Our Media is a leading special-interest content business, based in the buzzing, creative city of Bristol. We're home to market-leading brands in craft, cycling, science and nature, homes and music.

We help our audiences pursue their passions through highly trusted, original content – in print, video and online. Our much-loved brands include BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Your Home, Gathered.how, BikeRadar and Cycling Plus.

You’ll see creativity and collaboration in action every day, as well as a commitment to transparency that ensures everyone knows how we are progressing. And we like to have a fun along the way, with a range of social and reward & recognition opportunities taking place throughout the year.

The Junior Management Accountant will work closely with the wider finance team providing key commercial information to the business. Will provide one of the first ports of call for finance queries from the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with month end procedures such as accruals, prepayments, month end journals
• Perform accounting module month end processes e.g. WIP & GRNI &
• Paper stock control
• Preparation of monthly management accounts for a subset of brands
• Responsible for analysing, posting and reconciling newsstand accounts
• Provide verbal and written analysis to brand and commercial leads
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• National Statistics reporting
• Support the SFM and MA in all processes
• Ad hoc tasks for the wider finance team where required

Essential:

• Studying towards an accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA)
• Some experience in a junior role in a management accounts team
• Advanced excel skills
• Able to work independently and on own initiative
• Strong understanding of finance fundamentals
• Experience of working to deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work accurately
• Excellent verbal communication and relationship building skills

Preferred:

• Experience with audit and year end processes

We respect and value differences. We believe that when people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives work together, we can create the most value for our people, readers, customers, and society. If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with everything listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may still be a good fit for this or other roles.

We’re striving to create a more diverse and inclusive environment and to ensure our content is representative of all our audiences. We have established five internal D&I network groups to help our people feel supported and included, and to provide an open environment for people to network, mentor and exchange ideas, solutions, and experiences. If there is anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible for you, please do let us know at [email protected].

Flexible working

Our people benefit from a flexi time policy, with start and finish times between 08:00 – 10:00 and 16:00 – 18:00

Company benefits include

• Pension contribution matched to 5%
• Season ticket loan
• Hybrid working pattern, flexi start/finish time
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas closure, plus your birthday off
• Option to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday a year
• Social committee, regular in-house learning events
• 4x life assurance

Our values

We strongly believe that work is not just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it. We want our people to thrive and develop, and we want to effect positive change in the world.

We have an ambitious and robust sustainability strategy, which includes a zero-to-waste, renewable-energy-fuelled office at Eagle House, the complete removal of single-use plastics from our supply chain, and a roadmap to be fully carbon neutral by 2030.

To put that spirit at the heart of our business, we recently co-created a set of values with input from everyone here. Our values are:

• Be kind
• Always curious
• Be the best we can be