Assistant Accountant - Media & Football

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Finance Assistant to join a global Production business that specialises in Media & Football. This is the perfect opportunity for someone who loves Football and enjoys getting fully involved in the role and being part of a busy team!

As the Finance Assistant you will be providing accounting support to the production team - including the following:

• Issuing purchase orders as required using the SAP system
• Ensuring that vendor invoices are properly coded, authorized and processed for payment
• Liaising with Accounts Payable on all Payables issues - dealing with vendor enquiries etc
• Requesting new vendor set up via vendor governance
• Supporting corporate finance and production with reconciling expenditure incurred on production credit cards
• Ensuring that all production costs are recharged to the relevant projects each month
• Dealing with T&E expenses for all relevant staff using the SAP system
• Raising Client Invoices using the SOL system
• Completing the monthly update of the actual expenditure for the Production Cost Reports and helping Production Managers to analyse and explain their budget variances
• Dealing with any other ad hoc production related finance matters as required
• Liaising with accounting staff in other departments on all of the above.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Proficient in Microsoft packages specifically Excel
• Previous experience in an accounting/finance environment
• Mathematically competent
• Minimum of A level education or equivalent

Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.