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About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

• Excel
• Large datasets
• Finance systems

Location

• London
• Paris
• Barcelona
• Milan
• Edinburgh
• Madrid

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Work from Abroad

Benefits

• Private healthcare & dental insurance
• Generous work from abroad policy
• 2-for-1 share purchase plans
• EV Scheme
• Extra festive time off
• Excellent family-friendly benefits
• Clear career paths
• Transparent pay bands
• Personal learning budgets
• Regular learning days

About the Company

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

Equal Opportunity

• 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.