Compensation Overview

At Future, our promo and marketing costs form a big part of our overheads base, keeping this cost base under control is critical to ensuring the ongoing success of our business. On a monthly basis this role will look after the tasks required to ensure that we understand variances to forecast, changes within the business and how these translate into future costs.

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

What you’ll be doing...

• Ensuring all month-end journals required for the monthly management accounts are posted 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.

Experience that’ll put you ahead of the curve...

• 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

Internal Job Family Level P6

The expected range for this role is £30,000 - £40,000

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

Who are we…

We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it. 

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

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

Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

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