propositions and be actively involved in the presentation of these to clients
• Our location-agnostic approach requires decision making to be globally coordinated, globally optimal and locally sympathetic. Flexibility to be available as required by the client in terms of timing is important, so some out of hours commitments will be a feature of the role

Reporting lines and key stakeholders

• This role reports to the London-based Global Head of Commercial and Pricing.
• You will work closely with Global Commercial Finance team, Operations, Client Management and New Business teams.

Requirements

• Experience of working in a commercial financial role in a relevant industry / professional services with multi country experience
• Effective project management
• Strong operational awareness
• Strategic approach to decision-making
• Ambitious and driven
• Comfortable in a dynamic environment; adaptable
• Good communicator, both oral and written

Diversity and Inclusion

Hogarth is committed to diversity and inclusion, through our ideas, our people, how we behave and conduct ourselves. Creating a truly inclusive culture at all levels of the organisation that encourages different points of view, making Hogarth not only a better company and place to work but an environment where everyone experiences connection, opportunity and a sense of belonging.

Hogarth Values

Heart and Soul:We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.

Hands on:We don’t wait for things to happen; we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.

Honest:We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.

Happy family:We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humour.

Hungry:We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment which inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.

Find out more at www.hogarth.com/culture

The Package

• 25 days holiday
• Private Medical Care (Bupa)
• Life Assurance – four times annual salary
• Pension Scheme – Company contribution
• An extra day leave on your Birthday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• WPP Group Discounts
• Travel Season Ticket Loan
• Mortgage Advice – In partnership with Charles Cameron and Associate
• 1 Volunteering day per year

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