Management Accountant, Moonbug Entertainment
Office located in Camden Town, London
Entertainment company for kids
Job no longer available
Entertainment company for kids
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Camden Town, London
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create shows that kids & parents love.
Role
Who you are
- A background in licensing and merchandising revenue would be beneficial to be a success in this role
- Familiarity in managing the booking of royalty accruals, advances and guarantee shortfalls as well as invoicing and payments direct with licensees in order to accurate report revenues
- To thrive, you will have a flexible, can-do mindset, always looking at how to improve processes and do more with less to improve the speed and accuracy of revenue transactions
- A background in media would help, but more important is the ability to deal with ambiguity, and a truly fast paced environment
- Experience working within a fast growth business environment, and ability to prioritise tasks in a fast moving & dynamic environment
- A solid understanding and experience with deferred and accrued revenue and cost accounting
- Experience collaborating with professionals of all levels, from junior team members to senior management
- Team player when needed, able to understand the bigger picture and how Finance’s inputs and outputs can affect the business
- Proactive and hands-on achiever, with good attention to detail
- Advanced Excel skills required
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working with USGAAP as well as UKGAAP would be a bonus
- Experience working with NetSuite would be a bonus
- Salesforce experience would be desirable
- Part Qualified ACCA / CIMA qualified or equivalent - required
- Experience in statutory audit process – required
- Experience in media industry – preferred
What the job involves
- Moonbug is seeking a Management Accountant to support the growing Finance team
- At Moonbug, you will be working with some of the biggest brands in family entertainment; this is an exciting role and opportunity for someone looking to media industry
- You will be responsible for overseeing the Licensing and Merchandising revenue stream for some of the biggest media brands in the world
- Each revenue stream has a different business model and a corresponding, often complex contract so familiarity with commercial contracts would be hugely beneficial and highly regarded
- Business partnering with commercial finance and legal teams in order to accurately recognise revenue on a monthly basis
- In addition to this any understanding of how to deal with WHT would be a plus
- Drive revenue accounting month-end close processes by creating and validating accruals, preparing, and posting journal entries whilst ensuring policy compliance, all to agreed timelines
- Gain a solid understanding of business transactions and accounting flow, whilst identifying and recommending continuous improvement initiatives related to revenue processes, championing any new processes which support the departmental and organisational objectives
- Preparation of balance sheet reconciliations, accrued revenue, deferred revenue, and accrued expenses
- Dotted line management of junior staff member
- Assistance with budgeting and forecasting across revenue streams, as required
- Involvement in the annual audit process for the Group
- Other ad-hoc tasks as and when these arise
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Moonbug Entertainment is a global entertainment company producing fun, engaging and safe content for kids. With bases in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug’s video and audio content is produced with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy and resilience to its young audience.
The company owns properties including Blippi, Little Baby Bum and CoComelon, content that is distributed around the world on platforms including YouTube and Netflix, with the latter’s first series generating over 30B minutes of viewing. Its market presence is strong, with accompanying merchandise sold via Walmart and Amazon, and adjacent offerings such as its CoComelon video game.
Following the acquisition of Singapore-based One Animation, Moonbug has worked to increase its footprint in Asia, as well as making plans to take on South America and the Middle East. A 2023 rebrand has helped to raise the profile and recognisability of the brand as it continues both growth and diversification - for instance by partnering with Audible on a series of family-friendly podcasts.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2020
$120m
SERIES B
Dec 2018
$145m
SERIES A
Total funding: $265m
Company HQ
Camden Town, London, UK
Leadership
John Robson
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously served as Executive Vice President of Base79, an Advisor for MTV Networks and Signet, Vice President & General Manager of Global Content for HTC, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Digital Distribution for Paramount Pictures, and served in various Marketing roles for Sainsbury's.
Rene Rechtman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded NN and CSSE, acting here as Management Consultant. Served as Head of Non-Linear Media for The Walt Disney Company International, President Inter for Maker Studios, CEO for goviral, Vice President and Managing Director for TradeDoubler, Business Development Director for Incentive, and as Account Director for KS Consult.
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