Junior Management Accountant

Job description

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere. Job Details About the job This role forms a vital part of the Head Office companies’ finance team, contributing to the delivery of high-quality financial reporting and effective management of the group’s holding and treasury entities. The management accountant will support core accounting processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance across all reporting activities. Working closely with Group legal, tax, treasury and the reporting teams, the role helps maintain strong financial controls, supports consolidation and audit processes, and ensures that intercompany transactions are properly recorded and reconciled. This position provides an excellent opportunity to build specialist knowledge in group accounting and treasury operations while playing a key role in maintaining the integrity of financial information at the centre of the organisation. Job Goals Financial Reporting: Prepare timely and accurate financial reports for holding companies and treasury entities, including balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement. Accounting Entries: Prepare accounting entries for holding companies’ activities, including investment transfers, intercompany loan movements, equity contributions, and dividend distributions. Intercompany Coordination: Coordinate with other group companies to resolve intercompany mismatches. Consolidation Support: Support the monthly consolidation process by proposing group consolidation adjustments to the group reporting team. Audit Support: Assist in external and internal audit processes, ensuring a smooth and efficient process and implementation of audit findings and recommendations. Reconciliations: Perform necessary balance sheet reconciliations. Ideal Skills & Capabilities Education/Primary Qualification: Bachelor’s/University degree or similar experience in a related field. Member of a professional accounting body (e.g., CIMA, ACCA, ACA, OROC, OCC, or equivalent). Knowledge and Experience: First experience as an accountant or in an equivalent role. Previous experience with OneStream/Maconomy is a plus. Audit training and industry exposure are advantageous. Advanced Excel skills, including Power Query and Power Pivot. Good knowledge of IFRS and Lux GAAP. Specific Skills: Process-oriented thinking and working style. Proficient in English (written and spoken). Effective communication skills, both written and spoken. Ability to collaborate and build relationships across the business. Comfortable handling key relationships with external finance parties and service providers. Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and effectively, prioritising to meet tight deadlines. What’s in it for you Flexible hybrid working Up to 25 days off, plus your birthday off and two days paid for volunteering Meal card and flexible benefits where you are allocated funds to spend on a variety of benefits such as transport cost, education related and more You’ll be joining our Functions team, right at the centre of our business. Functions is made up of some really important people, like Finance, Legal and our People Teams; all skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere. Please note We are not able to offer visa sponsorship or assist with relocation support for this role. Please ensure you have the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying. Country Portugal Why join Kantar? We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world. And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.