This role is a Mat cover scheduled to begin in June 2023 – August 2024. This role is full-time and reports to MD. This role involves hybrid working at our office in London Bridge SE1. Please only apply if you can attend 2-3 days a week during the first month.  

As a member of the Back Office team, the role of the Management Accountant is to keep the business compliant and financially sound. 

Day-to-day responsibilities

Providing finance support including: 
Bookkeeping, purchase order management, purchase ledger, credit control, payroll (including expense management, initiating payments, and pensions management), reports and data on agency performance, and HMRC submissions including VAT and PAYE. Additionally, responsible for gathering and analysing trends within the organisation's finances, putting together reports for senior leaders, controlling and forecasting income and expenditure, advising on finance-related decisions, and developing and managing financial systems/policies.

HR and compliance support including:  
Managing contract-based salary triggers, ensuring that all letters and HR admin are compliant and in place for all members of staff, working with the HR supplier to evolve the staff handbook and benefits package, providing reporting on scheduled 121s, and keeping all HR records about present staff members accurate, compliant and updated.

Experience levels
The ideal candidate should have experience in autonomously managing finance using Xero or similar finance systems in a similar-sized professional services business. Although experience with BreatheHR or a similar HR platform is preferable, it is not essential. The candidate does not need to be CIPD, ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified, as the processes are already established.

Please only apply if you have agency experience or experience in a similar high-paced working environment.

Job description

We're looking to add a Senior Account Executive to our Client Partner team, to support, nurture and develop client relationships and lead on integrated projects, spanning print, digital, and video. An ideal opportunity for an Account Executive (or similar) looking to take the next step in their career.

You'll have excellent attention-to-detail coupled with B2B marketing experience so that you can shape and craft communications that make our clients proud. In addition, you're likely to have worked in an agency before, so will understand and be comfortable with the unique dynamic of working with external stakeholders.

You'll be personable and an excellent communicator, comfortable listening and interrogating briefs and presenting the agency's work to senior stakeholders. Excellent written and verbal English means you're comfortable working with all levels of an organisation.

You'll build and manage direct relationships with client stakeholders across your projects and accounts, your focus will be providing quality and consistency across both. As part of our Client Partner team, day-to-day, you'll work with our creative, content, technical, campaign management teams, taking responsibility for the agency's work for your clients and providing advice and guidance to shape our solutions. Alongside this, you'll enjoy rolling your sleeves up and making things happen, but in both cases, nothing motivates you more than the feeling of pride that comes from crafting great work.

A generous training budget and development support are in place for all.

Main responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day account relationships, including stakeholder management, project oversight, and proposing solutions to grow our relationships
• Lead presentations and briefings to shape and share the agency's work
• Use your B2B marketing knowledge to provide credible advice and consultancy to our clients
• Be keen to develop yourself and learn

Industry knowledge

• Have a strong understanding of the B2B marketing industry.
• Preferable experience managing technology clients, SaaS businesses would be ideal and have Channel Marketing experience.

Personal qualities:

Our culture values honesty and trustworthiness as we always do the right thing. It is a place where bright and curious people thrive.

About Velo

We craft powerful brand communications, integrated marketing, and meaningful customer experiences for global technology, industrial, and professional services companies. We aim to be the best – not the biggest – in our chosen sectors.

Small but mighty, our 30-strong team is packed with smart, inquisitive, and ambitious people who offer services that wrap around our clients to provide insight, marketing, communications, and creative expertise – all with the best client service possible. As a result, our clients enjoy partnerships, not projects.

We craft B2B marketing to be proud of, which is why we've been built on client recommendation.

Although diverse and varied, it is always fast-moving. Yet, in every case, we provide real expertise coupled with excellent client service that makes many choose us as their preferred agency year after year.

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent