Finance Manager

Bauer Media Outdoor UK; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working (3 days in office, 2 at home)

33 paid holidays including bank holidays

Pension scheme matched up to 8%

Life insurance and income protection

Cycle to work scheme

Travel/Season ticket loans

Job summary

A leading media company based in Woking is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee their finance team. This pivotal role involves managing a talented team, ensuring smooth accounting processes, and providing insightful financial analysis. The ideal candidate will have relevant qualifications, strong technical accounting knowledge, and experience in team management. You'll enjoy flexible working arrangements, 33 days of paid holidays, and a competitive benefits package, making it an excellent opportunity for skilled finance professionals.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with industry experience preferred.
• Experience managing a team and developing their performance.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, familiar with UK and DE GAAP.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of four, supporting their development and day‑to‑day work.
• Ensure management accounting processes run smoothly and deadlines are met.
• Review journals and manage balance sheet reconciliations.

Skills

Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA or ACCA)

Experience managing and coaching a team

Strong technical accounting knowledge

Confident communicator

Proficient in ERP and Excel

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA or ACCA)

Tools

Strong Excel skills

ERP systems experience

Job description

Bauer Media Outdoor is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners and infrastructure companies, with more than 33,000 advertising sites in our portfolio. Our talented team of over 600+ people work in 14 locations across the country, creating and delivering some of the most memorable advertising campaigns in the UK.

At Bauer Media Outdoor our mission is To Create the Future of Media, transforming our estate to the benefit of all our stakeholders, through data-driven innovations and infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide both A Platform for Brands & A Platform for Good, delivering on advertisers’ media objectives whilst having a positive impact on the world around us

About the role

We're looking for a Finance Manager to join our finance team, reporting to the Deputy Financial Controller. This is a pivotal role at the heart of our financial operations — one where your technical expertise will shape the quality of our management accounting, and your people leadership will help a talented team thrive.

This role would suit a qualified accountant who's equally comfortable reviewing complex journals and coaching a team as they are partnering with commercial stakeholders and driving process improvement.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading a team of four (two Senior Management Accountants and two Management Accountants) — supporting their development, performance, and day‑to‑day work
• Owning the period end timetable, ensuring management accounting processes run smoothly and deadlines are met
• Reviewing and challenging journals across DE GAAP and FRS102, including fixed/variable rent, revenue, operating costs, accruals, prepayments, and provisions
• Partnering with the Commercial Finance and FP&A teams to review period end results, investigate queries, and manage final adjustments
• Ensuring balance sheet reconciliations are completed, understood, and reviewed each period, with queries resolved on a monthly basis
• Maintaining a risk and opportunities log and keeping the Financial Controller and Head of Financial Reporting informed of developments
• Managing the revenue share process, including audits and council submissions
• Liaising with internal and external auditors across various audit cycles
• Contributing to the design and implementation of new systems and processes, and ensuring all procedures are documented and centrally stored

Knowledge and skills

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA or ACCA); industry experience preferred
• Experience managing, coaching, and developing a team
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, including UK and DE GAAP (FRS102)
• A controls‑focused mindset with the ability to identify and implement process improvements
• Confident communicator — able to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Commercially curious, proactive, and comfortable working to tight deadlines in a fast‑paced environment
• Proven ability to use technology to redesign and improve processes
• Solid ERP and systems experience, with strong Excel skills

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working (3 days in our offices and 2 days at home)
• 33 paid holidays inc bank holidays
• Company Pension Scheme matched up to 8%
• Life Insurance and group income protection scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Travel/Season ticket loans and a whole host of discounts across 100s of retailers

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact [e-mail]

At Bauer Media Outdoor, we are committed to treating everyone with fairness and respect, regardless of their race, gender, age, ethnicity, background, sexual orientation, disability, or any other differences. We work hard to foster an inclusive environment, a place you can be yourself. We support reasonable adjustment requests from candidates and employees. If you're interested in joining us to shape the future of out‑of‑home media, we'd love to hear from you.