Finance Manager in City of Westminster

We're looking for a technically strong Finance Manager to join our Finance team in London. Reporting to our Financial Controller, this is a broad, global accounting role with a meaningful focus on revenue. Our clients operate at the frontiers of innovation - we advise technology companies driving change, global investors funding the future, the giants of sport and entertainment, and influential individuals on the communications and policy challenges that define their reputations.

Our work spans corporate and financial communications, policy and public affairs to engage regulators and policymakers, policy communications and leadership communications. We underpin the full breadth of our capabilities with research-driven insights and campaigns. We're also pioneering AI-enhanced advisory work for both our clients and internal innovation, using technology to unlock insights from data at unprecedented scale and speed.

You’ll own core accounting responsibilities while also taking charge of the revenue process for our growing global business. This is a hands-on role requiring technical rigour and the confidence to work independently across a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own global revenue recognition: ensure all client revenue is correctly booked, deferred, and accrued in line with accounting standards.
• Manage billing milestones, reconcile third-party cost recharges and ensure billing and sales orders in NetSuite are consistent with revenue schedules.
• Own global balance sheet reconciliations and review the Management Accountant's work - ensuring accuracy across expense allocations, GL coding, and journal postings within NetSuite.
• Review monthly budget versus actuals, flag material variances, and support ad hoc financial analysis as required.
• Act as primary point of contact for auditors throughout the annual audit process, managing all audit working papers across entities.
• Review the work of the wider finance team and take ownership of the month-end close schedule, ensuring deliverables are completed accurately and on time.
• Identify process improvements across accounting and revenue workflows; maintain finance policies and controls.
• Support ad hoc finance projects and be the London-based point of contact for the wider Finance team.

Qualifications:

• ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualified, with a strong technical accounting foundation - including balance sheet, VAT, and audit.
• Hands-on revenue recognition experience - either from an audit background or an industry role with a revenue focus.
• NetSuite experience or equivalent ERP.
• The ability to take ownership, work independently, and flag issues without prompting.
• Detail-oriented and comfortable operating across a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
• Confident communicator, able to present financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Commitment to contributing to a supportive and inclusive culture.
• Successful applicants will need to have the right to work in the UK; while it is possible for us to sponsor work permits, this may not be the case in all circumstances.
• Experience working with CRM systems, such as HubSpot.
• Experience working in a transatlantic or global business.
• Experience working in a professional services firm or SME.

Benefits & Culture:

We operate across London, Brussels, San Francisco, New York, and Washington D.C., advising technology companies, global investors, iconic brands and influential individuals on the communications and policy challenges that define their reputations. Our culture is built on five values: brilliance, restlessness, comradeship, inclusivity and integrity. We invest in each other through honest feedback, shared learning and genuine care that goes beyond the work itself.

• Competitive pay with transparent salary bands, twice-yearly bonuses, professional development opportunities guided by our career framework and progression pathways.
• Private healthcare, mental health support.
• 26 days holiday plus public holidays (outside of our annual Christmas break).
• Hybrid working model (three days in the office: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday).
• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion with measurable representation and inclusion initiatives, including pro bono work.