Management and Production Accountant - ITN LIMITED
(2025-08 - 2026-03)
TV News Company
- Ownership of ITN Productions Limited - P&L and Balance sheet
- Finance business partner - Liaise with Production Manager and Production team to ensure accurate and timely financial control of production costs
- Ensure all contracts, Cost Managers, proof of delivery and milestone payments are accurately record
- Revenue Project – to ensure revenue is recognised accurately and cash is collected in a timely manner based on contractual milestones
- Produce various reports for senior management
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Produce WIP journals and report on accrued income and debtors
- Run regular meetings with Legal and Production Manager to share information relating to productions and update revenue tracker
Senior Management Accountant - ARGONON LIMITED
(2024-03 - 2025-05)
TV Media Company
- Finance business partner and responsible for day to day running of Like-a-Shot Ltd and Britespark Ltd
- Producing and reporting P&L, balance sheet and cashflow each month
- Ensure cost managers are accurately maintained by liaising with Production team and for accurate WIP reporting
- Assist AP and AR accountant when required
- Responsible for cost reporting, fixed assets, cashflow reporting, budgeting, forecasting and production accounting
- Maintain royalties reports and payaway reports – ensure royalties are accurate and claimed
- Produce payaway reports and submit to party involved
- Monthly reporting to Managing Director, CEO, Head of Finance, Head of Productions and Head of Development
Senior Management Accountant - FESTIVAL REPUBLIC LTD
(2023-01 - 2024-01)
Entertainment Company - 1 year FTC
- Responsible for Festival accounting (Wireless Festival) - Reporting P&L and balance sheets
- Revenue and cost reporting, fixed assets, cashflow reporting, budgeting and forecasting
- Maintaining Cost managers and attend regular meetings with senior management
- Projects relating to credit control and creation of new processes and reports
Production Accountant/Finance Manager - YOUNGEST MEDIA LTD
(2016-11 - 2022-12)
TV Production Company – Startup
- Prepare monthly management accounts for board and TV production cost reports
- Liaise with Production team and Production Manager to control programme costs against budget
- Responsible for company P&L and B/S including budgeting and forecasting
- Monthly payroll and P11d, VAT returns, cashflow and bank reconciliation and payments
- AP/AR supervision and credit control
- Projects: Implement Pension Auto-enrolment, Pleo card and produce budget templates
- Liaise with Auditors
- Supervision of staff
Contractor – Management Accountant / Financial Accountant - DUNNHUMBY LTD
(2015-10 - 2016-08)
Data Analytics Company owned by Tesco
- Prepare monthly management accounts for overseas entities and provide relevant and insightful commentary to the commercial finance team
- Prepare month-end balance sheet reconciliations ensuring that the Balance Sheet Reconciliation policy is adhered to and quality of reconciliations is measured and within target
- Reconcile and co-ordinate the settlement of month-end inter-company balances
- Identify and implement process and systems improvements to streamline activities and to enable increased focus on results analysis
- Projects: Inter-company and Fixed Asset project to implement Oracle Fusion system
- Supervision of one member of staff
Management Accountant - ALL3MEDIA LTD
(2014-02 - 2015-08)
TV Production Co. Owned by Discovery Communications
- Produce monthly trial balance and cashflow for All3Media Ltd (Operations) and various dormant companies
- Review bank reconciliations and forecast monthly cash movements
- Supervision of Assistant Accountant
- Production of annual budget and quarterly forecast and analysis
- Preparation of year end file and act as main point of contact with external auditors
- Preparation of draft statutory accounts and completion of annual corporation tax packs
- Production of monthly recharges to subsidiaries
- Monthly reconciliation and confirmation of intercompany accounts with 15 subsidiaries
- Maintenance of general ledger on Sage/PMI and act as Group Administrator for PMI
- Prepare and submit Form P11d to HMRC
Finance Manager – Content – Fixed asset management - BBC WORLDWIDE LTD
(2000-01 - 2014-02)
Now BBC Studios Ltd
- Management and improvement of complex Capital Fixed Asset Management System for correct accounting treatment of programme investment rights held for exploitation and Impairment review
- Main point of contact for Audit and Tax credit claim calculations and submission
- Produce and report capital spend: Quarterly forecasting, budgeting and cash-flow to Group
- Produce Management accounting for group consolidation, responsible for P&L and B/S
- Produce detailed variance analysis and KPI
- Responsible for amortisation charge (c£90m). Provide finance support to the business
- Working with the Content & Acquisitions business, royalties & IPA teams, sales team and Group Finance, manage and produce various reporting and analysis including Content acquisitions (In-house and Indie Advances) in excess of £150m
- SAP/BW Super user responsible for ensuring divisional technical requirements are captured, numerous projects and restructures, Business regionalisation project, data migration and data cleansing, tested and liaising with SAP/BW developers to compile reporting
