Junior Production Accountant

About Moonbug Entertainment:

Thank you for considering the Junior Production Accountant role with Moonbug Entertainment, an award-winning global entertainment company inspiring kids everywhere to laugh, learn and grow. The company is behind some of the biggest kids’ entertainment brands in the world including CoComelon and Blippi. Moonbug believes every child should have access to our entertaining and enriching content, which is why our shows are available on more than 150 video platforms globally including Netflix, Disney+, BBC iPlayer and YouTube Kids. Moonbug is also a global leader in pre-school music and audio experiences, available on 100+ audio platforms globally. Moonbug brands extend far beyond the screen to include streaming music, toys, games, books, live events, and even theme park exhibits.  

Moonbug is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. By bringing together elite talent operating at the intersection of content, community, and commerce, it helps to position leading entertainment businesses for accelerated, sustainable growth in the current market and beyond. 

This role reports onsite in our London office full time. 

📍London, Camden | Office based | Benefits including Free Private Healthcare, Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave, matched 5% pension scheme, free yoga/fitness wellbeing classes, free weekly lunch and Friday drinks @ 4pm ✨

The Role:

Moonbug Entertainment is looking for a Junior Production Accountant as we continue to grow rapidly.  Our Studios business is responsible for the creation and production of all our amazing content whether it be on Youtube, Netflix or on the over 100 other platforms.  We produce content for bespoke “Originals” for partners such as Amazon, Sky and Netflix and create hours of “Core” content for Youtube and many other platforms.   We also create and produce “Third Party Branded” content for other partners where we don’t own the IP. The Junior Production Accountant will be assisting the Head of Studio Finance on all finance matters, including month end reporting. The role is based in Camden, our head office and will work extensively with our LA team where much of our creative team is based.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee processing of invoices and expense claims, to ensure correct coding, allocation to projects and company being invoiced
• Managing the production petty cash process in the UK and US
• Working with HR to ensure freelancers have the correct contracts, and that employees are allocated to the relevant projects
• Improve the controls around approvals of spend, allocation of costs, reporting
• Produce monthly spend reports as required by the Head of Production
• Setting monthly spend and cash forecasts
• Assisting the tax relief/rebate process for the UK and worldwide
• Working with the Production and Commercial teams in costing proposals
• Studying towards Accountancy qualifications

Qualifications and Desired Experience:

• You are keen, flexible, thorough, with several years’ experience working in a dynamic Finance department.
• You will be articulate, confident, happy to communicate with senior leadership and take direction when required.
• Experience gained in a smaller production company, creative sector or start-up experience will be a huge advantage.
• Proactive, self starter, willing to get stuck in
• Attention to detail and being a completer-finisher
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Team player when needed, able to understand the bigger picture and how Finance’s inputs and outputs can affect the business
• Have enthusiasm in dealing with all functional departments and SMT
• Able to prioritise in a fast moving, dynamic environment
• Advanced Excel skills
• Xero experience would be a plus