Assistant Management Accountant London, England
Job description
- Assisting Finance Manager for Vice UK Limited and Edition Worldwide Limited with producing the monthly management accounts including cost accruals, prepayments, accrued/ deferred revenue, journal entries and other reconciliations.
- Overseeing intercompany reconciliation process for above entities including driving settlements and monthly reporting to the US.
- Responsible for Concur and Barclays card queries, reconciliation etc. for the relevant entities.
- Monitoring production expenditure and projections against budget - responsible for cost reports, reviewing cost managers and reporting systems, ensuring that production expenditure is continually monitored and managed against the budget and fed into the month end reports.
- Helping production set up cost managers for new productions based on budget provided by production managers and ensuring new project codes are set up.
- Cost Managers reconciliation: Running ledger reports for each production project code and reviewing costs included in the cost managers trackers against the system.
- Reviewing the production accruals with the FM’s to ensure appropriate back-ups/support.
- Monitoring production expenditure and projections against budget. Assisting with reconciling costs to complete vs accruals in Netsuite at month end.
- Updating Payroll Sheets on the Cost Manager for all Fixed Term Contract staff with new starters or contract amendments in order to get cost coded against the correct projects including journaling the costs across to correct projects.
- Statutory requirements: assisting with year-end audit and statutory processes.
- Assisting the Finance Managers with ad hoc queries / clean-up projects.
- Assisting operation teams with creation of internal Project codes in Netsuite
- Newly qualified / part-qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) with 1-2 years of experience in management accounting and financial analysis
- Production accounting highly desirable
- Experience within a busy and fluid media / creative environment would be preferable
- Experience in business partnering and communicating with finance & non-finance stakeholders effectively and articulately for all International regions
- Strong system and Excel skills
- Highly organised, detail oriented and meticulous
- Proven experience working with tight deadlines; working effectively under pressure
- Capable of working independently without being micro-managed. A team player with a proactive and enthusiastic approach who takes initiative where needed
- NetSuite/Salesforce/Concur experience highly desired
- Ability to analyze and make recommendations to improve internal processes
- Experience in rapidly changing, global business, with a wide range of goods and services under management