Management Accountant

Summary

FuturLab is looking for a Management Accountant to join their game development studio. The role involves maintaining accurate financial records and ensuring smooth financial operations. The candidate should be detail-oriented, proactive, and eager to work in a dynamic and creative environment. The position offers competitive salary, performance-related bonus, flexible working hours, and various benefits such as annual leave, duvet days, birthday off, training days, gaming event opportunities, free game codes, bike2work scheme, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, sick pay, pension, private healthcare, remote therapy service, eye tests, and a great office culture.

Requirements

• Experience in maintaining all aspects of the general ledger
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior management, suppliers and clients
• Strong organizational skills to manage payment runs and billing schedules
• Detail-oriented to ensure accurate maintenance of ledgers
• Experience with accounting software such as Xero
• Experiencing in supporting the year-end reporting process and liaising with external auditors

Responsibilities

• Maintain all aspects of accounts receivable and payable ledgers and ensure accurate and timely postings
• Execute month-end reporting tasks, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and management accounts package preparation
• General ledger accounting for all group companies, including fixed assets, payroll control accounts, routine monthly accruals and prepayments
• Preparation of quarterly VAT returns
• Contribute to the preparation of monthly forecasts, annual budgets, and weekly cash flow forecasting
• Preparation of and support for the statutory account and Financial statements & annual statutory accounts audit

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience presenting financials to internal and external stakeholders
• Experience with the implementation and roll out of new processes such as expense management software (Pleo/Spendesk/Moss)
• Ability for ad hoc travel to London HQ for Finance team meetings

Benefits

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• Performance related bonus
• Bi-annual salary reviews based on your performance
• Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm (No weekends, No overtime, No Crunch!)
• Opportunity to work from home (UK only), out of our Brighton office, or hybrid
• 21 days annual leave + 9 Bank Holidays, which includes our very own FuturLab Bank Holiday!
• 2 Duvet Days. (No questions asked)
• Extra day off for your birthday
• Studio closure over the Christmas period
• 5 paid training and 2 paid volunteer days per year to work on your personal development
• Opportunities to attend and speak at gaming events/conferences
• Free MS Game Pass or PS+ subscription
• Free game codes, game swag and merchandise
• Bike2work scheme
• Enhanced Maternity - 9 months full pay (statutory benefit topped up by FL)
• Paternity leave - 8 weeks full pay
• Enhanced Sick Pay
• Enhanced Pension
• Private Healthcare, includes dental and optical cover
• Remote therapy service through Spill -8 x 50-minute virtual sessions over 6 months whenever you need them. Unlimited ‘ask a therapist’ text questions
• Eye tests & standard glasses for display work
• Amazing offices with a great culture. E.g. Regular social activities, Free fresh fruit, Free iced treats in the Summer and Free locally roasted, Small Batch Coffee and Speciality Teas!