Annie Coles

Group Financial Director

Annie joined STEAK in July 2011 and has overall responsibility for all financial matters, overseeing financial reporting systems and controls and fostering a strong commercial focus throughout the entire Steak Group including the UK, US and Australia offices as well as sister company Minute Steak.

Annie has worked  as a finance professional in Market Research and IT recruitment before starting in Media in April 2000. She spent 6 1/2 years within the Publicis Groupe working for Starcom Mediavest as Group Financial Controller & then ZenithOptimedia as their UK Finance Director before joining Arena Media, part of the Havas Groupe,  as Finance Director in 2007 where she was responsible for financial management and reporting across its collective of offline and digital media specialist agencies.

During an eleven year career in the sector, she has gained media-specialist experience of financial business management including delivering strategic financial reporting and forecasting, and running back-office operations.