About VMI:
VMI is an award-winning agency, now a part of Journey, producing stunning visual imagery, animations, and virtual reality experiences that enthrall and engage viewers. We fully immerse ourselves in understanding our customers’ motivations and translating them into something effective that is elegant, beautiful, and truly different. Our mission is to create disruptive and exciting customer experiences through technology that evoke real emotion and impact.
Growing at pace, we have an amazing team of dedicated professionals with a strong culture built around doing great work and having fun whilst doing it. We have bold ambitions for 2025 and are looking for a talented Finance Assistant to help us grow.
If you are a motivated individual passionate about providing finance support to our growing finance team, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to contribute to our team's success.
This is a hybrid role, with three days a week in-office at our dynamic Studio in Brixton.
About the Role:
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Manager to lead our dynamic finance team. This is a thrilling opportunity to become an integral part of a growing and innovative organization, where you can develop and advance your career in financial management and accounting.
In this role, you will oversee accurate financial records, ensure policy compliance, and support efficient financial operations. You will work across a range of financial functions, gaining hands-on experience while contributing to continuous process improvements in a fast-paced, creative environment.
We are seeking a well-rounded professional who is comfortable managing day-to-day financial operations, financial reporting, and strategic financial planning, while also eager to take on new challenges and grow within the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) functions, including invoice processing and credit control.
- Prepare monthly financial reports, including accruals, prepayments, and variance analysis.
- Reconcile bank statements and general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy in financial records.
- Oversee month-end closing processes, including journal entries and fixed asset management.
- Manage payroll processing (prior experience highly preferred but not essential).
- Conduct balance sheet reconciliations, quarterly VAT returns, and compliance reporting.
- Implement and optimize financial systems and processes.
- Provide support during statutory audits, ensuring timely preparation of required documentation.
- Oversee revenue recognition and cash flow tracking.
- Maintain and improve business platforms, including financial software and reporting tools.
- Perform ad hoc financial analysis and provide insights to support business decision-making.
About You:
This role is ideal for a detail-oriented, ambitious finance professional looking to expand their career in a dynamic and creative environment. You thrive in a fast-paced setting, enjoy problem-solving, and are eager to develop a well-rounded skill set across accounting, financial operations, and business processes. With a proactive mindset and a keen eye for accuracy, you are ready to take on new challenges and contribute to the success of a growing organization.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in a Finance role required
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Studying towards or part-qualified (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent).
- Payroll experience highly desired but not required.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting.
- Strong proficiency in Excel and familiarity with financial software (NetSuite experience is a plus but not required).
- Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Proactive, solutions-focused mindset with an eagerness to learn and grow.
- Creative agency experience in a similar role strongly preferred
Salary Pay Range
£40,000—£50,000 GBP
About Journey:
But we're so much more than a combination of acquisitions; we're a revolutionary framework of layered design capabilities akin to the layers of a technology stack for software companies. Like the best technology stacks, our framework continuously evolves to embrace new capabilities and creative possibilities with the future of the human experience at the forefront. This game-changing framework, the Journey Experience Stack, allows us to design for every touchpoint and create uncommonly cohesive brand universes, drawing on our collective expertise in interior design, lighting design, media design, interactive design, and content creation to deliver industry-first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate, and cultural institutions.
No other full-service studio practices multidimensional design or vertically integrates its experience capabilities with this level of sophistication. Whether we’re reimagining the hospital-patient relationship, creating the world’s most immersive entertainment venue, revolutionizing live theater, or crafting virtual twins that accelerate ideas’ passage from vision to reality, Journey’s work is pioneering the shift of how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world.
