Management Accountant in London - Bond Moran Recruitment Ltd

Senior Management Accountant - Creative Industries

£55,000 – £65,000 p.a. - Central London | Hybrid working (2 days in the office)

Are you an experienced Management Accountant who enjoys getting underneath the numbers rather than simply producing them?

Would you like to work within an established, independently owned business operating across publishing, licensed products and international markets?

And are you confident enough to present your findings, challenge where appropriate and work directly with senior decision-makers?

We’re working with a highly established, independently owned business within the creative industry, based in Central London.

Operating internationally, the business works across a varied portfolio of licensed products, merchandise and publishing titles, with sales and distribution across the UK, US and other global markets.

They are now looking to recruit an experienced Management Accountant to join their finance team, reporting to the Financial Controller.

This is a broad and commercially interesting role where accuracy is important, but so too is the ability to understand what the numbers are telling you and communicate that clearly to senior management.

The role

You’ll take ownership of key areas of the monthly management accounting and reporting process, including:

• Preparing monthly management accounts, schedules and journals
• Producing detailed P&L and balance sheet analysis
• Reporting profitability across individual product areas
• Preparing sales reports and providing meaningful commentary on performance
• Analysing sales, marketing and production expenditure
• Preparing accruals, prepayments and work-in-progress schedules
• Supporting stock valuation across UK and international distributors
• Preparing budgets and forecasts and presenting these at review meetings
• Maintaining life-to-date P&Ls across titles and product lines
• Supporting royalty, licensing and profit-share reporting
• Producing executive-level summaries highlighting key variances and commercial issues
• Helping to improve reporting processes, systems and automation

Your experience

We’re looking for somebody who has already developed strong management accounting experience and is comfortable taking ownership of their work.

You may be qualified, part-qualified, studying or qualified by experience - the emphasis here is very much on capability rather than letters after your name.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Strong management accounting experience
• Excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Good technical accounting knowledge
• Strong analytical and Excel skills
• The confidence to present financial information to senior management
• The ability to explain financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders
• A commercially minded approach and an interest in understanding what sits behind the numbers
• The confidence and resilience to work effectively within an entrepreneurial, owner-led environment

Previous experience within publishing, media, entertainment, licensed products or another IP-led business would be particularly interesting, especially where this has involved royalties, licensing, stock or profitability by product/title.

However, direct publishing experience is not essential.

This is an opportunity to join a long-established, successful and independently owned business operating within a genuinely interesting sector.

The finance team works closely with colleagues across creative, commercial, production and operational functions, meaning this is not a role where finance operates in isolation.

The business operates a hybrid working model, with typically 2 days based in its Central London office and the remainder working remotely.

For an experienced Management Accountant who enjoys variety, ownership and being close to the commercial side of a business, this offers something rather different from the standard month-end role.

If you’d like to find out more, please apply or get in touch for an informal and confidential conversation.

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We do our best to reply to EVERY application!

We have been candidates too and we work hard to treat you in the same way that we would want to be treated. Therefore, we try not to rely on a generic advert disclaimer as this is something that is important for us and the businesses we partner with.

Given the high volume of responses we receive from the combination of job boards, social media and other sources and despite our best efforts, many of our responses will be via email as we simply can’t call every application - We know that may not quite what you want to hear but we hope you’ll understand and that you like our approach.

We work with great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes us, and our clients stronger, more creative and ultimately better at what we all do.

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