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Interim Finance Director | High-Growth Live Entertainment Company | Temp-to-Perm

Harmonic are delighted to be working with one of the UK’s most renowned live entertainment businesses. The company operate predominantly in the Entertainment event space and have begun to expand their operational internationally, putting on shows in Europe and Asia. As the Interim Finance Director, your role will be integral to the short-term financial wellbeing of the organisation as well as road-mapping and commercial support for the expansion, should the contract go temp-to-perm.

The business currently has a turnover of in excess of £15 million, which has bounced back incredibly quickly since the Covid pandemic and has recently been subject to a £4million fundraise. They organise around 10 events and festivals, predominantly in the UK, but have begun to already have an international foothold. The company is well-known for having an inclusive working environment, with a sociable and fun-loving team. Our client requires an experienced Finance Director who can hit the ground running and begin this role by the end of January.

The Role

Starting initially with a 3-month contract, there is a high chance this will develop into a permanent position as the business looks to expand its sphere of influence in the live entertainment market across the globe. Reporting directly into the Business Directors, this role also comes with management responsibilities, leading the other two members of their finance department.

Your responsibilities will include overarching responsibility of the finance function, ensuring that a high level of financial control is established and maintained. As well as the general accounting duties, such as reviewing month-end and leading the annual audit, this position will be highly commercial acting as a business partner to various departmental leads as well as running the budgeting and forecasting process. The Directors are looking for a Finance Director who is commercially astute enough to play a significant role in setting the commercial and financial strategy of the business alongside the Directors.

Duties

• Overall responsibility of the Finance function
• Working closely with the Directors to produce the commercial and financial strategy
• Responsibility for the production of budget and forecast
• Preparation of annual accounts
• Acting as a finance business partners to various departments including commercial, marketing, and senior leadership teams
• Analysing profitability of various projects
• Supervising and reviewing Management Accounts
• Manage and mentor the more junior members of the finance team

Required Experience

• ACCA/CIMA/ACA Qualified
• Experience in the Events/Festivals/Entertainment/Hospitality/Music sector
• Experience working in consumer and supplier facing businesses.
• High level of written and verbal communication skills
• Strong personal interest in live music and events!

Day Rate: £550-£650/day (Inside IR35)

Start Date: 30th January

Location: London

If this is something of interest, please get in touch at [email protected] or please apply online.

If this role is of interest, please apply online. Due to the high volume of applications, we are receiving, if you have not heard back from us, please assume your application was unfortunately unsuccessful on this occasion.

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Harmonic Finance™ | Certified B Corp

Creative Director / Senior Art Director (Part time 3 days a week)

SEEN Group Values:

• Creativity

• Inclusivity

• Positivity

• Excellence

The Opportunity

This role is at the heart of the SEEN Works division working closely with our Divisional Director, Associate Beauty Director and design team to lead creative direction across our brands. You will partner with our Clients and team to provide the best creative and strategic solutions across our roster of world class Beauty Brands to originate ideas so inspiring they elevate perceptions of Beauty.

Your role will be fully integrated working across all internal teams to lead the development and delivery of creative content and experiences across all channels.

This is an opportunity to work across some of the world’s strongest Beauty brands so you will need to be an ambitious and commercially minded Creative Director.

The work you do will place us ahead of our competition and encourage our internal teams and clients to boldly pursue innovative ideas that translate into outstanding creative and experiences consumers will remember.

The role

• You will be working to set the creative vision and aesthetic agenda for our clients – both at a brand and campaign level.
• You will work collaboratively to translate strategy and insight into stand out creative concepts which transcend multiple channels.
• You will work across SEEN Group to deliver excellent creative solutions to meet client needs, in partnership with strategy, client services, production and other internal teams
• You will work with our clients and wider SEEN Group teams to understand the real business problems to solve with creative and cut through solutions.
• You will present and articulate visions, strategies and technologies to clients from marketing executives to Board level
• You will establish your own relationships with key clients. Actively work to unlock briefs from new and existing clients
• You will be responsible for developing creative solutions on communication, planning and pitches across brands and teams
• You are always thinking ahead, aligning your creative vision to the structure, vision and future of the business
• You will be responsible for design direction and lead vision / innovation workshop activities
• You will be responsible for Inspiring and leading the creative vision across Direct Reports and all SEEN Group team.
• You will be responsible for contributing to creative direction on new business pitches. Driving the process from start to finish, ensuring that we deliver first class creative work.
• Being a leader and advocate of the group creative process – ensuring the process is used efficiently and improved where there are challenges.
• To help grow the agency’s reputation and strive to develop work that wins awards and is stand out in Beauty.
• Leading multiple projects from conception to completion in accordance with deadlines
• Evaluating and, if necessary, altering, the content of projects before completion

To succeed in this role you will demonstrate the following:

• Experience from within an integrated creative agency, ideally involved with Beauty accounts
• Experienced as a media-agnostic creative
• An innovative thinker who is always looking to challenge the work produced to ensure it is of exceptional quality
• Gravitas, a sharp thinker who is big picture savvy
• Instinctive problem solver with a love of complex problems and elegant solutions
• Confident, articulate and persuasive; someone who enjoys sharing and developing ideas.
• A confident and persuasive visual thinker, a skilled crafter and deliverer of presentations
• Highly collaborative and adaptive to working with all disciplines within the agency
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to push back on clients where appropriate

To learn more about SEEN Group visit seengroup.com* or follow us on Instagram *@seen_group

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday per year, plus additional days off at Christmas and New Year
• Monthly gym membership
• Hybrid Working – 2 office days a week
• 3 Wellness Days
• Mental health support – including chat and video therapy
• Pension contribution
• Private healthcare
• Enhanced family leave package

SEEN Group

The Dominus Group is looking for a Finance Manager to join our pre-opening team at Hampton by Hilton London City.

Dominus Group, the London-based property developer and investment group, is looking for a pre-opening Finance Manager to join their new site, Hampton by Hilton London City, in the historic Aldgate.

Responding to strong demand for the Hampton by Hilton brand in London, the hotel is planned to open in May 2023 through a partnership with Dominvs Group and under the management of Madison Cairn. The hotel is a stone’s throw from Old Spitalfields Market, sandwiched between Shoreditch and the City, London’s historic business district. Plans will revitalise the 1960s building with features that complement the surrounding historic architecture.

The property is opening with 129 guestrooms in May 2023, building to 278 guestrooms in 2024.

What we offer

1.     Competitive salary with bonus scheme

2.     Friendly, people focused team 

3.     Development opportunity across the Dominus hotels portfolio, including several Marriott and Hilton brands 

4.     Pension 

5.     Staff rate across all Hilton brands and across the Dominus hotel portfolio 

6.     Staff events and recognition schemes 

About the role

The Finance Manager is an integral part of the team responsible for maintaining an efficient and accurate finance function within the company.

This is a key role, linking the hotel and Head Office finance and control requirements. The successful candidate will be managing risks as well as producing a suite of reports to enable effective and profitable running of the finance function within the hotel.

Key responsibilities will include: 

·       Implement and maintain acceptable accounting practices as required by company policy and procedures.

·       Develop and implement financial control procedures and systems to minimise risk; maintain records for internal and external audits; ensure compliance with government regulations and contractual agreements

·       Maintain group policies and procedures, ensuring tight financial management of the business.

·       Manage hotel contracts (example: vendor leases and/or service contracts).

·       Recommend actions to maximise financial return.

·       Ensure that all daily / weekly and monthly finance deadlines, tasks and processes have been complied with.

·       Update and keep track of the hotel P&L forecasts.

·       Prepare complete management accounts pack for hotel including balance sheet reconciliations. Budget reviews to identify cost saving and productivity opportunities for department heads

·       Process and Review payroll as well as ensuring accuracy of reporting and manage its cost base.

·       Manage the production of weekly F&B flash reports

About you

·       Strong financial and commercial acumen

·       Strong communication skills through a variety of means

·       Excellent people management and leadership skills

·       High attention to detail and accuracy

·       Flexible and results driven

·       Preferred System knowledge: Fourth, OnQ, Sage200

This is an ideal role for someone who would like to take their first head of departmental role and would enjoy a rewarding challenge of new hotel opening. 

If you would like to join a people focused team in a unique, new opening hotel, please do get in touch! We look forward to hearing from you. 

Hampton by Hilton London City

OPEN CASTING CALL FOR A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION PROJECT

We are looking for:

• a boy,
• aged 5-7yrs from Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea for a major new BBC TV drama series.

Please meet us at 2 pm-6 pm – Thursday 16th March at Plaza Cinema in Port Talbot.

American Express x VICE x Refinery29

We are currently working on the latest American Express online campaign in partnership with VICE and Refinery29, and we are looking for the following:

VICE x American Express

• Male or male-presenting creatives
• 26-35 years old
• London-based
• Working in the creative industries (we are open to all individuals with a thriving creative job but would particularly love to hear from musicians and DJs)
• Must have a valid passport
• Must be available to shoot in a European city between 13th – 18th April 2023
• MUST BE AN AMEX PLATINUM CARDHOLDER

The chosen individual will take a last-minute trip to a European city. Throughout the day, they’ll enjoy being chauffeured, exclusive Airport Lounges, last-minute bookings at all-the-noise restaurants, and a stay in a 5-star hotel without so much as breaking a sweat.

Refinery29 x American Express

• Female / female-presenting creatives
• In their 30s
• Based in the UK but NOT in London
• Working in the creative industries – art, fashion, or food
• Must be available to shoot in London, one day between 13th – 18th April 2023
• MUST BE AMEX PLATINUM CARDHOLDER

The chosen individual will be traveling to London for a proper city break. After an AMEX Point shopping spree, they’ll check into their room – oh hello, Hotel Upgrade – then use the Concierge Service to nab themselves a table at one of the city’s hottest new restaurants.

Both experiences will be covered by production in total.

In addition, contributors will be paid a flat fee of £9,000 (incl. agency fee) for their time on the day + the campaign usage (12 Months on VMG and Amex Owned and operated websites and social media channels.)

We are looking for Depop users with Mermaidcore style for a cool new campaign.

All ethnicities, abilities, and genders are welcome!  

We’re looking for fashion stylists, assistant stylists, dressers and designers to feature in a commercial for a soft drinks brand.

All ages, ethnicities and genders.

Paid roles.

STARK CASTING

CASTING FOR AN ONLINE DATING SHOW

Looking for males and females

• All ethnicities
• Aged 19-25

Filming in London
29th of March

CASTING WOMEN FOR HAIR CARE COMMERCIAL

WE ARE LOOKING FOR WOMEN AGED 27 OR OVER FOR A TV COMMERCIAL

FILMING 4TH OF APRIL IN LONDON
PAID OPPORTUNITY

DES HAMILTON CASTING

WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR FILIPINO WOMEN, AGED 40-60 AND BASED IN THE UK, FOR A PAID ROLE IN AN UPCOMING TV SERIES.

CHARACTED PORTRAYED AS:
FEMALE, AGED 40-60
FILIPINO BASED IN THE UK
ENGLISH-SPEAKING

NO PROFESSIONAL ACTING EXPERIENCE NEEDED