A leading sports and entertainment influencing marketing agency, has an exciting opening for a highly motivated and detail-oriented Commercial Accountant to join their Central London team.
The role will be a hybrid role with a mixture of office and home working.
Reporting into the Business Manager, the successful applicant will work closely with the business Client Teams and the UK Finance Director to support various business functions, streamline operations, and contribute to the overall success of the company.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Billing Management - ensuring the Finance Assistant is raising and billing client invoices in a timely manner, to effectively manage the working capital cycle.
- Parked List Management - reviewing the parked payable invoice list and working with the junior members of the client teams to ensure vendor invoices are processed, and all billable costs are accounted for.
- Purchase Order (PO) Approval - review all related POs, ensuring due diligence is done (checking if vendor agreements are in place, ensuring sufficient budget available on jobs, etc.) before approving.
- Work-In-Progress (WIP) Management - overseeing all WIP, working closely with the Finance Assistants to ensure jobs are reconciled and closed promptly on completion.
- Client Reconciliation - maintain overall responsibility for weekly/monthly client reconciliation reports, ensuring timely information is shared with client leads to inform decision making.
- Debtors - reviewing the debtors report and supporting the Finance Assistants when following-up with client leads to resolve outstanding issues and queries.
- Month-End Revenue Queries - support the Senior Business Manager with any compliance queries during month-end revenue reconciliation.
- P&L Ledger Analysis - Review a selection of P&L ledgers at month-end to ensure that business costs are allocated correctly.
- Accruals / Deferrals - Put together monthly revenue accrual & deferral journals as directed by the Senior Business Manager.
- Ad-hoc Client Team Requests - working with the Finance Assistants to ensure any ad-hoc client team requests are addressed and resolved satisfactorily.
- Process Improvement - be encouraged to share any suggestions to overall process improvement, with a view to improving working efficiency.
- Profitability Reporting - Provide monthly profitability reports, looking at both Client and Departmental profitability.
- Resource Tracking - Assist in bi-weekly consolidation of departmental resource tracker.
REQUIREMENTS
Ideally you will be currently studying towards a professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) along with having a degree in accounting and/or finance, or related field who is a proficient Microsoft Excel user (ability to use SUMIFs, VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, etc.) and has a keen interests in sports & entertainment marketing.
Previous exposure to SAP software would also be an advantage.
THE PACKAGE
In return the client is offering a salary £35,000 - £40,000 + Study support along with some great benefits including:
- Unlimited holiday
- Pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Employee assistance programme
- Wellness Fridays
If this sounds like you then please send us your CV now!
Due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted.