Client Audit Executive – Temporary Contract

Talon Outdoor Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative agency as a Client Audit Executive, where your analytical skills will play a crucial role in ensuring accurate financial processes and maintaining strong relationships with clients and suppliers. This temporary contract position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a pioneering firm in the outdoor advertising sector, known for its commitment to excellence and sustainability. Be part of a collaborative team that values your insights and encourages process improvements, all while driving the growth of a highly effective and creative industry. If you're detail-oriented and passionate about making a difference, this role is for you!

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to question variances.
• Operational experience with reconciling high volumes of data.

Responsibilities

• Support accurate reconciliation of campaign and billing data.
• Assist with client audits and financial data reconciliation.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Process Improvement

Data Reconciliation

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Client Audit Executive – Temporary Contract

Talon is seeking a detail-oriented Client Audit Executive to support its finance function. This role ensures accurate reconciliation of campaign and billing data, maintaining strong relationships with suppliers and clients. Reporting to the Head of Media Compliance, the Audit Executive will assist with client audits, financial data reconciliation, and process documentation while recommending system improvements.

ABOUT US

At Talon, our purpose is to be the independent agency of choice providing a pioneering global platform for brands to connect with audiences in the outside world. We want to reimagine the industry to deliver greater value for our clients whilst inspiring people and caring for our planet. We’re passionate about OOH and are on a mission to drive the growth of this sector within the media industry – changing perceptions of it as a legacy medium to one that is highly effective, creative, sustainable, and measurable for our clients.

In our first 10 years, our desire to offer intelligent, creative, technology-led OOH solutions and a full-service OOH offering saw us grow into a team of over 300 people located in key cities across the globe. In that time, we have been awarded for our approach to our people, our clients and our industry and want to continue and expand upon these successes.

THE ROLE

*Please note that this is a Temporary Contract that will last until EOY 2025.*
This is a key role within the finance function as you will be part of the team that ensures we retain excellent relationships with our suppliers and clients, thereby helping the Group to continue its tremendous growth.

The successful candidate must be a team player with the ability to handle large volumes of data. You will be reconciling campaign data between our bespoke campaign planning system and the finance system.

In addition to this you will support the Head of Media Compliance on Client audits which will involve working with numerous people across the business.

A DAY IN THE LIFE

Support the Head of Media Compliance to ensure accurate end-to-end reconciliation of agency and media owners’ campaigns and billings to ensure smooth external client audits. This will involve liaising across the business along with using your skills to ensure accuracy of data.

Support with projects including documentation of all key processes that impact on client and media owner billings.

Leverage real time learnings to make recommendations to the Head of Media Compliance for process and system improvements, driving change to make our end-to-end process audit worthy.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Media background is preferred but not required
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to question variances and anomalies.
• High attention to detail
• High level of communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• An understanding of how to drive improvements in financial control and financial process, adept at challenging the status quo where necessary and recommending new approaches / efficiencies.
• Operational experience with significant exposure to reconciling high volumes of data.
• Proven experience of driving process improvement.
• Advertising experience preferred, or experience in a high-volume transactional business.
• Experience of financial systems; NetSuite experience preferable but not essential.

WHY US

“Talon ensures everyone feels welcome, has all of the tools readily available to be able to succeed. Talon takes seriously their responsibility as an employer, not only to employees but also to their customers and anyone they work with, including the planet. There is a constant striving from all levels to improve and ensure the way we work is better than yesterday.”

OUR VALUES AND HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

WE ARE BOLD

As industry provocateurs and pioneers, we respectfully challenge the status quo, take pride in our people, big ideas and partnerships.

• We challenge respectfully
• We lead the way

WE ARE HUMAN

We are a diverse collective of changemakers who value respect, fairness, and integrity and expect the same in return.

• We value collaboration and togetherness
• We are empathetic

WE ARE SMART

Our trailblazing spirit and learning-centric culture ensures our knowledge provides maximum value to each other and our clients.

• We grow and learn
• We are trusted
• We are mission possible

Talon is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ and develop a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and brands that we represent.