A growing Media Company based in the City is looking for an Accounts Assistant to join their Finance Team with the view to train as a Junior Management Accountant.

Responsibilities as the Accounts Assistant:

• Processing of all production invoices ensuring all are correctly authorised in line with signatory limits and correctly coded
• Managing the finance e-mail inbox and actioning all incoming e-mail as appropriate
• Dealing with supplier queries via email and telephone
• Preparing payment runs
• Reconciling supplier accounts and keeping them up to date
• Responsible for managing company credit card account including issuing monthly statements and posting expenses
• Posting nominal ledger journals
• Assisting with reconciling bank accounts, including foreign currencies
• Assisting in the audit preparation
• Other ad-hoc projects as needed

Junior Production Accounting Responsibilities

• Assisting Senior Production Accountant with management of Cost Managers, including assisting with month end reconciliations
• Assisting the production team and Senior Production Accountant with the short-term cash forecasting for productions
• Managing and coding petty cash expenditure whilst ensuring that the journal is accurate and up to date.
• Assisting and reviewing monthly recovery of overhead costs
• Setting up of new production Cost Managers
• Providing cover for Senior Production Accountant as and when needed

Requirements

• Degree Educated (2:1 and above)
• Previous experience of working in a finance role
• Experience of working within a media environment is desirable
• Strong Excel skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Some knowledge of HRMC rules regarding freelance television workers is desirable but not essential
• Experience/knowledge of Sage or similar accounting software
• Ability to handle a high workload and meet tight deadlines
• Requires low levels of supervision to effectively carry out tasks
• Friendly, personable, positive approach
• Keen desire for continued learning and development