Management Accountant: Productions

Trafalgar Entertainment; Woking; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Trafalgar Entertainment is seeking a Management Accountant: Productions in Woking to join the Production Finance team. You will take the lead on delivering timely production accounts, track production budgets, expenditure and commitments, and support month-end processes including cashflow and SPV reporting.

You will build strong relationships with General Managers, handle royalties, investor returns, and tax-related issues, and assist with statutory accounts and audits as needed.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified accountant with production accounting experience.
• Experience with financial software and Excel on a day-to-day basis.

Responsibilities

• Leads on the delivery of accurate and timely production accounts on a weekly basis.
• Main point of contact for General Managers regarding financial queries.
• Responsible for royalties, investor returns, petty cash, and credit cards.
• Contributes to fortnightly cashflow forecasts and SPV forecasts.
• Supports submission of SPV statutory accounts and timely theatre tax relief.
• Assists monthly management accounts, budget and re-forecasting.
• Provides tax guidance relevant to productions.

Skills

Part-qualified accountant

Production accounting experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Financial software

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Job reference REQ01332 Date posted 11/09/2026 Application closing date 25/09/2026 Location Woking Salary £42,000 Package Blank Contractual hours 40 Basis Full time Job category/type Finance Attachments Blank

Management Accountant: Productions

ABOUT TRAFALGAR ENTERTAINMENT

Founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire in 2017, Trafalgar Entertainment is an award-winning global live-entertainment business, producing plays and musicians, theatre and venue ownership and operations, live music and comedy, events and hospitality, Performing Arts education, ticketing, the distribution and filming of event cinema and TV live-streaming innovative content through Trafalgar Releasing Ltd (from David Tennant in Macbeth to Taylor Swift).

Trafalgar Entertainment is home to Trafalgar Theatres (with 23 venues in the UK, Sydney, London, and across the UK), including four London Theatres - Trafalgar Theatre, The Bridge Theatre, The Lightroom King's Cross and the new British Airways Theatre, Olympia.

We are passionate about entertainment, audiences, and the live experience and we valueCreativity, Collaboration, ExcellenceandRespect.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

The Management Accountant: Productions plays a key part in the effective functioning of the Production Finance team in providing support to the Productions department.

The role takes the lead on the delivery of timely and accurate production accounts in order to track the performance of productions and assist with internal decision-making. Through this, the Management Accountant: Productions forms a close relationship with the General Managers and has a detailed knowledge of production budgets, expenditure and financial commitments.

The role contributes to the month-end process including production fee income and other in-month movements. The role also contributes to the maintenance of consolidated cashflow forecasts through their detailed working knowledge of the productions they are responsible for.

The role also contributes to statutory accounts and audit including the SPVs and group level.

The Management Accountant: Productions performs other tasks required to ensure the productions meet their financial commitments including royalty calculations and payment, investor returns and petty cash/ payment card management.

The Management Accountant: Productions will complete other tasks as directed by the Senior Finance Manager: Productions and the Head of Production Finance in order to facilitate the smooth running of the Production Finance department and meet the needs of relevant stakeholder needs. This will involve providing holiday cover as necessary.

ABOUT YOU

You will be a part-qualified accountant with experience of production accounting. You will have excellent attention to detail and a technical knowledge of how production accounts operate. You will be able to form strong relationships with non-finance stakeholders, working with them to produce clear and accurate information.

You will have experience of working with financial software and Microsoft Excel on a day-to-day basis and will be comfortable learning new systems and ways of working. You will contribute to projects regarding process improvements, considering different perspectives.

You will have the ability to report to senor stakeholders, providing a clear picture of progress and conclusions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads on the delivery of accurate and timely production accounts on a weekly basis.
• Main point of contact for relevant General Managers regarding any financial queries.
• Responsible for other production related tasks including royalties, investor returns, petty cash, and credit cards.
• Contributes to fortnightly cashflow forecasts as well as individual cashflow forecasts for each SPV.
• Contributes to the submission of SPV statutory accounts and the timely receipt of theatre tax relief as well as group accounts and audit.
• Contribute to the creation of monthly management accounts as well as the budget and re-forecasting process.
• As required, contribute to process improvement projects.
• Provide advice on tax related issues relevant to productions.

PERFORMANCE MEASURES

• Produces accurate and timely production accounts.
• Builds a strong working relationship with their stakeholders.
• Oversees timely investor returns and royalty payments.
• Oversees appropriate administration of petty cash and credit card and ensures these transactions are appropriately recorded in management accounts.
• Contributes to accurate and up to date cashflow forecasts as well as accurate management accounts.
• Through the production of accurate and timely production accounts, facilitates the timely receipt of theatre tax relief.
• Holds a good understanding of tax and compliance issues relevant to productions and applies this on a day-to-day basis.

Trafalgar Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from people in groups where we are under-represented, for example people with disabilities, from minority ethnic groups, older returners and people who are neurodivergent.

We are curious, courageous, and ambitious, empowering people to challenge and innovate in pursuit of excellence.