Finance Manager

WE ARE HIRING A FINANCE MANAGER

Are you ready to join the world's premier MarTech solution?

TLC has become THE global MarTech solution to reward consumer behaviour with experiences. Now operating from 14 worldwide hubs, the TLC COSMOS Platform connects millions of consumers with over 150,000 experience reward venues. We trust in decades of proprietary data to ensure we offer the right experience to every individual.

In 2024, TLC formed a strategic partnership with BD-Capital, a private equity firm. The collaboration provides both financial backing and strategic guidance, fueling TLC's mission to enhance its market leadership and expand its global footprint in data-driven loyalty solutions.

At TLC, we know that experiences make life more rewarding

We are looking for innovative, passionate and caring people to join our team and help us continue to build our success story

An opportunity has arisen for a commercially and technically minded Finance Manager to be responsible for our Italian and German markets. This is an exciting and challenging role reporting into the Group Finance Director in London they will play a key role in reporting and giving insights to key accounts and acting as a business partner.

Providing commercial support to the business, the Senior Finance Manager, will play a pivotal role in maximising margins and providing insight.

At TLC Marketing our Local Finance Managers ‘double hat’ with the HR Function and provide ‘People’ support. This involves basic HR functions with coaching, support and guidance from the Group People Director in London.

**What You'll Be Doing**:

- Analyse and interpret campaign performance to provide insights to various department heads
- Year end - Adhere to statutory and compliance requirements. Being the main representative for the year end audit, and relevant statutory filings
- Managing 2 finance colleagues and ensuring accounting records are maintained and kept up to date - support is provided by the finance assistants, but accruals and other key journal entries will be made by the Senior Finance Manager
- Monthly review of a Balance Sheet accounts, incl. Debtors, Creditors, Accruals, Prepayments etc
- Partnering with both the client and suppliers to enable smooth delivery and favourable business terms
- Advise on pricing for new campaigns, from review to final sign off stages
- Budgets - ownership, review and construction of annual budgets and quarterly revisions
- Cash Flows - management of local market cashflow and working capital
- Analysing and interpreting mangement accounts and presenting them to the local Board
- Payroll - calculate commission and allowances for payroll
- Playing a key role with the involvement with the company’s growth strategy plans and business reviews and adding value
- Managing the finance team and ensuring accounting records are maintained and kept up to date - support is provided by the finance assistants, but accruals and other key journal entries will be made by the Senior Finance Manager
- Being a mentor to the finance assistants
- HR / People - Local responsibility for key HR processes such as: onboarding/offboarding, HR System management, compensation & payroll, employee relations (including absence management, performance management and separation as needed).

**What We're Looking For**:

- Qualified accountant with 5-7 years experience
- Preferably has experience within public practice and/or working in an SME environment within marketing, advertising or PR
- Familiar with manipulating and interpreting data
- Excellent reporting skills and able to clearly present work that is easy to interpret and accurate
- Good verbal communication skills and can build effective working relationships with colleagues
- Adaptability - can deal with unplanned changes to tasks and workloads and successfully handle several tasks at any one time
- Make decisions in the commercial interests of the business. Remains aware of any new and emerging practices and looks to make improvements to processes and reporting to improve effectiveness
- Highly skilled in Excel
- Sound technical knowledge
- Good understanding of local labour laws in Germany (preferable) and Italy (essential) and instincts on people related matters

Here's what we've got to offer:

- Dynamic & collaborative team
- Creative work environment
- Career progression and upskilling opportunities
- Weekly Happy Hour
- TLC Wellness
- Global Clients & Team exposure
- TLC 'Fun Club' & Social Calendar (known to include pizza deliveries)
- TLC Gives Back - Charity partner/off site days.
- 'The Frankies' - Our very own awards/staff recognition event.

Being a people-led business, we hire upon values and believe that our people are what make the beloved TLC culture so unique.

At TLC we aim to create a ‘world within the world’ that is free from prejudice, bias and inequity.

A world where diversity is valued and celebrated, and where we work hard to ensure all our wonderful people a