Freelance Commercial Finance support - Creative Agency

Looking for a super experienced commercial finance manager/ controller to support a thriving Ad agency as they go through a transition period.
  
You with straddle finance, commercial and support the operations team with resourcing and workflow efficiency.
  
This is a new role to carve out yourself, ideally converting to a permanent contract if the fit is right.

• Asap start
• £350-£400 day rate (inside IR35)
• 3 month contract- likely to roll and possible permanent opportunity
• 3 days in the central London office  

The role:
  
 Resource Forecasting

• Oversee comprehensive forecast reporting across all agency departments, providing visibility on financial performance and resource allocation delivering critical insights on revenue projections, resource gaps, and utilisation trends
• Implement standardised forecast reporting cadence, ensuring models are adaptable and data-driven
• Develop variance analysis protocols to address discrepancies between forecasted and actual performance
• Maintain headcount versus forecast analytics to drive strategic talent acquisition and resource planning
• Continuously refine workforce planning (FTE vs. freelance) to meet demand at optimal cost.
• Streamline and scale operational processes across agencies for efficiency and consistency with operations leader.

 Monetised Chargeability

• Drive monetised chargeability reporting—track revenue-linked utilisation and identify recovery gaps.
• Implement actionable insights to help improve billable efficiency at team, department, and agency levels.

 Freelancer Strategy & Cost Control

• Create freelancer reports that will inform and help manage the process (hiring, costing, deployment) with scalable workflows.
• Help track freelance spend and ensure it aligns with budgets and project profitability targets.

 Pricing & Financial Oversight

• Create pricing templates across the business and make relevant builds and revisions as instructed.
• Work with operations leader to review and maintain pricing frameworks to safeguard margins in scoping and staffing.
• Work with financial teams and operations leader to stress-test all templates and align resourcing with revenue targets.

Systems, Compliance & Scalability

• Scale and automate core operational processes (e.g., job and employee setup, forecasting, pricing templates, project tracking/scheduling) across the agency.

The person:

• Must have commercial finance experience
• Experience in a creatively focused agency
• Must have experience implementing new systems and software
• Ideally fully qualified

  
If this sounds like the ideal position for you, or if you are interested in exploring other Finance Jobs in London, please get in touch. As a specialist in Media finance recruitment I always have a number of Finance Manager, Management accountant, Client accountant Commercial Accountant, Financial controller, Finance Director and CFO jobs across Advertising, Production and Media Agencies in London and beyond. You can follow me on LinkedIn, email annie@theindustryclub.co.uk
  
Please note due to the large volume of applications we receive we cannot respond to everyone.
We are committed to ensuring and supporting representation from all backgrounds across the creative industry, irrespective of race, religion, belief, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability or socio-economic background.
  
With this in mind, we welcome applications from all areas of the community. Please do get in touch and let us know if there is any additional support or reasonable adjustments we can cater for, to ensure our process and roles fit your needs and creates a comfortable & enjoyable recruitment process.