Accounts Assistant in City of London

Marc Daniels are working with an exciting global media company looking to hire an Accounts Assistant to join their team. This role will require the individual to commute to their modern offices in Chiswick and Central London. The Accounts Assistant will play a key role in supporting the finance function across its group of entities and live event operations. This is a hands-on position in a fast-paced, project-driven environment, where financial accuracy and timely reporting are critical to supporting both corporate and event delivery teams. You will work closely with the Financial Controller, external advisors, and internal stakeholders across multiple business units, helping ensure financial integrity across a dynamic and growing global events platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the AP inbox, ensuring timely processing of supplier invoices and queries.
• Assist with vendor set-up processes.
• Assist in the reconciliation of payroll, ensuring alignment between payroll outputs and financial records.
• Prepare journals to send to shared service team to post.
• Support the UK financial audit process, including liaising with external auditors.
• Lead on smaller Audits in the EMEA & APAC Region with support from the Financial Controller.
• Collate and organise financial documentation, invoices, and supporting data from multiple entities and event teams.
• Initial preparation of company's financial statements.
• Manage Capex and prepayments of corporate costs, ensuring accurate accounting and amortisation.
• Preparing the group's monthly balance sheet for business review and commentary.
• Ensure monthly recharges from the parent company to subsidiaries are completed accurately, including allocation of shared services, employee benefits, and central costs across the group.
• Assist in reviewing financial data provided by outsourced team for bookkeeping, VAT returns, and tax reconciliations.
• Support the preparation of UK VAT returns, ensuring compliance in a multi-entity, event-driven environment.
• Provide ad hoc support to the Financial Controller, including month-end close, reporting controls, and process improvements.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Part-qualified accountant (ACCA / CIMA / ACA) or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of financial accounting and month-end processes.
• Experience with accounts payable, reconciliations, and intercompany accounting.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Confident communicator, comfortable working across finance, operations, and event teams.
• Proficiency in Excel.

Desirable:

• Experience in events, media, entertainment, or other project-based industries.
• Exposure to audit processes and working with external auditors.
• Experience working with outsourced providers.
• Familiarity with VAT in a multi-entity or international environment.
• Experience with SAP is advantageous.

What you will receive:

• Competitive salary.
• Hybrid working model.
• Opportunity to work within a high-growth, globally recognised events platform.
• Exposure to a diverse portfolio of world-class live experiences.
• A collaborative and entrepreneurial team environment with strong career development opportunities.

This is a hybrid role working 2 days a week in the office. You will enjoy flexible working and full training and support within the role. Full study support will also be offered in this role to assist you in your personal development.