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Premier League Productions are looking for a finance assistant to provide financial and accounting assistance to the production team - dealing with all matters that arise during the course of production and to provide regular “final cost” information to Heads of Production. This is a “sleeves up” role for someone who enjoys getting fully involved in a role and working as part of a busy team. If you’re interested in progressing your career in finance within sports production and have an interest in or are pursuing an accountancy qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA), this could be the role for you!
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
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
Required Knowledge and Experience
- Must be numerate and able to organise and deal with multiple tasks and determine priorities.
- Must be able to work without close supervision and have the initiative to deal with problems as they arise or refer them to supervisors for further investigation
Required Skills and Abilities
- Proficient in Microsoft packages specifically Excel
- Previous experience in an accounting / finance environment
- Mathematically competent
Qualifications and Training
- Minimum of A-level education or equivalent
- Studying for a recognised accounting qualification
- Knowledge of the television programme production business
- Knowledge of the SAP accounting system
Aptitudes
- Must be flexible and adaptable and prepared to work as part of a team and occasionally, irregular hours
- Organised with an ability to prioritise
- Good verbal and written communications skills
- Proven experience of working as part of a large team
- Excellent attention to detail skills
Working Conditions
- This is a permanent full-time role based at Stockley Park, Uxbridge
- Working hours are average 40 hours per week
- Free onsite parking available
Premier League Productions (PLP)
Premier League Productions (PLP) are proud to be the production partner to the most watched football league in the world. Globally, we broadcast to 190 out of 193 UN member states, serve over 100 broadcast partners and our work is available to 704million homes. Our wide array of high-quality output includes live matches, digital content, studio shows, promos and magazine programming, all delivered across multiple platforms.
