Accountant

Informa Group Plc.; Colchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global publishing company is seeking a detail-oriented Accountant to join their Global Accounting Team in Colchester. This role involves preparing and analyzing financial reports, ensuring balance sheet integrity, and collaborating with team members. The ideal candidate will be part-qualified (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with excellent Excel skills and the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders. The position supports a hybrid working model, requiring a minimum of three in-person days per week.

Benefits

Flexible working culture

25 days annual leave plus additional days

Company funded private medical insurance

Employee assistance program

Share match plan

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Qualifications

• Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines while delivering quality work.
• Solid relationship-building skills with stakeholders.
• Good presentation skills and excellent Excel capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, reconcile, and analyze monthly Management Accounts.
• Provide commentary on variances to budget forecasts.
• Assist in financial analysis and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Help coach and assist junior team members.
• Improve processes and automate tasks where possible.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Stakeholder relationship building

Presentation skills

Excel proficiency

SAP knowledge

Education

Part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

This Accountant role offers you the opportunity to be at the heart of our Global Accounting Team where your expertise will drive timely accurate financial reporting and maintain the highest standards of balance sheet integrity.

You’ll help deliver exceptional value to key business partners and group finance through strategic collaboration, build meaningful relationships with team members and business counterparts and take ownership of critical financial processes that directly impact our success.

We’re looking for a detail‑oriented professional who thrives in a fast‑paced environment committed to excellence in customer service and colleague support. You’ll ensure seamless adherence to company policies while consistently meeting deadlines and exceeding service expectations for our valued Taylor & Francis customers and team members.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face‑to‑face. That’s why we work in‑person with each other or with customers and partners three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces like at conference, you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of our offices to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office locations to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in‑person time in our office in Colchester.

Closing date for applications: 31st October 2025.

What you will be doing

• Prepare, reconcile and analyse where appropriate aspects of the monthly Management Accounts for specific product areas ensuring high quality on time deliverables
• Understand and apply, within working practices, the key drivers that impact the monthly Management Accounting reports
• Carry out a preliminary review of assigned areas providing commentary on variances to budget forecast and prior year by working closely with the FP&A and wider teams
• Assist in the production of financial analysis
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with Balance Sheet Integrity guidelines within the set timeframes
• Publish financial results in the relevant finance system
• Carry out mid‑month duties with the team on a rota system
• Analyse and solve ad‑hoc problems using your knowledge of the business and the systems
• Assist internal and external auditors
• Help to coach and assist more junior members of the team
• Seek to improve process and automate where possible
• Assist with ad‑hoc duties as needed including covering workload in other teams and providing support and cover in times of team absence

Qualifications

• Part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Be able to manage competing priorities and achieving deadlines whilst delivering a high standard of work and supporting the team as and when needed
• Solid at building relationships with stakeholders within and outside of the organisation
• Good presentation skills
• Excellent Excel skills
• SAP knowledge preferred

What we offer in return

• An excellent work / life balance with a fantastic flexible working culture
• Hybrid working arrangements with 2 days per week from home
• 25 days annual leave per year plus an extra day off for your birthday
• 3 additional discretionary days off during the holiday season at the end of the year
• 4 paid volunteering days each year
• Company funded single cover private medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme offering 24/7 well‑being support
• Share Match Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance plus optical and medical care

Training and Professional Development

We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long‑term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

Interview process

Once you have submitted your application we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience and motivation. Following this you will be invited to attend a competency‑based interview either virtually or in person. Typically we’ll then finish the interview process with a final 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.

Policy

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full‑time

Key Skills

Internal Audit, Accounting Tally, General Ledger Accounting, External Audit, Microsoft Excel, PMP, Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis, Payroll, Financial Reconciliation, Financial Statement, Accounting and Finance, ACCA, CPA, Financial Reporting

Experience

Years

Vacancy

1

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non‑merit‑based factor.

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