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Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.\nGreat journeys start with Trainline\nWe’re Europe’s leading independent rail platform, helping millions of travellers find and book the best-value rail and coach journeys across our app, website and partner channels.\nOur job is to make the green travel choice the best choice. By building a better train travel experience, we help more people choose rail - creating a positive impact for customers, our business and the planet.\nWe’re a team of more than 1,000 Trainliners from over 50 nationalities, working across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. Now is a brilliant time to join us and help shape the future of travel.\nIntroducing the Trainline Finance Team\nThe 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. We 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 be a vital part of this, owning financial reporting and control across a portfolio of Group overhead cost areas including Marketing and Corporate Functions.\nThis is a role with real breadth and genuine business impact. You will be the go-to finance partner for a range of senior stakeholders and budget holders, helping them understand performance, identify risks and opportunities, and make confident decisions. Working closely with FP&A, Financial Control, and Finance Leadership, you will contribute to both the accuracy of management reporting and the ongoing improvement of Finance processes - while also playing an active role in the development of junior colleagues within the team.\nIn this role as the Management Accountant, you will...\nOwn monthly reporting and analysis for your designated overhead cost areas, delivering insightful commentary on variances, risks, and opportunities against budget and forecast, with outputs prepared to Finance Leadership and Board reporting standards\n\nAct as a trusted Finance Business Partner to budget holders and senior stakeholders across Marketing and Corporate Functions, supporting financial performance, challenging assumptions, and providing clear, timely decision support\n\nTake ownership of your balance sheet areas - including accruals, prepayments, month-end journals, and reconciliations - ensuring completeness, accuracy, and appropriate supporting documentation at all times\n\nPlay an active role in annual budget, quarterly forecast, and reforecast cycles, working collaboratively with stakeholders to build well-considered and robust financial plans\n\nPartner closely with FP&A and Financial Control to ensure consistency and integrity across management reporting, statutory reporting, and forecasting outputs\n\nDrive continuous improvement across Finance processes, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, and enhance reporting, controls, and financial insight\n\nSupport business cases, investment appraisals, and ad hoc financial analysis, helping stakeholders understand their performance picture and make well-informed decisions\n\nCoach and support junior team members, reviewing their work where appropriate and contributing actively to their development and growth\n\nWe’d love to hear from you if you have...\nA professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), combined with well-rounded experience in management accounting, month-end reporting, and balance sheet control\n\nStrong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret complex financial data and present it clearly and meaningfully to both finance and non-finance audiences\n\nA commercially curious mindset - comfortable developing a deep understanding of cost drivers, operational activities, and business priorities to deliver financial insight that genuinely informs decisions\n\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders and constructively challenge assumptions with confidence\n\nA proactive, ownership-driven approach with a demonstrable track record of identifying and implementing process improvements and automation opportunities\n\nStrong Excel skills and comfort working with large datasets and finance systems; experience with FP&A or BI tools would be a helpful bonus\n\nThe ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, bringing strong attention to detail and sound organisational skills throughout\n\nIdeally, some experience mentoring or supporting junior colleagues - though a genuine interest in developing others and contributing to team culture is just as valuable\n\nMore information:\nEnjoy 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.\nWe prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!\nWe're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.\nOur values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:\nThink Big - We're building the future of rail\n\nOwn It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey\n\nTravel Together - We're one team\n\nDo Good - We make a positive impact\n\nWe know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.\nInterested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? 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