Finance Assistant

Description

About Moonbug Entertainment:

Moonbug is a next generation entertainment company that has cemented itself in the children’s media space. Would you like to be part of the next frontier of inspiring and engaging stories to kids around the world?

Founded in 2018, with primary offices in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug creates, produces and publishes thousands of minutes of video and audio content every month with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy and resilience. We are a fast-paced global company, and have already grown to become the largest kids’ entertainment company on digital platforms in the world. Some of our existing titles include global sensations CoComelon, Blippi, Little Baby Bum, Morphle, Supa Strikas, ARPO and many more which are available in 32 languages and can be viewed on more than 100 platforms globally.

Moonbug is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. Candle is run by leading entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital from funds managed by Blackstone’s flagship private equity business.

This role will report full-time ON-SITE at our London Office.

The Role:

Primary Responsibilities

Moonbug is seeking a Finance Assistant to support the Revenue Team.

This role will be mainly focused (but not limited) to reconciling the Licensing and Merchandising (L&M) revenue/billing transactions and updating the relevant systems, along with providing support to the Reporting and the Commercial teams.

Tasks will include:

Owning the Flowhaven to Netsuite platform reconciliation (will need to be prioritised during the first three months, but it will be an ongoing duty)

• Chase relevant internal/external contacts for missing statements/information
• Assist with the processing of Royalty statements (validating, saving down, tracking, chasing for incomplete/missing ones)
• Assist the Commercial team with the preparation of any L&M true up/down tracker and share with L&M team
• Assist with prompt and accurate month end reporting
• Liaise with Legal and Commercial teams to resolve any royalty statements discrepancies
• Production of ad hoc reports and analysis based on business requirements
• Assist in the statutory audit process including the preparation of supporting schedules as requested by the auditors and resolution of audit queries

Requirements

Skills and Experience:

You are keen, flexible, yet thorough, and ideally have experience working in a dynamic Finance department. You will be articulate, confident, happy to communicate with customers and senior team members and take direction when required.

Other desirable attributes:

• 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
• Able to prioritise in a fast moving, dynamic environment
• Strong Excel and Microsoft office skills

Desirable:

• Salesforce experience
• NetSuite experience

Qualifications

Relevant degree in finance
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