Management Accountant - Recurring Revenue
Future PLC, United Kingdom
Job Description
Role Purpose
The role reports into the Commercial Finance Business Partner for recurring and digital content revenue. This role is responsible for the financial completeness of the ledger both Pamp;L and B/S, working to a tight month-end timetable, for recurring and digital content revenue and associated cost of sales and overheads. This role would be a subject matter expert on the posting flows within his/ her area. This role will also provide key support to the Financial Planning and Analysis cycle.
Key Accountabilities
Core responsibilities:
- Post accruals, prepayment and deferred revenue journals.
- Interrogate the integrity of the ledger and reconcile transactions to linked ERP and reporting tools and softwares.
- Close the Pamp;L to a tight timetable.
- Provide commentary and variance analysis on month-end numbers.
- Complete and review Balance Sheet Reconciliations and identify risk.
- Review associated AR and Cashbook postings.
- Be a key contact for external auditors and interim and year-end audit deliverables.
- Engage with the business and operational teams, to ensure robustness of the ledger and record to report function.
- Support the commercial finance team during the annual planning process.
- Deliver appropriate reporting/analysis to the business as required.
- Review the work of an Accounts Assistant
Requirements
- Graduate with Accounting amp; Finance or relevant work experience
- Experience of month-end close to a tight timetable
- Ownership of B/S reconciliations
- Strong MS Office skills including Excel (including pivot tables, macros and vlookups), Word and Powerpoint skills, as well as Google Sheets/docs
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to quickly absorb and proactive approach to work
- An enquiring mind with strong analysis and numerical ability
- The ability to be both a team player and able to work using your own initiative
- An ability to work in an environment that changes at pace
Desirable skills and experience
- An understanding of the media business desirable and or recurring revenues
- Part qualified accountant working towards a professional qualification: e.g. CIMA, ACCA.
Benefits
What will I get in return:
As well as our standard benefits, we have a number of awesome perks available to our staff including:
- Unlimited paid time off (yes you read that right!)
- A share in our success- every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year
- Free digital magazine subscriptions and access to back copies of our print magazines and bookazines
- Discounted gym membership and onsite health amp; wellbeing (yoga at lunch anyone?!)
- Annual Future conference - get together with your colleagues to celebrate success and look forward to what's next
- Regular staff socials arranged by our wonderful Employee Community amp; Culture committees
- Huge opportunities to learn and develop whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch amp; learns, hosted by your colleagues
We are Future
Connectors. Creators. Experience Makers
Future is a global multi-platform media company and leading digital publisher, with scalable brands and diversified revenue streams. We are dedicated to connecting over 300 million people worldwide with their passions, through expert content, world-class events and cutting-edge proprietary technology. We have big ambitions to transform media and change people’s lives.
We have a market-leading portfolio of over 220 brands spanning across technology, gaming, TV amp; entertainment, women’s lifestyle, music, sport, creative and photography, home interest and B2B. You may have heard of us
But a stellar heritage isn’t enough. We continue to grow our portfolio and launch new brands, restlessly looking to improve, innovate and push the boundaries of what can be done. We develop leading-edge technology which is disrupting the media marketplace.
Together, we’re exceeding the expectations of everyone we exist for our audiences, clients, staff and shareholders. In a short space of time, Future has transformed into an innovative global media platform.
We reap the rewards too, of course, with a fun and creative place to work with endless opportunities to forge a career. We believe in teamwork that transcends location, so we don’t have a Future HQ but a globally connected workforce across the UK, US, Europe and Australia
Every kind of talent is celebrated here.. We hire for person not for the role, looking for people who share our ambitions to be bold and innovate, making Future a global