Commercial Accountant - FTC May 25-Jan 26

Havas Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Commercial Accountant to join their dynamic Creative Finance team. This role is pivotal in overseeing revenue recognition and forecasting for a leading agency, ensuring strong profitability and providing financial guidance to client teams. You will be responsible for producing monthly profitability reports, managing client accounts, and fostering commercial awareness across the business. If you are a motivated self-starter with advanced Excel skills and a passion for finance, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial accounting with a strong focus on revenue recognition.
• Ability to communicate effectively and motivate teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee revenue figures for monthly reporting and quarterly forecasting.
• Drive agency profitability and manage client WIP accounts.

Skills

Commercial or Client Accountant experience

Agency experience

Excellent communication skills

Self-motivator

Advanced Excel skills

Tools

Pulse Production System

Job description

Hybrid

Agency : Havas London

Job Description Summary : Commercial Accountant FTC May 25 - Jan 26

Job Description :

The Role:

The Havas Creative Finance team is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Commercial Accountant to oversee all matters linked to revenue recognition and forecasting for one Creative agency. They will be the key contact in the agency for providing support and financial guidance to the Client teams. As a key part of the role is driving agency profitability, the Commercial Accountant will be working with the Finance Analyst to produce monthly profitability reports and working with the agency to ensure strong profitability on accounts.

Responsibilities:

1. Oversee the production of the revenue figures for monthly reporting and quarterly forecasting.
2. Ensure revenue recognition standards are applied correctly.
3. Review monthly recovery reports and organise monthly meetings with Business Directors.
4. Assistance with P&L reviews and reporting on KPI’s.
5. Management of missing POs.
6. Review fee proposals.
7. Be a real driver in raising commercial awareness across the business.
8. Ongoing training of client teams on commercial matters.
9. Oversee the management of all client WIP accounts, ensuring timely billing & reconciliation, minimising any WIP write off.
10. Ensure rate cards, rates and roles are up to date in the system.
11. Ensure the Pulse Production System is maintained and used appropriately.
12. Be aware of weekly debt reviews alongside the budget controller.
13. Ad-hoc tasks.

Skills:

• Experience in Commercial or Client Accountant.
• Previous agency experience desirable.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Self-motivator.
• Advanced Excel skills.

Contract Type : Temporary

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.