Accounts Assistant

About the Role

CAA Stellar's small, fast-paced finance team is seeking a high-energy Accounts Assistant to support its accounting operations and hit the ground running. The role reports directly to the Financial Controller while working closely alongside the Management Accountant. The successful candidate will take ownership of a varied workload spanning daily transactions through to international compliance, working independently while knowing when to seek support. The position offers broad exposure to different areas of finance, with the opportunity to develop skills and progress towards an Assistant Accountant role in the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Report directly to the Financial Controller to maintain accurate accounts and support team objectives, working closely alongside the Management Accountant as right-hand support for day-to-day operations.
• Team up with the Management Accountant to close month-end books on time.
• Manage daily bank postings and keep bank reconciliations up to date.
• Prepare and post routine journals, including prepayments, accruals, and lease journals, ready for review.
• Prepare trial balances from overseas entities and upload them as journals into SAP.
• Support reconciliation of specific balance sheet accounts, taking ownership of agreed accounts as experience develops.
• Look after intercompany accounts between CAA Stellar and other CAA entities, tracking down mismatches.
• Help pull together data and draft quarterly VAT returns, including running a monthly VAT review.
• Support day-to-day management of ledgers and local compliance requirements for European entities.
• Prepare schedules and appropriate reconciliations, providing general support for the year-end audit.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• AAT Level 3 or equivalent.
• At least 1–2 years' finance/accounts experience, including day-to-day transaction processing and general accounting tasks.
• Experience posting journals, accruals and prepayments, with a basic understanding of management accounts and performance versus budget.
• Experience managing accounts between entities and preparing trial balances for international offices.
• Experience preparing quarterly VAT returns and checking ledger data for coding errors.
• Experience reprocessing bank postings and performing bank reconciliations.
• Confidence with accounting systems/ERPs.
• Excel skills including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs and XLOOKUPs.
• Proactive, self-reliant and high-energy, able to hit the ground running.
• Organised and comfortable working independently while knowing when to seek support.
• Positive, collaborative attitude and willingness to learn and develop within a small finance team.

Preferred Skills

• Ideally studying towards ACCA or CIMA, with ambition to progress.
• European VAT experience (significant plus).
• SAP S/4HANA experience (significant advantage).
• Sports industry background (football club, sports agency or talent business).
• Prior experience working within a football club, sports agency, talent management business or similar fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of the pace, confidentiality and deadlines that come with the industry.

Workplace

• Mayfair office, with an expectation of working in the office three days a week.
• Access to the New Cavendish Street office on an ad hoc basis.

Benefits & Perks

• Opportunity to gain broad exposure to a varied accounting role, develop skills and experience across different areas of finance, and progress towards an Assistant Accountant position.

About the Company

CAA Stellar is a world-leading sports agency and a global leader in football management, managing the careers of hundreds of elite athletes across the UK and internationally.

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