Head of Accounts

Halliday Marx; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Halliday Marx is representing a fantastic Media company in Central London, seeking a hands-on Head of Accounts to lead the Finance team and collaborate with the Finance Director. The role covers production accounting, financial reporting, payroll oversight, and coordinating year-end audits, with ongoing interaction with investors and royalty earners.

Hybrid working (3–4 days in) is provided, and the position sits in a tight-knit finance function.

Qualifications

• Hands-on finance experience with production accounting and reporting.
• Experience leading a finance team and coordinating with the Finance Director.
• Exposure to royalty pools or production-related reporting is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of cyclical production account reporting across UK productions.
• Review production costs and ensure correct reporting periods and cost centres.
• Post payroll and reserve journals; review reserve accounts for coverage.
• Calculate royalty pools and report to royalty earners, including self-billing where applicable.
• Prepare financial reporting for investors and directors as required.
• Manage cyclical reporting of Productions and royalty distributions.
• Calculate and distribute production profits quarterly.

Skills

Production accounting

Financial reporting

Team management

Royalty accounting

Job description

Halliday Marx have an exclusive Head of Accounts opportunity in a fantastic Media company

£80,000 - £85,000

Hybrid (3-4 days in)

Central London

Reporting to the Finance Director, this small, tightly knit company need a personality who will work as part of a team.

This is a varied and hands-on finance role, combining day-to-day management of the Finance team with responsibility for the financial reporting and accounting of productions.

Working closely with the Finance Director, the role will have visibility across a number of productions as well as regular interaction with investors, directors and royalty earners.

Production Accounting & Reporting

• Take ownership of the cyclical reporting of production accounts across all UK-based productions, ensuring financial information is accurate, complete and delivered on time.
• Review production costs to ensure expenditure is captured within the correct reporting periods and cost centres.
• Post payroll and reserve journals and review reserve accounts to ensure anticipated production costs are appropriately covered.
• Calculate royalty pools and manage the associated reporting to royalty earners, including self-billing where applicable.
• Prepare financial reporting for investors and directors where required.
• Manage the cyclical reporting of Productions, calculating royalty distributions.
• Calculate and distribute production profits on a quarterly basis.

Finance Operations & Team Management

• Oversee the day-to-day activities of the Finance team, supporting them in delivering accurate and timely processing.
• Manage key weekly finance activities, including payroll and payment runs.
• Review and authorise payments.
• Regularly review aged debtors, creditors and cash balances, identifying and following up on any issues.

Year End & Audit

• Prepare year-end schedules, reconciliations and supporting information for the annual audit.
• Act as a key point of contact throughout the audit process, responding to queries and coordinating information as required.