Commercial Accountant

6 Month Fixed Term Contract 

About Ogilvy

Ogilvy UK has been creating iconic ideas that deliver impact at scale for clients ever since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948. Specializing in brand advertising, customer experience marketing, PR, influence, and consulting, all fuelled by Behavioural Science, Ogilvy UK crafts world-class, award-winning creative campaigns that solve business challenges for global brands including Molson Coors (owner of Madrí beer), Valeo Foods UK (owner of Kettle Chips and Rowse Honey), Argos, Mondelēz International, Unilever, TK Maxx, and Pernod Ricard.

In 2023, Ogilvy UK celebrated its 75th anniversary as the most awarded agency in Europe. Ogilvy is home to the largest influencer marketing practice globally and hosts Nudgestock, the world’s biggest festival of behavioural science and creativity, now in its 12th year.

At Ogilvy, creativity and strategy are never separate. Our goal is to foster an environment where talent thrives and where innovative ideas drive measurable results.

About The Role 

Join our dynamic Commercial Finance team and play a pivotal role in driving growth across our exciting portfolio of businesses. As a Commercial Accountant, you'll be more than just a numbers person; you'll be a strategic partner, working closely with client leads to challenge assumptions, identify opportunities, and ensure best commercial practice is at the heart of everything we do.

This is a 6-month Fixed term Contract and a fantastic opportunity to develop your commercial acumen, work with a diverse range of clients, and make a real impact on the success of our UK unit. You'll be part of a supportive and collaborative team that values innovation and strives for excellence.

What You'll Do

• Partner with Client Leads: Build strong relationships and work collaboratively to understand their business, identify revenue growth opportunities, and drive margin improvement.
• Drive Revenue Reporting & Forecasting: Take ownership of revenue reporting and forecasting, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Champion Margin Improvement: Develop and implement margin improvement plans, monitoring progress and advising on best practices.
• Manage Jobs & NWC: Work closely with the Commercial WIP Managers to ensure all jobs are opened, maintained and closed efficiently and effectively.
• Ensure Compliance: Ensure compliance with ICFR regulations in relevant areas, particularly in relation to revenue recognition.
• Be a Commercial Champion: Promote best commercial practice across the agency, assisting and training others to do the same.
• Client Reporting: Prepare client reconciliations which are accurate and timely and assist in any client audits.
• Client Profitability: Track jobs and proactively challenge your client teams on overruns.

What You'll Need 

• Part-qualified or studying towards a CIMA or ACCA qualification.
• A strong commercial focus and a passion for driving change.
• Excellent attention to detail combined with the ability to see the bigger picture.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Strong Excel skills are essential.
• Experience of working in the Media industry is preferable but not mandatory.
  
  
  

Benefits 

• 25 days annual leave + 1 Volunteer Day 
• Bupa Healthcare 
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave 
• We have a Flexible Working Model with core working hours: 10am – 4pm 
• A 1.5:1 Matching Pension Structure 
• Wellbeing and Health: Up to £25.00 per month towards physical or online exercise class membership,
• Unmind membership,
• Access to the fantastic EAP 'LifeWorks' tool
• Wellbeing incentives and activities throughout the year 
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Scheme 
• Life Assurance

Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.

We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.

If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.