Management Accountant

Kadmos

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY We are seeking a detail-oriented, hands-on Management Accountant to oversea the full spectrum of finance operations across multiple entities, including those under FCA regulation. Working within a fast-paced dynamic environment with a small team, you will play a key role across month-end close, management reporting, FP&A, statutory reporting under IFRS, audit preparation, and business partnering. This is a broad role offering significant exposure and the opportunity to make a real impact as we scale. This is a hands on role suited to someone who enjoys operating across both technical accounting and commercial finance in a high growth environment. WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING Statutory Compliance * Prepare consolidated statutory financial statements in accordance with IFRS. * Prepare tax computations for UK and German entities. * Support regulatory reporting and compliance activities, including safeguarding reconciliation. * Coordinate with internal and external auditors to ensure timely delivery of audit requirements. Financial Reporting & Accounting * Own day-to-day accounting activities and support the broader finance function including AP and GL maintenance within the ERP. * Prepare bank reconciliations in multiple currencies. * Lead month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting. * Reconcile intercompany transactions and prepare monthly consolidated management accounts for the UK and German entities. * Prepare monthly reporting packs for submission to parent company, NYK. Treasury and cash management * Forecast weekly payment obligations and short-term cash requirements.. * Partner with treasurer of funds required to maintain healthy liquidity levels. Financial Planning & Analysis * Support the budgeting and forecasting process across the group. * Work with various stakeholders and large data sets to generate business insights. * Monitor key KPIs and financial metrics, ensuring clear visibility of performance. * Assist in preparing management packs for board presentations. YOUR PROFILE Essential * Qualified or part qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA). * 4+ years’ experience within a finance function. * Strong understanding of statutory IFRS reporting, (including IFRS 10, 15, 16 & 18). * Hands-on experience with multi-entity and multi-currency group consolidations. * Excellent Excel skills and experience with accounting systems. * Ability to communicate financial and regulatory matters clearly to non-finance stakeholders. * Be willing to take on ad-hoc tasks and develop into other areas within finance. * Proactive, problem-solving mindset with a can-do attitude. Desirable * Experience working with international entities, particularly German subsidiaries is advantageous * Previously worked for a regulated business. WHY US * 🌱 Opportunity to work in a company with direct social impact * 💰 Competitive compensation * 🇺🇦 Open & International environment * 🏛️ Fantastic locations in the heart of Berlin & London * 🤹‍♂️ Flexible WFH policy * 🥳 Regular team events * 🥘 Free lunch at the office in Berlin ABOUT THE COMPANY Kadmos is on an ambitious mission to revolutionise salary payments to migrant workers. The Berlin-based startup was founded in 2021 by MIT graduates Justus Schmueser and Sasha Makarovych to bring fintech, low margins, and transparent FX to industries riddled with opaque mark-ups, kickbacks, and physical cash transactions. Backed by renowned VCs Addition and Atlantic Labs, Kadmos has raised more than $39 million since 2021. The company intends to use the funding for expanding across industries and further accelerating product development. For more information, visit https://www.kadmos.io/

Trainline

About us We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.  Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄  Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.  Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.  Introducing the Trainline Finance Team 👋 Our Finance team plays a critical role in helping Trainline make confident, commercially informed decisions. The team brings together strong financial control, meaningful insight and close business partnering to support performance across the organisation, while ensuring our reporting remains accurate, timely and well governed. As a Management Accountant, you will support financial management, reporting and planning across key business areas. You will work closely with Finance leadership, FP&A, Commercial teams and operational stakeholders to provide clear analysis, challenge assumptions, strengthen controls and identify opportunities to improve how Finance works. In this role as the Interim Management Accountant, you will...🚄 * Own monthly reporting and analysis for designated business areas, providing clear commentary on performance against budget and forecast, including key variances, risks and opportunities. * Act as a trusted Finance partner to stakeholders across the business, supporting decision-making through accurate reporting, commercial insight and constructive challenge. * Build a strong understanding of business activities, cost drivers, contractual commitments and commercial arrangements to provide informed financial guidance. * Prepare and review month-end journals, supporting working papers, accruals, prepayments, provisions and balance sheet reconciliations to support accurate reporting and strong financial control. * Assess the accounting treatment of commercial arrangements, supplier contracts and new business activities, ensuring alignment with accounting standards and company policies. * Play an active role in budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting processes, working with stakeholders to develop robust and realistic financial plans. * Partner with FP&A and Financial Control teams to support consistency between management reporting, statutory reporting and forecasting outputs. * Drive continuous improvement across Finance processes, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate reporting, controls and ways of working. We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍 * A recognised accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent experience. * Experience in management accounting, month-end reporting, budgeting, forecasting and balance sheet control. * Strong technical accounting knowledge, with the ability to apply judgement to commercial arrangements, contracts and real business scenarios. * The ability to interpret financial information clearly and share insight with both finance and non-finance audiences. * Strong commercial awareness, with confidence partnering with stakeholders to support performance and decision-making. * A thoughtful and organised approach, with the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail. * Confidence working with Excel, large datasets and finance systems to produce accurate analysis and reporting. * Ideally, experience supporting process improvements, automation initiatives or coaching junior colleagues. More information: Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.  We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!  We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy. Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:  * 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail  * ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey  * 🤝  Travel Together - We're one team  * ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact  We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated. Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!

NextEnergy Group

THE ROLE We're seeking a Management Accountant, preferably based in the UK (London) and fluent in English (other languages such as Italian or Spanish would be a plus). You will support in managing Group-owned fund entities end to end – accounting is currently outsourced but can be in-housed in the future and be part of the scope of your role.  KEY RESPONSIBILITIES This will be an integral role in the Group Finance team with the following responsibilities: * Review Quarterly Management Accounts from external administrators * Review loan workings on quarterly basis * Review Quarterly Capital Account Statements from external administrators * Calculation of both monthly and quarterly inter-group invoicing in line with transfer pricing guidelines * Management of the year-end Financial Statements for all corporate fund entities * Manipulate and upload corporate fund entities data into NetSuite (Accounting software) * Ad-hoc direct bookkeeping in NetSuite * Daily collaboration and communication with outsourced administrators and various third-party providers * Review the information provided by the outsourced provider * Assist in consolidating the fund entities * Assist in improving month end close process and management * Manage payment and approvals for corporate fund entities * Manage monthly cashflow forecasting for corporate fund entities including CapAd calculations performed * Manage monthly cash sweeping mechanism for corporate fund entities * Maintenance of monthly cash concentration loan interest file * Manage payment requests for corporate fund entities * Review and approve quarterly Notices; GPS/Rebate workings and Equalisation workings in collaboration with Fund Team * Maintain invoice register and bank reconciliations for fund entities * Maintain shared files * Assist with co-sec activities and loan documentation between group entities * Assist with FCA reporting throughout the year * Track fund fees and rebate in the summary workbook * Provide a degree of control over fund commitments * Ad hoc activities as required by group finance SKILLS & COMPETENCIES To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate: * Time management & prioritization skills - things can get a little hectic, so the ability to effectively manage yourself and your workload is critical * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (in English or/and other European languages) - you must be able to organize your thoughts in a way that others find clear and compelling. You will be expected to together well-written, grammatically correct emails and other communications. When communicating verbally – whether over the phone, on video calls, in person or in meetings – you will need to be articulate, warm and engaging * Flexibility - being an effective team player means being flexible in your approach and open to getting involved with new things, even if they are not spelt out in your job description * Intellectual Curiosity – we are looking for someone who is truly interested in our profession and has the intellectual curiosity to delve deep into topics and bring fresh ideas to the team * IT Literacy - you need to be comfortable with IT systems and working with data (you should have at least intermediate-level excel) * Delivery focus – it may sound obvious, but the ability to proactively churn through work at pace and deliver quality outputs really matters * Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills * Passion for our mission ‘to generate a more sustainable future by leading the transition to clean energy * Our values: be a leader, build trust, be responsible, be innovative and ‘bring your alpha’. EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS  * Fully qualified ACCA/ACA/CIMA or equivalent * 3-5 years’ experience * The right to work in the UK. * Knowledge of private equity fund structures would be a plus WHAT WE OFFER * A busy role in a supportive team, with plenty of opportunities to learn * International scope – we operate in over 8 countries * Hybrid working – we will need you in the central London (Mayfair) office at least twice a week, but you will normally be able to work remotely for the remainder of the week. You might be required to come more often during the initial onboarding period. * 30 days’ holiday per year (3 of which are taken during the festive shutdown in December) * Private pension * BUPA Healthcare for you and qualifying dependents * Cycle to work and electric vehicle leasing schemes * Annual discretionary bonus. HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in this opportunity, please follow the link to apply. If you have been shortlisted for the next stage, we will be in contact within 14 days. By selecting “Apply” or sending us your CV, you indicate you have read and acknowledged NextEnergy Group’s Candidate Privacy Notice. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION Our approach to diversity and inclusion is a natural extension of our values. Our entrepreneurial culture inspires us to try new things, be open to different viewpoints and be bold. Our Group is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of connectedness that values difference and gives space for individual expression. The collective sum of our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent and hard work form the bedrock of who we are and who we aspire to be. We are committed to equal employment and advancement opportunity irrespective of race, color, ancestry, social background, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity. ABOUT US NextEnergy Group was founded in 2007 to become a leading market participant in the international solar sector.  Since its inception, it has been active in the development, construction, and ownership of solar assets across multiple jurisdictions.  NextEnergy Group operates via its three business units: NextEnergy Capital (Investment Management), WiseEnergy (Operating Asset Management), and Starlight (Asset Development). NextEnergy Capital manages the Group's investment activities and has invested in over 520 solar plants, exceeding 2GW in capacity across its institutional funds. * NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF): Listed on the London Stock Exchange, NESF manages 102 solar and energy storage assets in the UK and Italy, with a total installed capacity of 983MW and a gross asset value of £1,014m. * NextPower II (NPII): A private fund of 105 solar plants (149MW) focused on Italy, successfully divested in January 2022, delivering net IRRs exceeding its 10-12% target. * NextPower III ESG (NPIII ESG): A private fund targeting solar infrastructure in OECD countries (e.g., US, Spain, Italy), with $896m raised, exceeding its $750m target. * NextPower UK ESG (NPUK ESG): A private fund dedicated to new-build solar plants in the UK, with ~£600m raised. * NextPower V ESG (NPV ESG): A private OECD solar fund investing in solar and adjacent technologies like battery storage. To date, it has raised $745m, targeting $1.5bn ($2bn ceiling). WiseEnergy® is NextEnergy Group’s operating asset manager.  WiseEnergy is a leading specialist operating asset manager in the solar sector.  Since its founding, WiseEnergy has provided solar asset management, monitoring, technical due diligence and under construction services to over 1,500 utility-scale solar power plants with an installed total capacity in excess of 3.4 GW.  WiseEnergy clients comprise leading banks and equity financiers in the energy and infrastructure sector.  Starlight is NextEnergy Group’s development company that is active in the development phase of solar projects.  It has developed over 100 utility-scale projects internationally and continues to progress a large pipeline of c.10GW of both green and brownfield project developments across global geographies. NextSTEP is the venture capital fund of NextEnergy Group, dedicated to investing in innovative startups in the field of environmental sustainability. The fund primarily focuses on investments in Italy and the United Kingdom but also extends its reach to the rest of Europe and the United States, targeting startups in the pre-seed and seed stages. NextSTEP pays particular attention to emerging entities from incubators, startup accelerators, universities, and research centers, supporting projects that address global challenges in crucial areas such as Climate Change, Energy Transition, CO2 Capture and Sequestration, Circular Economy, Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Fashion, Waste Management, Water and much more. NextEnergy Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 2016 by the NextEnergy Group that operates internationally and whose mission is to proactively participate in the global effort to reduce carbon emissions by providing clean energy sources in regions where they are not yet available and thereby contributing to poverty reduction. As the main sponsor of this foundation, the NextEnergy Group donates at least 5% of its consolidated net profits each year. The NextEnergy Foundation has no overhead costs and therefore 100% of the funds raised go to donations for the various projects. Since 2016, in 8 years of operation the foundation has donated more than £1.2 million, supporting over 30 projects in 27 different countries around the world.