Management Accountant - Production

About Moonbug Entertainment

Thank you for considering the Management Accountant role with Moonbug Entertainment, Moonbug is 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 You Tube 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.

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

We are looking for an experienced Production Accountant to join our London‑based finance team. This role combines hands‑on production accounting across our slate of media productions with broader management accounting responsibilities at studio level.

You will support the Head of Studio Finance (HoSF) with monthly reporting, oversee complex Work‑in‑Progress (WIP) reconciliations across multiple legal entities.

A key focus of the role is ensuring the integrity of financial data between our studio production finance system (Smart Accounting) and our group ERP system (Net Suite). You will own the reconciliation process between the two systems, ensuring that production‑level bookkeeping flows accurately and completely into group reporting.

This role suits someone who is comfortable operating at both the detail level of a busy production office and the consolidated view required by group finance.

Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Support the HoSF with consolidating monthly figures, variance analysis, and commentary for the senior leadership reporting pack.
• Report Smart Accounting monthly Trial Balances (TBs) to the Financial Controller – Management Accounts, and actively resolve queries.
• Report on the latest values of WIP, Banked Content, and Capex, highlighting variances against budgets and re‑forecasts.
• Assist with cash flow reporting requirements for the Studio team, liaising with the Head of Treasury to support short‑term forecasting across the group.
• Deliver monthly bank transaction reports to the Head of Treasury.

Production & Asset Accounting (WIP/Capitalisation)

• Manage the end‑to‑end accounting flow for content assets: calculate and post monthly journals transitioning costs from WIP Capex based on the latest Estimated Final Cost (EFC) data.
• Reconcile and maintain alignment between Net Suite and Smart Accounting for three distinct WIP accounts:
  Originals, Brand, Core, and Prod Ops/Loco.
• Monitor delivery schedules, content uploads, and banked assets to ensure accurate timing of capitalisation.
• Execute WIP write‑offs in Net Suite, coordinating with the Studio Finance and Development teams to identify and finalise cancelled projects/sub‑projects.
• Track and reconcile travel and entertainment (T&E) expenses between expense platforms and Smart Accounting, ensuring expenses recorded are complete and correctly coded.
• Work with the HoSF across the allocation of central overheads and desk charges applied to production projects WIP / Capex.

Financial Controls & Intercompany Reconciliations

• Oversee control accounts, monthly bank reconciliations, and VAT reporting.
• Manage the reconciliation and sweeping of intercompany costs between UK and US entities (MELto/fromMB Studios /…