Job Description

About us

Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, Seymour, Gold Key Media and Routes to Retail. We're the UK's leading retail sales, marketing and distribution company working predominantly in the exciting and diverse areas of publishing and home entertainment.


Our key clients include publishers of iconic magazine brands such as Radio Times, Good Housekeeping, TV Choice, Heat, Top Gear, Grazia, Vogue, Slimming World, Cosmopolitan, Empire, National Geographic and 100's more. We also work with major film studios managing their DVD presence within the grocery retail channel and are growing our reach in categories such as books and music with further category expansions on the horizon.


As a Distributor we work closely with UK and International retailers, wholesale, International Distributors and other parts of the supply chain to ensure our client's sales, retail marketing and distribution objectives are met. Through our brand targeting and audience engagement agency Gold Key Media we develop sampling and marketing solutions, and we manage brand placement activities in the events, travel and hospitality sectors across the world.


Frontline Group is owned by two of the world's leading publishing companies, Bauer Media and Immediate Media Company (Hubert Burda Media). This will provide opportunities to grow your career across a number of different businesses and functions including brand marketing, sales, analytics, insight, finance, IT services, supply chain and publishing. We strongly believe in developing our own people and have a great track record of supporting and coaching our colleagues, who have then gone on to grow their career within our business.


Our teams are made up of the most talented and widely respected people in our industry and are seen as the experts in their fields. At the Frontline Group we celebrate our differences and ensure everyone feels welcome, trusted and valued for being their authentic selves.


All our roles offer an informal hybrid working option, combining in-office and remote/home working.


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About the Role

Do you thrive by working with the business, showing initiative, and taking ownership for key deliverables? Do you have experience managing external audit for a complex business, producing consolidated accounts, managing VAT, PSA, and other key financial tasks? Would you enjoy leading and supporting a small team and advising on accounting principles and regulations. If you have great accounting knowledge, enthusiasm for embedding best practice around systems and processes and have excellent attention to detail this role may be for you.

Job Opportunity

We are looking for the right person to join our FDS Finance team in Peterborough on an interim basis until the end of March 2026.


Key parts of your role would be:

Preparation of documentation and management of interim and final external audits and internal audit if applicable. Reporting monthly financial information to the Finance team in Hamburg including detailed trial balances, cashflows, HR and Liquidity reporting Carrying out regular process and control review, including balance sheet reconciliation and review, systems and approval processes Management and development of two direct reports VAT reporting and input into tax calculations Producing the statutory accounts for the group Line management of Financial Accountant and Accounts Assistant

Company Benefits

At the Frontline Group, we offer great development opportunities, enhanced family friendly leave and a range of salary sacrifice flexible benefits which you can select based on your lifestyle; benefit options include private medical insurance, holiday purchase and a tech scheme, to name a few.


On top of that, we also offer:

25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata) Contributory pension scheme Life assurance and income protection Executive coaching and mentoring available to all Everyone has access to our

EPIC

approach to talent development Informal hybrid working 2 paid volunteering days per annum Additional discretionary day and loyalty schemes Confidential Employee Assistance Programme Stuart House, Peterborough - On site gym, parking

Essential Skills

Our successful candidate for the Senior Financial Accountant role is likely to be able to demonstrate the following skills:

5+years' experience of financial accounting processes Strong technical accounting knowledge Demonstrable line management and team development skills Qualified accountant - CIMA/ICAEW/ACCA with 3-5 years PQE or an exceptional QBE Drive to promote a first-time right ethos and seek continuous improvement. Strong insight, numerical and excel skills. * An excellent team player with a can-do attitude.