Senior Finance Manager Costs & Reporting

Prs For Music Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in the music industry is seeking a Senior Finance Manager Costs & Reporting for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role involves financial planning, budgeting, and acting as a strategic partner to the Executive Leadership Team. The ideal candidate will possess strong accountancy qualifications and excellent stakeholder management skills, contributing to key financial decisions and team development.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

25 days holiday entitlement

Remote work for up to eight weeks

Retail discounts

Gym discounts

Qualifications

• Accountancy qualification required.
• Strong people management experience needed.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Support annual budget planning and forecasting.
• Act as a key financial partner to leadership.
• Lead quarterly revenue and cost reforecasting.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Commercial acumen

People management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Data analysis

Education

Accountancy qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

TM1

Job description

Overview

Music wouldn't exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We're here to represent them and make sure that they are paid for their work. After more than a century in the industry, we continue to innovate as a world-leading organisation.

The Role

This role is part of our Commercial Finance team, who are responsible for financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and cost management for both PRS and Joint Venture revenue. This roleacts as key strategic and financial business partner to the Executive Leadership Team, ensuring decisions regarding costs align with financial and strategic goals, and is responsible for delivery of the annual budget, quarterly forecasts and MPR. The role has 2 direct reports, and reports directly into the Director of Commercial Finance

This is a 12 month fixed-term contract (maternity cover).

Responsibilities

As our Senior Finance Manager Costs & Reporting, you will…

• Support the Director of Commercial Finance with the annual timeline planning for report, forecasting and budgeting. Support the Governance team for Board dates and submissions of financial documents.
• Act as a key and trusted financial and strategic business partner to the Executive Leadership team.
• Influence key decision makers and drives key strategic decisions across the business, using insight and analysis to make financial based recommendations, Challenge stakeholders where required.
• Proactively identify business and market insights to inform decision making around cost.
• Prepare & consolidate the final annual budget for Board approval.
• Lead the quarterly reforecast of revenue and costs process, including ensuring latest best estimate of the year end results reflects the latest quarterly forecast and material events or knowledge that have occurred or emerged since the date of finalisation.
• Coordinate the production of the MPR and Extended MPR suite of reports & other routine management information to Executive and Senior Team and Board.
• Motivate, engage and develop a team of two.

For a full list of duties, please email the recruitment team and request a copy of the job description.

About you

At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work. We believe that celebrating individuality promotes a culture of acceptance and openness. Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have:

• An accountancy qualification.
• Strategic thinking skills, able to see the big picture.
• Commercial and business acumen.
• Strong people management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills to facilitate better decision making.
• Excellent communication skills – including the ability to identify key messages and summarise complex information.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent data gathering, reporting and analysis skills.
• TM1 experience desirable.
• Experience in, and understanding of the management of performing rights and flow of rights is desirable.

What’s in it for you?

Here are just a few things that set PRS for Music apart from the crowd:

• We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference

• We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity

• We are consciously inclusive and have eight Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact

• We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward

• We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity and paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
• We know time to rest and recharge is important which is why we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days
• Employees can work from anywhere in the world for up to eight weeks of the year
• Plus a whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, gym discounts, season ticket or bicycle loan.

The Process

Our interview process for this role is simple:

• First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams.

• Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub.

We use competency-based questions within our interviews. This allows you to provide examples of situations where you have had to demonstrate the required skills relevant to the role you are applying for. To assist your preparation for interview, research the STAR method to aid bringing your examples to life.

Location

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing employees to work from home up to three days a week.

To ensure the health and safety of all our employees, if you wish to work from home for more than 2.5 days per week, we will conduct a quick and easy remote-working assessment.

If you sound like you could be the right person for the job, apply now.

At PRS we are committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We have taken a holistic approach to ensure that no one feels excluded regardless of age, class, sexuality, gender, race, religion, or ability. We value the needs of everyone in our organisation and strive to build an environment where our employee’s contributions are recognised in order that everyone may thrive.