Finance Manager - Picturehouse

Cineworld Cinemas Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cinema company is seeking a Finance Manager to support the UK Finance team during a period of growth. This role involves managing month-end processes, preparing financial statements, and ensuring accuracy in financial reporting. Ideal candidates will have professional accounting qualifications and a passion for financial excellence.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA) required.
• Experience in auditing and preparing financial statements.
• Strong MS Excel skills for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for month-end accounting journals and ensuring accuracy.
• Prepare reconciliations for balance sheet items.
• Collaborate on year-end financial statements and audits.

Skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

MS Excel skills

Education

ACA/ACCA qualification

Tools

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 + discretionary company bonus

Interview Process:

Screening – call with Talent Acquisition Partner

1st stage – interview with Financial Controller

2nd stage – interview with Financial Controller and VP of Finance

What is the job?

Do you have a passion for bringing numbers to life? Are you ready to take the next step in your career with a global, multibillion-dollar company?

If so, you could be the perfect fit for our Finance Manager role here at Picturehouse. In this position, you will support our Financial Controller and the wider UK Finance team during an exciting period of change, with plenty of opportunities to develop and advance your skills.

What will you be doing?

• You will be responsible for month-end accounting journals, including accruals, prepayments, stock, fixed assets, interest, and intercompany transactions, ensuring accuracy within the required timetable.
• You will prepare key reconciliations for material balance sheet items and review those for non-material balance sheet items.
• You will work closely with the Finance Controller to review monthly trial balances and manage month-end close procedures, including preparing financial results and operating metrics for group reporting purposes.
• You will collaborate with the UK Finance Controller to prepare the year-end consolidated financial statements, addressing technical areas like IFRS 16 and IAS 35, and act as a key point of contact for auditors during the year-end audit.
• You will identify and propose ideas to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the financial accounting function and assist in preparing various financial information for both internal and external purposes.

About you

• You hold a professional accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA) and have experience in auditing and preparing financial statements.
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to manage a wide range of tasks, from administrative to technically challenging work.
• You have strong MS Excel skills for generating insightful analysis from large datasets (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, Power Query).
• You may also have experience with Microsoft Dynamics, though this is preferred rather than essential.
• You will be a great fit, if our values resonate with you:We Create, We Perform, We Inspire.Read more about them here -About us

Who are Picturehouse?

Picturehouse…just a whole load of Cinemas, right? Wrong!

Picturehouse is so much more than screens and popcorn! As part of the Regal Cineworld Group, we are cinemas in the heart of neighbourhoods, a film distributor and home entertainment provider; ingraining ourselves within local communities as social hubs. Each of our venues are unique architecturally, designed to bring local communities joy through extraordinary experiences via the exciting world of film, entertainment and a wide variety of events.

This ethos resonates throughout the company in every aspect possible, whether you are in the Marketing Team, Operations Team or part of the cinema teams that are face to face with our customers; we are all about bringing joy, happiness and unforgettable experiences.

With an office in Leicester Square, London and cinemas countrywide we have a variety of roles that see our people working on either a hybrid or field based/remote basis.

One thing we pride ourselves on at the Regal Cineworld Group is our people and being able to support our people to pursue the career paths they want within the Cineworld & Picturehouse brands. We help YOU grow.Read more about the Cineworld & Picturehouse culture here –Cinema stories

Do you feel like you don’t have all the experience listed but would love to explore a career at Cineworld? Please still [e-mail] understand that confidence gaps and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, and we wouldn’t want this to prevent us from meeting you.