Management accountant, finance

Closing date for applications: 30 September 2025

Salary: £40,000 - £49,000 depending on skills and experience

Bring your accounting skills to a leading independent publisher and support key financial operations, forecasting, and audits as part of a dynamic team.

This role sits within the financial operations team, located at Bloomsbury’s Head Office in Bedford Square, London. The role will report into the finance manager. This is an opportunity to support the ongoing finance transformation and implementation of a robust controls framework.


Responsibilities

• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations to support month-end processes
• Posting month-end entries, with a primary focus on Overhead Costs, while also supporting Fixed Assets and other ad hoc tasks
• Preparing and posting intercompany entries at Group level for month-end
• Producing monthly overhead reports
• Assisting with quarterly forecasting for designated areas
• Providing month-end reporting, commentary, and variance analysis against forecast
• Contributing to the enhancement of the Controls Framework – identifying controls within the Opex team, assisting the Finance Manager, and documenting processes as required
• Supporting external audit processes

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Exam qualifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT)
• Experience of working as a management accountant in a large or compliance finance function
• Ability to deal with complex accounting and make improvements to month end processes
• Good communication skills, verbal and written, and ability to present financial information in a manner that can be understood by all recipients
• Fast and accurate with attention to detail
• Proactive and motivated, able to show initiative and work independently
• Strong technical, analytical and judgement skills
• Ability to be flexible and work across a divisional matrix structure
• Problem solver with a track record of undertaking and delivering projects
• MS Excel (strong)
• Financial systems – (Access Dimensions preferred)
• Focal Point (preferred)
• Biblio (preferred)

Additional information

The role is a full-time permanent position. The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based. Allocated office days for this role are: Monday and Tuesday.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘Apply’ button, detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 30th September 2025. For best results, please use a desktop to apply as some mobile browsers may not fully support the application portal. Bloomsbury reserves the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.


Bloomsbury benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)
• 25 days holiday and 3.5 days Christmas company holiday
• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources.

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.