Finance Analyst

Flipside Group is a creative digital agency specialising in high-impact design & technology projects. We offer cutting edge new technology and perch in the sweet spot where agency meets consultancy.

We do a wide range of great stuff! Creating traditional adverts for our Pharma powerhouse GSK; behind home known brands such as Sensodyne & Panadol to developing the delivery App for Papa John’s Pizza or the tech behind the Coca-Cola Freestyle Machine all the way to building a Manchester City FC Metaverse to name a few!

The role is for our newly established Flipside North America business, reporting to both our US Finance team and UK Finance team on ground.  

The Role:

This role encompasses two parts; the first is Accounts Receivable

Working under direction of the Finance Leads and Strategists, you will be ensuring that you are raising all invoices in a timely manner at their direction, or – at your initiative, sending out correctly and/or uploading to various portals.

The goal will be set to have all billings up to date at month end before close to optimize working capital as set as a goal for us.

You will also be the main contact for our parent company in terms of credit collection when required to remedy.

During this process, you will have exposure to clients as you will be the one liaising directly with them – as well as being a Business Partner to the strategists touching base when something might be able to go out.

In the interest of closing the accounts (and the two week lead up to) you will be helping the Finance team calculate, post & adjust timesheets, create jobs and run through checks to ensure that the forecasts are correctly loaded into SAP to hit the month end number.

This is fundamentally the most important part of the role.

You might also be required to fill out client reconciliation templates for our parent company or US Finance Teams along with any other ad-hoc reporting along the way.

In the monthly/quarterly periods, you might have to help with various SOX activities which require paperwork per job submitted to the US Revenue Controllers within deadline.

The other part is being the cost catcher of the business; Accounts Payable.

You will create purchase orders for our business, distribute all invoices for authorisation and ‘check’ these in the system once approved for payment. This is done via an Internal system, then transferred into SAP.

The IPG payments team take care of the actual payment process however once you have got them to the posted point.

In addition to this, you will

• Oversee the Corporate AMEX card start to end; purchasing items when requested, reconciling end of month statements, creating a purchase order for and sending in for payment on time.
• Issue contracts to new Suppliers and ensure that they sign appropriate NDAs before distributing a purchase order to them.
• Be able to catch if AWS, or Azure costs are billable back to clients, updating trackers and any other media spend that comes through updating necessary trackers and ensuring these do not go over budget by looking at the jobs.
• You will also bill these out in a timely manner to our clients, so costs and revenue are hitting in the same period.

As this role is new, we might discover that we have gaps in places and various needs in others. If the bandwidth allows, your role will expand to capture these to support the rest of the team. 

Flipside is a fast paced environment, we need someone who is on the ball, seriously organised, methodical and can juggle lots of plates at one time to keep up with this role. Above all, we’d like someone who is fun, likes to be around people, approachable & helpful to all. We all work hard, but we’re a great family feel agency at the end of the day.

Diversity & inclusion:

Flipside is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability status.