Finance Intern

Job Description

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, O2, Samsung, and adidas.

Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things and be recognised as the best.

WHAT MATTERS THE MOST

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves at work. Authenticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realised when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice! Visit us at tmsw.com.

WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE

The Client Finance Intern will sit within our International Agency Finance team.

Here at tms, we are committed to building and sustaining an enviable finance function. We believe that everyone here has a part to play in building our business into a successful agency; having a committed and talented finance team is vitally important. As the Finance Intern, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the underlying finance data is correct and processed correctly within our accounting system. This role will appeal to someone who wants a varied role in a busy finance team and is eager to learn and develop their career.

This position reports to the Finance Analyst and is based in the London office in Southwark. You will have responsibility for managing relevant key internal relationships within the business and with our clients.

Finally, we guarantee that you will leave changed because we help our people achieve their goals.

So come here to experience. To experiment. To make mistakes. To challenge your own limits.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION

We are looking for someone with a basic understanding of accounting and finance who wants to begin their career in this area and get some hands-on experience. You will be personable, friendly and keen to develop your networking skills. A positive, can-do attitude goes a long way here, and we are looking for someone with a keen eye for detail and great organisational skills.

DIGGING DEEPER ON THE DETAILS

• Learning to use our NetSuite reporting system
• Assisting the team in raising invoices and liaising with clients on any overdue payments
• Ensuring debtors are minimised, and outstanding invoices are paid when due
• Posting payments and maintaining an accurate record of bank statements and client payment remittances
• Assist with loading invoices to client portals accurately, in a timely manner and with all relevant information present
• Build relationships with client payables teams both internally and externally to enable easy debt collection and any queries to be promptly resolved
• Produce and maintain debtors reports that clearly identify any risk to payment and tie back to month-end receivables
• Assist the business with timesheet compliance, helping the delivery team to report assigned hours accurately
• Produce hours reports and statistics for client teams.
• Process employee expenses fortnightly and ensure they are consistent with company policy
• Ad hoc analysis as required by the account teams and line manager.
• Improve process notes and documentation of day-to-day tasks.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO HAVE

• Highly organised individual with an interest in accountancy and finance
• Basic level Excel spreadsheet skills (with an appetite to improve) and systems literacy
• Professionally appropriate written communication style
• Experience working in a fast-paced, quick turnaround environment (can be other industries and from part-time jobs)
• Ability to work well under pressure, working accurately with attention to detail and meeting deadlines
• Good communication skills and ability to build relationships across the organisation
• Real team player keen to embrace change
• Power BI skills would be a bonus but not essential

BEHAVIOURS

• Someone who is curious, flexible and agile.
• A continuous-learning mindset, always looking for ways to develop and refine existing ways of doing things
• Desire to develop analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proactive and solutions-focused

OTHER

• Hybrid working (office and working from home) – liaise with Finance Analyst for which days to attend the office each week