Job Description

The position sits within the Production team and reports into the Production Finance Manager.

Assistant Management Accountant duties to include, but not limited to:

• Preparing monthly management accounts for all Commissioning departments
• Assisting in the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual accounts
• Posting cost accruals and prepayments
• Monitoring transactions and coding invoices to the correct projects
• Reviewing month-end adjustments
• Producing monthly summary and individual project reports
• Assisting with the preparation of standard departmental report packs
• Understanding spend and explaining variances to budget
• Reconciling headcount and salary costs each month. Reviewing all headcount or salary change requests and ensuring key movements are incorporated into forecasts
• Preparing information for quarterly meetings to review overheads with key stakeholders
• Setting annual budget for overheads with the support of the Finance Manager and proactively engaging the relevant stakeholders
• Continually looking for improvements and implementing changes to processes that will develop the management accounting information of costs within the business
• Liaising with multiple teams sitting within the production finance division

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The ideal candidate will be part qualified with intermediate excel skills and have a solid understanding of debits and credits, experience of both using/posting journals and analysing + manipulating data. Experience within the media industry is a plus but not required as this role requires someone with the right mindset who wants to learn and grow with the role.