Finance Apprentice

Job description

The Financial Reporting Team will have overall responsibility for reporting to WPP. The Financial Reporting Team will manage the overall P&L for the newly centralised agency. The newly formed Commercial Finance Team will focus on revenues whilst the Financial Reporting Team will report revenues and manage all agency costs including staff costs. The Financial Reporting team will work with the Commercial Finance team to deliver a commercially focused collaborative agency for Ogilvy UK.

This role reports into the Senior Management Accountant – Treasury

You will be responsible for the expenses process for the newly combined agency.

You will also work on the unallocated supplier invoices and the upload files for large suppliers.

The Senior Management Accountant Treasury is responsible for the hedging of foreign currency payments, cashflow forecasting, setting up new suppliers for the newly combined agency, managing the payments process and reporting on the NWC of the newly combined business. They will allocate further tasks to you in relation to these responsibilities where required.

The Package

Apprenticeship programme: Professional Accounting Apprenticeship, Level 4 (Delivered by BPP)Duration: 24 Months

The Agency

Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been producing iconic, culture-changing marketing campaigns since the day its founder David Ogilvy opened up shop in 1948.

Today, Ogilvy is an award-winning integrated creative network that makes brands matter for Fortune Global 500 companies as well as local businesses across 132 offices in 83 countries. The company creates experiences, design and communications that shape every aspect of a brand’s needs through six core capabilities: Brand Strategy, Advertising, Customer Engagement and Commerce, PR and Influence, Digital Transformation, and Partnerships.

In addition, Ogilvy has a number of specialist teams covering Social Media, Management Consulting, Islamic Marketing, Behavioural Insights and Data Expertise.