Senior Finance Specialist

3 weeks ago


Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom Future Full time

At Future, our goal is to maintain a lean cost base, which is crucial for the company's ongoing success. This role will be responsible for managing tasks that ensure we understand variances to forecast, changes within the business, and how these impact future costs on a monthly basis.

The Management Accounting team is a new function within the wider finance team, focusing on creating a centre of excellence for producing month-end results and informing the business.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Posting month-end journals required for the monthly management accounts accurately and within agreed SLAs.
  • Ownership of balance sheets, including accruals and prepayment schedules for their respective areas.
  • Reviewing postings with relevant areas of the business to ensure accuracy.
  • Production of slides & commentary to explain month-end results.
  • Ad-hoc reporting and analysis to aid in the review of management accounts.
  • Answering queries from both the business and wider finance teams as required.
  • Ad hoc analysis as required.
  • Task-level oversight and mentoring of Finance Analysts.

Requirements:

  • Pursuing or interest in pursuing an accounting qualification ACA/CIMA/ACCA.
  • Prior management accounting experience, ideally in a large organisation.
  • Strong communication and people skills to build strong relationships across the organisation.
  • Bright, energetic and self-motivated with a proactive approach to work, and a focus on accuracy and execution.
  • Team player who is able to communicate and collaborate across Finance to ensure month-end deadlines are met.
  • Able to effectively guide and mentor junior team members.
  • Effective stakeholder and time management essential.
  • Possess a positive attitude to change, and a drive to challenge and improve processes.
  • Experience in Netsuite, Planning analytics, BigQuery or other Financial/ data systems desirable.

This is a Hybrid role from our Cardiff Office, working three days from the office, two from home.

About Future:

We're a global media company with 3000+ colleagues across 250+ brands, speaking to 400 million people every month. We're ambitious and looking for talented people to join us.

Our Culture:

We promote diversity and inclusion in everything we do. We're an equal opportunity employer and our culture is underpinned by our values and respect for all backgrounds and beliefs.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience.



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