Step into a senior accountant role where your expertise will directly shape strategic decisions for a leading entertainment provider. This is a high-impact position in a dynamic, hybrid environment, offering broad exposure across financial reporting, budgeting, tax, and internal controls. Youll be trusted as a key partner to leadership, ensuring financial integrity and insight in a fast-moving, content-driven business.
About the Role:
You will oversee the full general ledger close process, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting that underpins management and statutory accounts. Working closely with finance leadership and operational teams, youll drive budgeting and forecasting cycles, deliver insightful variance analysis, and maintain robust internal controls. Your work will support informed decision-making, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across the finance function.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage month-end and year-end close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, and review of general ledger balances.
- Prepare and review financial statements and management reports, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with relevant accounting standards.
- Lead budgeting and forecasting processes, collaborating with business stakeholders to develop, challenge, and refine financial plans.
- Perform detailed variance analysis against budgets and forecasts, highlighting key drivers and providing actionable commentary to management.
- Coordinate with external auditors, preparing audit schedules, resolving queries, and supporting timely completion of audits.
- Oversee tax compliance activities, including preparation and review of tax calculations, filings, and supporting documentation.
- Design, implement, and monitor internal controls over financial reporting, identifying gaps and driving remediation and process improvements.
- Build and maintain advanced Excel-based models to support scenario planning, cash flow analysis, and performance tracking for entertainment projects and operations.
Key Requirements:
- Significant experience in accounting roles with progression to senior-level responsibilities, ideally within or closely aligned to the entertainment or media sector.
- Strong expertise in general ledger accounting, month-end close, and financial statement preparation.
- Proven track record managing budgeting and forecasting cycles and supporting senior stakeholders with financial insights.
- Demonstrated experience in tax compliance and working with external auditors in a corporate environment.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis tools.
- Hands-on experience with financial modeling to support business cases, project evaluations, and scenario analysis.
- Solid understanding of internal controls frameworks and practical experience in designing and improving control processes.
- High level of accuracy, analytical thinking, and ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience within a subscription-based or content-driven entertainment provider.
- Familiarity with ERP and accounting systems commonly used in mid-to-large organisations.
- Exposure to revenue recognition complexities specific to entertainment, licensing, or digital media.
- Experience supporting or leading finance-related process improvement or system implementation projects.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate financial information to non-finance audiences.
Qualifications:
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related discipline.
- Post-qualification experience in a senior accounting or finance role within a corporate environment.
- Ongoing commitment to professional development and staying current with accounting and tax regulations.
If youre a senior accountant looking to apply your technical depth and commercial insight in a high-profile entertainment setting, wed like to hear from you. Apply now to take on a role where your financial leadership will make a visible difference.