Media help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.
Kantar Media is a wholly owned but operationally independent part of the Kantar Group.
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As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.
Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.
Job Title: Group Financial Controller
Location: London, Grays Inn Road
Full time/Permanent
About the Project/Role
Join Kantar Media as a Group Financial Controller and play a key role in driving financial excellence across a global leader in Market Research. You’ll oversee group financial reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance while providing valuable insights to support strategic decision-making. Bring your leadership and technical expertise to help shape the future of Kantar Media in an exciting, fast-paced industry.
Job Role Requirements
- Financial Management & Reporting: Oversee the preparation of consolidated financial statements for the Group, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting across subsidiaries. Collaborate with internal teams and external auditors to ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
- Audit Coordination & Regulatory Compliance: Lead the coordination of audits, working closely with external auditors to ensure a smooth process and address queries promptly. Maintain a strong understanding of tax and UK reporting compliance, ensuring timely submissions to HMRC, Companies House, and other regulatory bodies.
- Technical Accounting & Support: Serve as the primary point of contact for technical accounting queries across the Group. Prepare and review technical accounting papers, ensuring compliance with the latest accounting standards and regulations. Oversee the maintenance and documentation of accounting policies and procedures, particularly related to costs and capital expenditure (capex), and ensure their consistent application across the Group. Additionally, drive the implementation and continuous improvement of financial control frameworks, promoting best practices to enhance the efficiency and quality of financial reporting and accounting processes.
- Cash Flow Management: Ensure the accurate management and reporting of company-level cash flow, supporting the optimization of financial resources for operational needs and strategic objectives.
- Expansion & Strategic Projects: Support the Group’s expansion efforts, including assisting with M&A activities and other related strategic projects. Provide financial insights and analysis to guide decision-making in these initiatives.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead and mentor the transactional finance team, including credit control, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture. Promote professional development and continuous improvement within the team.
Role Requirements
Educational & Professional Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field.
- Professional qualifications such as ACA or ACCA are required.
- Experience in an accountancy practice is desirable.
Experience:
- Minimum of 15 years in senior finance roles, 7 years in a leadership role
- Knowledge of Media, broadcast agency
Technical Competencies:
- Expertise in financial reporting standards such as IFRS and UK GAAP. US GAAP advantageous.
Accounting & Reporting Skills:
- Proven audit and accounts preparation experience, including the ability to prepare and report financial statements beyond audit processes.
- Strong technical accounting skills and expertise in statutory reporting.
Analytical & Attention to Detail:
- Strong analytical abilities to handle complex financial data and an eye for detail.
- Ability to analyse financial information effectively, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
Leadership & Communication:
- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills to manage teams and collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills to convey complex financial information clearly to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of building and developing teams.
Stakeholder & Pressure Management:
- Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment while maintaining attention to detail.
At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear, and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
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United Kingdom
Why join Kantar?
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And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.