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.
Key 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.
Required qualifications and experience
- 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.
Trainline is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality, and thought.
