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Location

Croydon, Cambridgeshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

• Job Title: Financial Accountant
• Base Location: Ealing with travel to other London offices ( Croydon and Fleet street)
• Hybrid role ( 3 days from home, 2 days in the office)
• Employment Type: Full time, Permanent
• Salary: £ Competitive + Benefits

Trading as emap for its B2B division, Metropolis International is a fast-growing business, privately owned Media Group with over £50m of annual revenue, structured in two divisions – consumer media, and business-to-business media. In both parts of the business, we run print magazines, digital content and both face-to-face and virtual awards, conferences, and other events. Metropolis is actively looking at acquiring more media businesses. We employ over 480 people in offices in West London, Croydon, Fleet street, Devon and Dublin.

Overall Purpose of the Role:

The purpose of this role is to support the Group’s Central Accounting team.

Cash Reporting, Balance Sheet control, Central P&L reporting, Group consolidation and monthly pack production, Budgets and forecast, corporation tax analysis, VAT, assist with statutory reporting and audit.

Key responsibilities:

• Control of Group Balance Sheet Reconciliations, maintaining quarterly files and ensuring all reconciliations are done and signed off.
• Subscription accounting across the group.
• Assist Group Reporting Manager in Month end tasks
• Responsible for accounting on Central costs including reporting across all Group entities for shared services (Finance, IT, Property, HR, etc.,) including budgets and forecasts. This includes any ad hoc reporting requirements
• Maintain the Lease Property file and ensure rent, rates etc., are paid on time for all properties
• Completion and Submission of VAT and VAT IOSS/OSS returns, GB and overseas
• Analyse P/L accounts for Corporation tax monthly
• Assist with audit and preparation of Entity and Group Statutory accounts
• Involvement in Projects as required.
• Completion other statutory returns (ONS etc)

Skills and experience:

• Qualified / nearly qualified Accountant (ACA or ACCA)
• Proactive hard working self-starter ready to go that extra mile
• Analytical
• Organised and efficient
• Excellent Excel skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present numbers in a logical, structured and clear way
• Superb accuracy and attention to detail
• Calm under pressure with prior experience of working to deadlines
• Good team player & easy to get on with
• Has worked on Accounting systems

Core competencies:

Supporting the company values You will work in a tactful and confidential manner, always supporting a fair recruitment process. With a Business first approach problem solving, always maintaining a positive employer brand. Demonstrating a good understanding of the following standards:

Change : Able to adapt to change, multitask and reprioritise workload where necessary. Making effective and practical decisions or choices based on the specific situation.

Commercial mindset : has a good understanding of the business current priorities, and how you contribute and add value to the wider business within your role.

Resourcing : Understand the touch points of the candidate journey, where your work sits within it and the impact it has on others and vice versa

People : – Understanding and respecting diversity and inclusion. Building trust by role-modelling ethical behavior, and applying principles and values consistently in decision-making

Personal Attributes:

• Self-motivated, exceptionally organised and detail oriented
• Resilient, you will be adaptable with a positive can-do attitude
• A cross functional, collaboration team player
• Able to work off own initiative, while also taking direction
• Always demonstrates consistent professional communication.
• Able to build trust within their immediate and wider teams’, creating strong relationships.
• Takes ownership and accountability

Learning & Development:

At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees.

Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology . We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organizational objectives.

To support our employees’ career development, we have designed specialized programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy .

This excitingpositionis a full-time hybrid role. 2 days in the office, 3 daysfrom home. This could change over time depending on business needs.

Benefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.

• 25 days of holiday per year (with the option to buy or sell)
• Health plan
• Life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Discounted gym memberships
• Retail discount vouchers
• Rail season ticket loans
• Private virtual GP access
• Pension scheme
• Income protection and more
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• Seasonal flu jabs on site
• One paid volunteer day per year
• Summer and Winter parties
• Work from home during August
• In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects

Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at .

Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

How to apply: Please send your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of the closing date.

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