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Assistant Management Accountant - Live Entertainment - Woking
Premium international live entertainment business passionate about entertainment, audiences, and the live experience are looking for Part Qualified Management Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) studying towards these.
Responsibilities and duties include:
- Prepare the monthly management accounts (full Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and cashflow), variance & commentary
- Prepare the monthly journals for the monthly imagine management accounts, including accruals and prepayments.
- Maintaining the fixed asset register (including sets, costumes and special effects).
- Prepare the monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including bank and all control accounts and reviewing the accruals and prepayments to make sure that these are released correctly in the correct months.
- Assist the Production Management accountant with show reporting - to provide weekly cost reports to the senior management team.
- Assist the Production Management Accountant with the preparation of the annual budgets and forecasts.
- Assist with the year end Audit process for Imagine, responding to audit queries that come in via the EY client portal on a timely basis to deadlines.
- Prepare the annual Theatre Tax Relief (TTR) calculation with back up, ready for submission to the accountants
- Assist with any queries in preparing the annual statutory accounts.
- Managing and developing a purchase ledger/payroll clerk
- Assist the Production Management accountant with updating the financial processes to ensure a tight internal control environment and best practise to reduce financial risk.
- Prepare the weekly 12 week cash report and liaise with the team to ensure that adequate funds are transferred to the bank account to cover all payments.
- Regular liaison with all departments to ensure receipts, expenses and petty cash are being submitted regularly so that the accounts are up to date.
- Assist the assistant accountant with monthly reconciliations of Monzo cards, credit cards and petty cash claims as needed (with more frequent reconciliation required during panto season).
Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
- Part Qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) and studying towards these
- Production accounting experience highly desirable
- Strong Excel skills
- Experience with an accounting system ideally Sage X3 & HMRC payroll.
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
- Dynamic, enthusiastic, self-starter and willing to go the extra distance to make a difference.
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.
