Junior Management Accountant

About the role

We're looking for a Junior Management Accountant to join our Money 20/20 finance team in London. This role would be ideally suited to someone with an accounts and finance degree who is looking for their first job. The Junior Management Accountant will work as part of a small team with lots of development opportunities and study support. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Provide support for managements accountants on daily finance tasks, including in depth analysis of accounts and expenses and preparing journals
• Contact point for the business for all AP related queries, including vendor set-up, purchase orders, payments
• Perform aspects of month end processes, including analysis of revenue and cost and preparation on journals.
• Balance Sheet reconciliations, including capitalisation of assets
• Cost tracking/management, working with team to ensure forecast costs remain within budget.
• Support in the annual budgets and forecasting processes.
• Support internal and external audit process
• Support in the daily, weekly and monthly sales reporting and granular segmentation of data to support the individual events.
• Gain experience in different areas of the finance function, including trade reporting, business partnering and financial accounting
• Ad-hoc projects/analysis as requested.

Your experience

• Bachelor's degree educated or equivalent
• CIMA / ACCA part-qualified accountant or the intention to qualify
• Previous work experience, e.g. internship, university placement year etc
• Demonstrable Excel and Powerpoint skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to communicate effectively with leadership
• A confident, highly motivated team player
• Thrives in a challenging, fast paced and dynamic working environment
• Good problem solver with intellectual curiosity

What we offer

Our benefits package incorporates what we're passionate about - unlocking your future, overall well-being and sustainability - whilst giving you control over your benefits.

• 25 days of holiday per year - with the option to buy or sell between 1-5 days
• Great learning and development opportunities
• Bonus, Pension, Private Medical and Dental Insurance plans
• Life Assurance; Income Protection and Critical Illness covers
• Option to opt into the Ascential Shares Scheme
• Volunteering opportunities
• Season ticket loans

In addition, we offer flexible benefit packages that include Childcare Vouchers; Cycle to Work; Retail Vouchers; Gourmet Card; Gym Flex; Gadget Insurance, Health Assessments and Will Writing.

We also place great importance on health, lifestyle and wellbeing consistently, in which you will have the options to fuel up on free fruit, attend yoga sessions, join our running club, or perhaps taking up on a lunchtime massages.

About Cannes Lions.

We've created a space where the smartest, most outrageously inventive and ambitious people in the financial industry can connect and create. With the pace of industry change increasing and the reach of new possibilities expanding, this is needed more than ever.

Joining us will let you be part of one of the fastest growing event brands in the world. It's an opportunity to really push the boundaries and release your creative spirit at a company that does things differently on a global platform.

Money 20/20 is an Ascential brand. Ascential is a specialist, global, information company that helps the world's most ambitious businesses win in the digital economy.

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