Management Accountant

We are seeking a Management Accountant to join our Finance team at Trainline. As a Management Accountant, you will be a vital part of the team, owning financial reporting and control across a portfolio of Group overhead cost areas including Marketing and Corporate Functions.

The Finance team at Trainline is the engine behind sound financial decision-making, providing the insight, rigour, and commercial challenge that keeps the business on course. You will work closely with teams across the organisation to translate numbers into clear, actionable narratives - supporting everything from day-to-day cost management to long-term strategic planning.

As a Management Accountant, you will:

• Own monthly reporting and analysis for your designated overhead cost areas, delivering insightful commentary on variances, risks, and opportunities against budget and forecast
• Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to budget holders and senior stakeholders across Marketing and Corporate Functions
• Take ownership of your balance sheet areas, including accruals, prepayments, month-end journals, and reconciliations
• Play an active role in annual budget, quarterly forecast, and reforecast cycles
• Partner closely with FP&A and Financial Control to ensure consistency and integrity across management reporting, statutory reporting, and forecasting outputs
• Drive continuous improvement across Finance processes, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, and enhance reporting, controls, and financial insight
• Support business cases, investment appraisals, and ad hoc financial analysis
• Coach and support junior team members

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), combined with well-rounded experience in management accounting, month-end reporting, and balance sheet control
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret complex financial data and present it clearly and meaningfully to both finance and non-finance audiences
• A commercially curious mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A proactive, ownership-driven approach
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large datasets and finance systems
• The ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Ideally, some experience mentoring or supporting junior colleagues

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.