Why we’re hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

As we progress on this journey, finance plays a critical partnership role to ensure we deliver our transformation outcomes both operationally and financially. You will the lead the accounting finance team ensuring that the finance nuts and bolts are in place ensuring that as the organisation grows, the finance team can scale to support it.

Reporting into the WPP IT Controller, the role holder will be responsible for maintaining our financial records ensuring we’re operating in a SOX compliant manner and partnering with the finance business partners acting as an advisor to the business needs.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the accounting team with oversight of the day-to-day finance operations of the business.
• Coordinate and lead the month end process with a focus on continuous improvements.
• Ensure the numbers are reported accurately and on time into the group consolidation system.
• Lead and own the relationship with our shared service partners, assessing activities that could be migrated across.
• Line management responsibility for the accounting team, incorporating training, development and performance review process.
• Document and drive effective internal controls working closely with the internal control team.
• Establish and maintain financial policies and procedures for the company ensuring that these are communicated and known across the business.
• Own the balance sheets across all our markets ensure reconciliations are in place and completed in a timely manner, driving standardisation across all processes.
• Overseeing the audit process and liaising with external personnel where required.

What you’ll need:

• Ability to build excellent business relationships, based on trust and mutual respect.
• Ability to challenge to clarify understanding and solve problems.
• Autonomous and organised.
• Customer focus driven with a commitment to ‘do the right thing’.
• Ability to influence, motivate and engage at all levels to deliver results.
• Expert communicator with a track record of operating, partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Proven experience in financial management.
• Ability to manage high levels of pressure and execute critical decision making as well as being self-motivating whilst operating in an ambiguous environment.

Who you are:

You’re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You’re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You’re extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we’ll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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