Management Accountant - 12 Month FTC

About us

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/sustainability-faqs future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. 

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. 

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. 

Introducing the Trainline Finance Team 👋

Our Finance team plays a critical role in helping Trainline make confident, commercially informed decisions. The team brings together strong financial control, meaningful insight and close business partnering to support performance across the organisation, while ensuring our reporting remains accurate, timely and well governed.

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.

In this role as the Interim Management Accountant, you will...🚄

• 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.

We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍

• 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.

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. 

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! 

We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: 

• 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail 

• ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey 

• 🤝  Travel Together - We're one team 

• ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact 

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/trainline/, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeattrainline/ and Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-Trainline-EI_IE249203.11,20.htm!