Assistant Management Accountnt
Your new company
You'll be joining a global enterprise that operates across publishing, entertainment, experiential marketing, and strategic brand collaborations. Its commercial model includes intellectual property licencing, creative consultancy, and bespoke campaigns designed to captivate audiences and elevate brand presence.
Your new role
This is a newly created permanent Assistant Management Accountant job, due to company expansion. You will join an existing finance team of circa 15 people, reporting to the Finance Manager, supporting the Management Accountant with the production of management packs for UK and international business subsidiaries. Your responsibilities will include (but not be limited to):
- Assisting with the preparation of monthly management accounts including balance sheet, P&L, cash flow, KPI's
- Maintenance of P&L revenue schedules, including accrued and deferred revenue
- Maintaining the fixed asset register
- Balance sheet reconciliation
- Posting journals, prepayments and accruals
- WIP and stock reconciliation
- Financial KIP analysis
- Assisting with annual budgeting and monthly re-forecasting
- Provide assistance with annual audit and statutory accounts
- Assisting with VAT returns
What you'll need to succeed
- Recent, relevant experience in a similar Assistant Accountant / Assistant Management Accountant role
- You will be an active studier, working towards CIMA/ACCA qualification
- Experience using NetSuite, Workday or Salesforce is beneficial, though not mandatory.
- Comfortable navigating ERP and CRM platforms to support financial workflows and reporting.
- Exposure to month-end close activities, including preparation of management accounts.
- Competent in posting accruals and prepayments and assisting with balance sheet reviews.
- A background in the media, creative, or entertainment sectors is advantageous.
- Understanding of industry-specific financial practices and stakeholder dynamics.
- Experience handling transactions across different currencies.
- Familiarity with FX implications and international payment processes.
- Worked within finance teams supporting multiple business entities or subsidiaries (essential)
- Able to manage intercompany transactions, reporting, and compliance across jurisdictions.
What you'll get in return
- Flexible working options are available with a hybrid working pattern of 1 day in the office and 4 from home each week following successful completion of training and/or probationary period (3 days in office during probation).
- Study support
- Discretionary annual bonus of up to 8%
- 25 days annual leave with the option to roll over unused days, plus bank holidays. Additionally, the company shuts down on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
- BUPA healthcare
- Pension (employee 3%, employer 5%)
- Life assurance scheme 4x salary
- Travel insurance
- Eye tests / contribution to cost of glasses required for computer use
- Subsidised gym membership
- Learning & development opportunities (please note that this does not include study support)
- Two volunteering days per year
- Employee assistance programme
- Company/team socials and events
What you need to do now
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