Marketing Contract Compliance Specialist

A fantastic opportunity for a recent university graduate to train as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant and become a specialist in the advertising and media industry, working with some of the world’s best-known brands and their agencies.

You are a recent graduate and possess an enquiring yet logical mind, the ability to adapt to changing requirements, and a strong academic record (including minimum 2:1 University Degree and a grade 6 in Maths and English at GCSE). You hold honesty and integrity as core values, and possess excellent interpersonal and listening skills. In addition, you have a strong desire to learn and be part of the advertising and media industry and are confident in taking on responsibility.

As a graduate trainee this is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual who prefers to take the road less travelled. The successful candidate will secure a 3-year ICAEW training contract (ACA qualification) and become part of team that operates more like one in industry than in a Big 4 / traditional accountancy practice.

Reporting into an Assistant Audit Manager, our class-leading training programme will enable you to understand how agencies work from a commercial, contractual and financial perspective, equipping you to assess what is good practice and what is not, both commercially and ethically.

In addition to your professional exam training, you will be involved in contract compliance audits for clients and accounting activities in our own business. On completion of your training programme, you will progress to the role of Assistant Audit Manager. While we would prefer that you continue your career with us, you will also be in demand from agencies and the marketing finance teams of large advertisers.

The size and nature of our business can ensure that throughout your training contract you will be given every possible opportunity to succeed. You can expect challenging and exciting project work, in addition to the audits that you undertake, as you help to develop and shape our growing business. Your thoughts and ideas will listened to, and your business related responsibilities will increase as your training progresses.

When you work with Financial Progression, you are never a number! We value everyone’s individual personality and will encourage this to shine through within our close-knit team. We value each other and our individual strengths and areas of expertise.

• Strive to pass professional exams first time
• Liaise with clients and their agencies to gather data
• Perform data cleansing and transformation to enable audit analysis
• Analyse the data and present findings to the lead auditor
• Conduct detailed audit tests remotely or on the agency’s premises
• Document your work in accordance with our quality assurance standards
• Conduct book-keeping / accounting work for the firm’s own statutory accounts
• Support Audit Managers and Directors in client presentations and deliverables

• Competitive annual salary and benefits as part of a 3-year ICAEW ACA training contract.
• Provided with full IT and office environment infrastructure for your home workspace.
• We are a warm welcoming firm who believe in working hard, but also having a work/life balance.
• An opportunity to work closely with the Director of the business, your voice will be heard!

• British, EU, EEA or Swiss passport holder
• Already hold the right to work indefinitely in the UK (we are not in a position to provide sponsorship for visas)
• Resident in the Thames Valley
• Attend weekly meetings in Reading and Marlow for training purposes
• Attend bi-monthly team meetings, rotating between Reading and London
• Provide evidence of academic qualifications
• Start date August/September 2024
• Live within easy access to a train station