Company description

Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) is a world-famous creative agency that makes jaw-dropping, thumb-stopping, eye-opening work for brands across the globe. Founded in London in 1982, we now have offices in New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Mumbai, Singapore, and Shanghai. Our first ad for Levi’s showed a black sheep travelling in the opposite direction to a flock of white ones. That’s where we got our logo and our guiding philosophy: when the world zigs, zag. Why? Because it’s easy to zig, to go with the grain. It feels safe. It feels like the sensible thing to do. But the greater risk is failing to stand out. We believe in the power of difference to make a difference.

Our goal is a simple one: make the best work in the world. That’s where you come in. We need rebels, dreamers, thinkers, mathematicians, makers, artists, visionaries, doers, observers, the different and the unreasonable. We need Black Sheep. People who want to make the hearts flutter and minds do flips, who can change businesses and culture. People who want to make a difference, come here for something different.

https://www.bartleboglehegarty.com

Overview

Join us as a Management Accountant for a 15-month maternity cover, taking the lead on our personnel budget and Dublin financial operations. You’ll play a pivotal role in payroll, forecasting, and reporting, working closely with HR and senior finance leaders to keep our people plans and financial performance on track.

Responsibilities

Personnel responsibilities

• Responsible for posting, forecasting, analysing and reporting for a £35m personnel budget, our single biggest cost line
• Posting monthly payroll journal and accruals and prepayment of all personnel budget costs including freelance staff, insurances, recruitment, holiday pay etc
• Checking payroll reports with support from FC/FD
• Maintaining the annual forecast for 400 staff. Liaising with HR, FD/CFO to collate input
• Support the annual budget process
• Maintenance of track of pay rises against budget and support the annual pay rise process.
• Responsible for input of analysis of personnel movements etc into HFM reporting system to Publicis Groupe
• Support of Internal and External audits with payroll related queries

Dublin responsibilities

• Responsible for timely, complete and accurate reporting of actual results, including posting monthly accruals/prepayments and reviewing the general ledger
• Responsible for internal reporting of actual results to BBH management including P&L, Balance Sheet
• Responsible for monthly review of Balance Sheet with the Financial Controller and addressing queries with ReSources management accountants.
• Support the FC in management of External and Internal Audits

Qualifications

Essential

• Part qualified accountant
• Nice, outgoing personality, someone with energy
• Able to liaise with departmental managers and resource managers
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Good Excel skills pivot tables, lookups etc. Someone who can demonstrate they have looked after a large data set in excel
• Self Starter, someone to take on and develop the role, manage their time to get the right inputs and outputs within deadlines
• Ability to juggle many inputs, emails, discussions etc and feed into a meaningful forecast
• Someone who challenges the way things are done and looks for better solutions
• Analysis skills - able to provide insight into variances and business plans

Desirable

• Experience of Advertising not essential but experience of media or creative business is desirable
• Experience of SAP / Other large ERP