Group Financial Controller, Influencer
12 Month FTC, Maternity Cover
Salary not provided
Excel
Google Sheets
Xero
Senior and Expert level
London
Influencer marketing platform
Open for applications
Influencer marketing platform
501-1000 employees
B2BMarketingDigital MediaSocial Media
Open for applications
Salary not provided
Excel
Google Sheets
Xero
Senior and Expert level
London
501-1000 employees
B2BMarketingDigital MediaSocial Media
Company mission
For creator campaigns to be judged in the same way as other media activations.
Role
Who you are
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- 5+ years experience in a senior financial control/group reporting role
- Proven experience in multi-entity, multi-currency environments
- Strong technical grounding in IFRS/UK GAAP and audit leadership
- Experience in revenue recognition for project-based, agency, or digital businesses
- Commercial mindset with an understanding that finance exists to support better decisions
- Track record of improving processes, controls, and reporting quality
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets capability, strong GL systems experience (Xero familiarity a plus)
- Clear, confident communicator who can simplify complexity for non-finance leaders
- Comfortable operating at pace in a growing, evolving business
What the job involves
- 12 month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) maternity cover
- This role reports to the CFO
- The Group Financial Controller is the senior operational finance lead for the Group, responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and decision-useful financial reporting, robust controls, and strong governance across Influencer's multi-entity, multi-currency structure
- This is not a 'backward-looking' financial control role. You will sit at the centre of the business, embedding with regional and functional leaders, ensuring they clearly understand what they own financially, how performance is tracked, and how spend translates into outcomes
- Reporting into the CFO, you will own the day-to-day integrity of the numbers, freeing up senior leadership to focus on growth, strategy, and transformation - while ensuring the foundations (reporting, cash, compliance, controls) are rock solid and scalable
- Measures of success -
- Within the first 3-6 months, you will have:
- Delivered all monthly and annual reporting on time, with no quality issues
- Achieved zero revenue recognition or audit findings
- Reduced the month-end close cycle by at least 5 days
- Embedded a reliable 13-week cash flow used actively by leadership
- Improved forecast confidence through cleaner actuals and tighter controls
- Ensured all key controls are operating effectively and documented
- Built strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders
- Left the finance function stronger, calmer, and more scalable than you found it
- Roles & Responsibilities: Own and deliver the monthly group close, producing accurate and timely income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and variance analysis vs budget and forecast
- Consolidate results across multiple legal entities and currencies, ensuring correct intercompany eliminations, FX treatment and translation accuracy, and consistency between management and statutory views
- Maintain and evolve the group consolidation model (currently Excel-based), ensuring it remains robust, transparent, and scalable
- Own the month-end timetable, driving discipline, accountability, and continuous cycle-time reduction
- Produce high-quality commentary that explains performance in plain English - not just what happened but why it happened and what it means
- Line-manage the Commercial Finance Managers in EMEA and North America, setting clear expectations around outputs, timelines, and analytical standards, while ensuring regional insight rolls up into a single, coherent Group view of performance
- Act as functional lead for Commercial Finance across the Group, with direct responsibility for the quality, consistency, and credibility of management reporting delivered to senior leadership and the Board
- Own the end-to-end management reporting framework, ensuring one version of the truth across regions and functions, clear accountability for what leaders directly control, and alignment between actuals, forecast, and budget views
- Review and challenge regional management P&Ls before submission, ensuring accuracy and consistency of numbers, robust explanations of performance drivers, and clear identification of risks and opportunities
- Partner closely with the EMEA and North America Presidents, acting as a trusted financial sounding board, the final owner of their management numbers, and a bridge between regional performance and Group expectations
- Own short-term cash visibility and control, including producing weekly rolling 13-week cash flow and cash variance analysis vs forecast
- Identify and proactively manage working capital pinch points, timing mismatches between revenue, creators, and suppliers, and FX and intercompany cash movements
- Support the CFO with clear, reliable inputs for liquidity planning and decision-making
- Own all statutory and regulatory reporting obligations across jurisdictions, including annual statutory accounts, Companies House filings, and local compliance requirements
- Lead the annual audit process end-to-end, acting as the primary point of contact for auditors
- Ensure ongoing compliance with IFRS/UK GAAP, revenue recognition standards, VAT, corporation tax, withholding tax, and transfer pricing (with advisors)
- Maintain a permanently audit-ready environment, with clear documentation, reconciliations, and controls
- Accountable for the integrity of revenue recognition across the Group, ensuring consistent application of policy, alignment between CRM, operational systems, and the GL, and zero surprises at audit
- Work closely with Commercial Finance, Operations, and Product & Technology teams to ensure clean data flows, clear handoffs at campaign kick-off and completion, and robust treatment of complex deal structures
- Continuously improve financial processes to support faster closes, better insight, and reduced manual effort and risk
- Own and maintain core accounting policies, process documentation, and internal controls
- Play a key role in embedding new reporting structures, supporting system integrations and tooling adoption, and laying foundations that scale with growth
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Influencer is a technology platform that simplifies influencer marketing for both advertisers and creators. Connecting global brands with a network of vetted macro and micro creators, ensuring authenticity, quality, and creativity.
Once a connection is made, brands collaborate with creators to promote their products organically through creative content. Alongside this, the platform also provides brands with in-depth analytics on both the creators and campaign performance.
As an Official Global Marketing Partner with Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch and Snapchat, Influencer has delivered award-winning campaigns for global brands like Xbox, NatWest, Amazon, Coca-Cola, Google, ASOS, and Spotify
With the growing shift towards influencer marketing, the Influencer team is poised to leverage its deep industry knowledge, extensive social media expertise, and global reach to capitalize on this trend
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2019
$3.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $3.7m
Company benefits
- Private Healthcare: We've got you covered for a range of healthcare needs
- Enhance Parental Leave: We support our people with big life changes
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): We provide confidential counselling for our people as well as financial and legal support
- Hybrid Working Model: We understand that your best work doesn't need to be in our offices. That's why we offer our people the option to work from home for two days a week
- Enhanced Annual Leave/Paid Time Off: So you can enjoy more time on personal interests and with family
- Flex National Holidays: We have a globally diverse team, so you have the choice of swapping national holidays to align with those that matter to you
- End of Year Closure: Enjoy our gift to you with paid time off at the end of the year, in addition to your annual leave
- Flexible Working: Start and finish times that can be flexed to support you
- Work from Anywhere Policy: Enjoy the freedom to work from where you want
- Dog Friendly Office: Your four-legged friends are always welcome in our office
- Influencer Tenure Programme: We appreciate the loyalty of our people by offering rewards based on the time spent working with us
- Regular Team Socials, Summer & End of Year Parties: To celebrate our success and all the amazing work our people do to achieve these
- Recognition Platform: A space for our people to celebrate each other and award points that can be converted to discounted purchases and experiences
- Learning & Development Budget: Development training to support all of our people to feel confident in their growth at any stage of their career
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Ben Jeffries
(Co-Founder & CEO)Award winning Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Breeze Clothing.
Caspar Lee
(Co-Founder & CVO)Investor and Youtuber. Co-Founder of MVE and Creator Ventures.
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