Management Accountant

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Account Management

Job Summary

Job Description

SEGA is seeking a Management Accountant for its Finance Department, based at their HQ in Chiswick, West London. This role will provide key support to the Assistant UK Financial Controller and the wider Finance team, covering both Financial and Management Accounting. The Management Accountant will be instrumental in the smooth running of month-end processes, identifying and implementing efficiency improvements. The position requires excellent technical accounting skills and a comprehensive understanding of the P&L and Balance Sheet, offering an opportunity for professional growth within SEGA's finance function.
Must have:
  • Part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT)
  • Minimum 3 years experience in a finance role
  • Extensive experience with month-end, management accounts, and financial reporting
  • Strong stakeholder management experience
Perks:
  • Competitive holiday allowance with office closure over Christmas and New Year
  • Maternity and paternity breaks
  • Flexibility with core hours
  • Comprehensive relocation package including immigration & visa support
  • Private medical and dental insurance
  • Life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover
  • Free health care screening
  • Employer pension up to 7% of base salary
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • Access to learning and development platform with online courses and onsite training
  • Staff-led groups (Diversity and Inclusion, wellbeing, social committee)
  • Season ticket travel loans
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • New car salary sacrifice scheme
  • Personal charitable donations through payroll giving
  • Free games and merchandise
  • Access to extensive games library
  • Free breakfast in office daily
  • Fresh fruit and ice creams in summer
  • Wellbeing support with employee assistance programme
  • Access to external professionals
  • In-house heavily subsidized massage therapy
  • Yoga and 5-aside football
  • Discounts for home technology, travel insurance, corporate gym membership, cinema tickets, holidays, trips out, and retail vouchers
  • Company offsites with team building, socials, and family events

Job Details

Management Accountant
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
BASED AT SEGA HQ IN CHISWICK
UK FINANCIAL CONTROLLER
 
A BIT ABOUT SEGA

At the heart of SEGA is our Publishing team based in West London, where we help the studios bring their creative vision to life. Here we have a hardworking bunch of people spanning Tech, Sales, Marketing, Finance, QA and more. 
 
Together, we drive the continued success and evolution of our Western business through living our company values of always collaborating, being entrepreneurial in spirit, having a winning mentality and focusing on uncompromising quality.
 
At SEGA, we have a truly global, diverse team home to 30+ nationalities with shared values and an empowering, inclusive, people-centric culture; The combination of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, self-expression, and talent that our people invest in their work allows us to create great games for our communities and achieve our mission of collectively entertaining the world with creative and innovative experiences, one community at a time.

We believe that making the best games relies on having the best people, so we make sure that we look after ours.
 
People are our most valuable asset, so we are constantly investing in our people through a leading benefits package, flexible working and our community-focussed, people-centric culture. 
 
OUR APPROACH TO HYBRID WORKING

After over 2 years fully working from home, with successful remote onboarding processes, digital-first communication channels and ongoing staff support, we are now committed to hybrid working with the goal to create a new flexible approach to working at SEGA with a combination of home working and office working, striving to strike the right balance of business, team and individual needs.

As a hybrid working organisation we want to capture the benefits of working from home with flexibility and focussed work and equally we take pride in our brand and our heritage with our office being at the heart of our culture and a destination for collaborative working, creativity, and a sense of community. 

On average we are currently seeing our staff in the office a couple of days a week and will continually monitor and evolve our ways of working with open communication. 
 
PEOPLE-CENTRIC CULTURE

Think of us as a big global company with the resources to match, coupled with a place where everyone knows each other on a first-name basis, working together to create innovative experiences, one community at a time.  SEGA is a place where staff have a voice which is integral to our success as a business. Our entrepreneurial spirit shows up in our ideas and we are always collaborating with a winning mindset with inclusive, passionate people that are empowered to educate, inform, and build awareness. 
 
To support a culture, we are proud of we have:
 
•    Thriving staff-led Diversity and Inclusion groups empowered to educate and inspire our people 
•    Staff-led social committee engagement initiatives to keep everyone entertained
•    A Japanese language and cultural group
•    Dedication to the wellbeing of our people with flexible working hours and location, a dedicated staff-led mental health group, internal, qualified mental health first aiders, family-friendly policies, and a comprehensive range of support mechanisms for access to help from a range of professionals 
•    Monthly hands all, "ask me anything" meetings for transparency and trust with our leadership team
•    Collaborative, green (we love our plants) and social workspace with anything from pool tables, a gaming area and mini golf to a massage room and fitness area
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Check out our Careers website to find out why we are a workplace you’ll never want to leave!

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Management Accountant will be a wide-ranging position within the Finance Department at SEGA. The role will provide key direct support to the Assistant UK Financial Controller and the wider Finance team, and cover areas of both Financial and Management Accounting. 
The Management Accountant will play a vital role in the smooth running of the month end processes, including suggesting and implementing process and efficiency improvements together with the Assistant UK Financial Controller. The position requires excellent technical accounting skills and knowledge across the full P&L and Balance Sheet and will allow the successful candidate to gain further experience within the SEGA finance function as they grow into the position. 
 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 
 
•    Full responsibility of the group intercompany reconciliation and reporting processes including CMS deposits
•    Manage the intercompany recharge process and accounts
•    Manage the VGEC B2B invoicing
•    Preparation and submission of Group Reporting (SSHD) Packs for the UK Entities
•    Oversight of the monthly UK Marketing spend and forecast (Getsuji), ensuring recognition of the costs are in following with the applicable accounting standards
•    Posting bank entries, review and signing of the monthly bank reconciliations 
•    Responsible for month end journals for these areas including VAT reallocations between studios monthly
•    Involvement in both the year end group audit and the statutory accounts audit process
•    Manage the preparation and submission of the National Statistics information/ other annual ad-hoc compliance requirements
•    Process control and improvement
 
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

•    Part Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT)
•    Minimum three-years experience in a finance role
•    Extensive experience with month end, management accounts and financial reporting
•    Strong stakeholder management experience
 
COMPANY OVERVIEW  

SEGA has always been synonymous with great games, a rich arcade heritage, huge brand recognition and determination to set new standards in interactive entertainment.
SEGA is one of the leading interactive entertainment companies in the world, with our European HQ based in West London and our seven development studios spanning the UK, Bulgaria, France, and Canada. Known for quality and creativity above all else, our studios include Sports Interactive, HARDlight, Amplitude Studios, Two Point Studios, The Creative Assembly and Relic Entertainment.
 
Our studios turn out some of the bestselling and award-winning titles in the video games industry such as Total War™, Company of Heroes, Football Manager™ and Sonic the Hedgehog™.
 
Our leading benefits package
•    Competitive holiday allowance with full office closure over the Christmas and New Year period and all UK Bank holidays, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours
•    Comprehensive relocation package for you and your dependents including immigration & visa support
•    Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
•    Employer pension of up to 7% of base salary
•    Annual bonus scheme that allows you to share SEGA’s success
•    Full access to our learning and development platform with thousands of online courses, onsite training, and opportunities for personalised training support for your own development
•    Opportunity to join our range of staff-led groups across including several Diversity and Inclusion groups, wellbeing, and our social committee
•    Season ticket travel loans, cycle to work scheme and new car salary sacrifice scheme
•    Personal charitable donations through payroll giving scheme
•    Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
•    Free breakfast in the office every day, fresh fruit, and ice creams in the summer
•    Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme and access to external professionals
•    In-house heavily subsidised massage therapy
•    A range of activities including in-house yoga and 5 aside football 
•    Discounts for home technology, travel insurance, corporate gym membership, cinema tickets, holidays, trips out and retail vouchers
•    The best company offsites with team building, socials, and family events 
 
Check out our Careers website to find out why we are a workplace you’ll never want to leave! 
 
Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At SEGA, we celebrate diversity and embrace the full spectrum of humanity, believing in a diverse, inclusive and equitable world in which everyone feels valued and respected regardless of what they look like or where they come from; Whether you’re a prospective employee or a full-time member of staff, we want you to feel involved in all aspects of our work and to have amazing opportunities during your time with us –regardless of your background.  We welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.

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