Financial Accountant (Intercompany)

Financial Accountant (Intercompany)

Reports to: Finance Manager

Location: London

About Us

Join the place creatives call home! Fremantle is a powerhouse of the TV and Film industry. We are one of the world’s largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of Entertainment, Drama & Film and Documentaries.

From critically acclaimed dramas like The Responder, starring Martin Freeman, award winning films including Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar nominated The Hand of God to incredible entertainment like The Rap Game, Too Hot to Handle, The Apprentice and Britain’s Got Talent, we make shows with global appeal.

Our purpose

We aspire to tell stories that connect people around the world. We believe our shows should reflect and celebrate the world we live in and we want to create irresistible entertainment and engage with our audience. To achieve this, we must have people from all backgrounds and cultures working in our teams and on our shows, and we commit to creating opportunities for talent by being inclusive in all that we do.

Job overview

The Financial Accountant (Intercompany) is a key member of the General Ledger team. Reporting to the Finance Manager they will own the timely completion of the day-to-day activities of the General Ledger cycle with a particular focus on intra and intercompany activity.

This includes but is not limited to:

• Contributing toward ensuring the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of all related transactions, balances, monthly closings and reporting
• Continuously improving Inter-company and intra-company processes, resolving intercompany differences and reconciliations
• Supporting the Finance Manager to drive consistency and process improvements
• Ensuring that transactions are processed in accordance with the Fremantle controls environment
• Providing expertise on the GL function and activity

Here you’ll get to:

• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in the UK business units and central finance teams.
• Primary responsibility for the inter and intra company processes. To liaise with entities within the Group relating to UK business units to ensure reconciliation of all inter/intra-company balances on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Ensure validation of the journal postings for the business units are in full accordance with FM internal guidelines, tax regulations as well as local & international standards and following-up all related pending issues. The GL transactions relate to all GL accounts (B/S, I/S and off balance-sheet commitments)
• Undertake Balance Sheet reconciliations and analysis ensuring Business documentation provided can support balance sheet positions.
• Ensure Business postings are completed in accordance with Month end/Quarterly and Year End timetable and where necessary work with business to assist in meeting those deadlines.
• Prepare reporting packs (generated by ‘SAP’ and interfaced into the reporting system ‘BOFC’) to Company on a monthly, quarterly basis and annual basis
• Prepare support for the quarterly reporting packs
• Revaluation of all monetary assets and liabilities and analysis of the impact recorded in the profit and loss
• Preparation and compilation of audit documentation and the assist in the statutory audit process including completion and review of the tax packs.
• Performance of controls analysis, testing and working with the business to resolve controls gaps
• Assistance to the business on all financial systems and management of changes to systems where there is an accounting impact.
• Working with the GL team in any ad-hoc financial projects e.g. providing analysis and advice as appropriate

The ideal candidate will be a Qualified Accountant (ACA or equivalent) preferably with experience of working within a finance function of a mid-sized corporation or of auditing mid-sized corporations (preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate a track record of experience within this type of role). Preferably the candidate will have experience in understanding complex business processes and inter-company transactions and is used to working in a controls-based environment. The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate the following key competencies:

• strong background in IFRS accounting
• confident and enthusiastic team player
• excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills
• strong analytical and process-oriented mind
• advanced Excel skills (vlookups/pivot tables)
• knowledge of SAP and/or BOFC is highly desirable
• background in financial system controls is highly desirable (e.g. SOX or similar)

Our benefits include generous company pension, summer Fridays, audience tickets, employee assistance program, access to free courses and training, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, business coaching sessions and volunteer days.

If you need any of this information in a different format or would like to suggest a different form of application, please contact careers@fremantle.com

Fremantle is part of RTL Group, a global leader across broadcast, content and digital, itself a division of the international media giant Bertelsmann.  For more information, please visit Fremantle.com, follow us @FremantleHQ or visit our LinkedIn and Facebook pages.