Group Management Accountant

Reporting to: Group Financial Controller
Location: Leeds (Hybrid)
Salary: £45,000 – £55,000
About Audience Collective
Audience Collective is a group of specialist agencies delivering growth for ambitious brands. We operate as an integrated model, combining specialist agency capability with strong commercial discipline.
Our finance function enables this through robust financial control, reliable reporting, scalable processes and commercially relevant insight that supports decision-making across the Group.
Role Purpose
The Group Management Accountant is responsible for the coordination, accuracy and quality of finance outputs across multiple agencies and entities.
The role ensures that core finance processes are delivered accurately, consistently and on time, with clear documentation, strong working-capital visibility and practical commercial insight.
The role acts as the key operational link between transactional finance activity, Finance Business Partners, agency stakeholders and the Group Management Accountant
The role is responsible for supporting:
Month-end close and management reporting
Balance sheet reconciliations and financial control evidence
Multi-entity reporting consistency and intercompany reconciliations
Agency revenue recognition, WIP, accrued income and deferred income review
Working capital, cash flow inputs and debtor/creditor visibility
Payroll coordination and payroll-to-GL reconciliation
Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis support
Finance systems, data quality and process improvement
Audit, year-end and compliance support
Authority, Decision-Making and Escalation
The Group Management Accountant is accountable for:
Accuracy, completeness and timeliness of agreed finance outputs
Coordinating month-end and reporting timetables
Reviewing transactional finance outputs for consistency and evidence
Preparing schedules and analysis for Group Management Accountant review
Maintaining process discipline, documentation and data quality
Identifying issues and supporting practical resolution
The role is expected to:
Challenge incomplete, inaccurate or unsupported finance outputs
Coordinate dependencies across transactional finance, FBPs and agency stakeholders
Maintain clear close checklists, evidence trails and issue logs
Highlight reporting, working-capital, payroll, WIP or billing risks early
Escalate where matters require technical judgement, control sign-off or senior decision-making
Escalation to the Group Financial Controller is required for:
Technical accounting judgements
Material balance sheet or reconciliation risks
Unresolved intercompany differences
Revenue recognition, WIP or billing issues with material impact
Significant payroll, VAT, cash flow or compliance risks
Audit or year-end matters requiring judgement
Process ownership issues that cannot be resolved through normal working rhythms
Key Responsibilities
Month-End Close and Reporting Coordination
Coordinate month-end close activity across agencies and entities.
Ensure journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations are complete, accurate and supported.
Review finance outputs for consistency, completeness and evidence before escalation.
Support delivery of reporting packs to agreed timelines.
Maintain month-end checklists, action logs and issue trackers.
Outcome: Accurate, reliable and timely month-end close.
Multi-Entity Coordination and Intercompany Support
Support reporting consistency across multiple agencies and entities.
Prepare and maintain intercompany reconciliations and balance schedules.
Assist with consolidation inputs for Group Financial Controller review.
Highlight unresolved differences, inconsistent treatment or data-quality issues.
Support consistent application of agreed reporting processes across entities.
Outcome: Clean multi-entity inputs and stronger consolidation support.
Financial Control and Balance Sheet Integrity
Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are completed monthly and supported by evidence.
Review aged, unreconciled or unusual balances and coordinate follow-up.
Maintain clear documentation and audit trails.
Support VAT, payroll and compliance-related finance processes.
Escalate control issues or judgement-based matters promptly.
Outcome: Stronger balance sheet discipline and reduced control risk.
Agency Revenue Recognition, WIP and Billing Accuracy
Support the monthly review of revenue across retainers, projects, media/pass-through activity and milestone-based work.
Monitor WIP, accrued income, deferred income and billing cut-off.
Work with FBPs and agency stakeholders to identify billing gaps, underbilling, over-servicing or margin leakage.
Support reconciliation between project, billing and finance data.
Escalate material revenue recognition or judgement-based matters to the Group Financial Controller.
Outcome: Improved revenue accuracy, stronger billing discipline and clearer margin visibility.
Working Capital and Cash Flow Support
Monitor aged debt, creditor positions and working-capital movements.
Support cash flow reporting through accurate debtor, creditor, payroll, VAT and committed-cost inputs.
Work with FBPs and transactional finance colleagues to support debtor follow-up and cash collection visibility.
Highlight cash conversion risks, billing delays and working-capital trends.
Outcome: Better cash visibility and improved working-capital discipline.
Payroll Coordination and Reconciliation
Coordinate monthly payroll inputs and validation activity.
Review payroll data for completeness and accuracy, including starters, leavers, salary changes, bonus, commission and absence inputs.
Liaise with HR, payroll providers and finance stakeholders to resolve queries.
Reconcile payroll outputs to the finance system and management reporting.
Maintain payroll documentation and control evidence.
Escalate statutory, pension, benefit or judgement-based payroll matters as required.
Outcome: Accurate, controlled and well-documented payroll outputs.
Budgeting, Forecasting and Variance Analysis Support
Support the annual budget and rolling reforecast processes.
Coordinate finance inputs and ensure submissions a

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