Role: Finance Manager
Sector: Marketing Communications
Location: Farringdon, London
Contract: PART-TIME 4 days per week/Hybrid (in office 1-2 days per week)
Salary: £50,000-£55,000 pa FTE (i.e. £40k-44k pa for 4 day per week)
Reporting to: Board/Management Team
Ref: VFR 3238
FEBRUARY 2026 START
VisionFR is delighted to be working with a fab marketing communications agency to help find a sole-role Finance Manager to cover a 9-12 month maternity leave contract. This is an excellent opportunity for a Finance Manager to be responsible for the company’s financial operations from transactional data entry through to reconciliations and month-end reporting. This is role will be part-time, 4 days/week, and perfect for someone willing to jump in and immerse themselves in agency life and provide support to the board, management team and wider agency.
You’ll be a confident communicator, a numbers’ whizz and a friendly face in the office.
Role description
Key responsibilities:
* Running the day-to-day finances of the agency: purchase ledger, sales ledger, bank postings and bank recs, payment runs, be on hand for Paprika queries and general finance support to all teams.
* Business partnering with the client facing teams to support on project management, billing, revenue forecasting and revenue recognition.
* Paprika maintenance – Keeping the system clean and running efficiently.
* Monthly management accounts, prep and delivery to the board once a month. Inc journals, income reconciliations, overhead reconciliations and production of income and overhead reports.
* Ah-hoc reporting for management team / directors
* Manage company cashflow, produce weekly cashflow reports plus adhoc 3-4 month cashflow projection reports for the board.
* Monthly balance sheet reconciliations – Salaries, prepayments, accruals
* Payroll support – Liaise with our MD and outsourced payroll company to ensure payroll is completed accurately and to deadlines each month. Posting of salary journals.
* Provide staff training on Paprika when needed
* Oversee and approve client budgets
* Quarterly VAT returns, annual PSA return and yearly P11D’s
* Overheads, attend monthly ops meetings and h2 reforecast meetings, give input on budget spends and ensure any overspends are flagged well in advance.
* Produce year end reports and liaise with our outsourced accountants to produce year end stat accounts.
* Support with capacity planning across the agency
Required experience:
* 5+ years’ agency experience, be it social, PR, media, creative etc
* Good Paprika experience, must be familiar with all aspects of the programme including database maintenance
* Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
* Strong accounting background, must have produced management accounts for 3+ years
* Part-qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA
Candidate requirements
* Unflappable, organised, and professional at all times
* Happy to be involved with ad-hoc finance tasks outside of their day-to-day
* Approachable, door is always open attitude
* Flexible and enthusiastic to take on new challenges and feedback
* Friendly, needs to be a presence in the office and not hide in the corner
* Confident working alongside people across all job titles in the agency
* Clear communicator, able to explain financial performance to company directors
* Hands on approach, needs to work alongside the team with client budgets
* Been actively using Paprika a recent job role
* Confident in month-end and management accounts production procedures
VisionFR is committed to encouraging equality, diversity, inclusion and eliminating unlawful
discrimination within our workforce and whilst fulfilling our Client recruitment needs.
Due to the high level of applications being received if you do not hear from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion, usually due to other candidates having more relevant sector exposure, qualifications or required skills. We thank you for your interest.