At a Glance
- Tasks: Assist with invoicing, data management, and financial reporting in a dynamic film production environment.
- Company: Join Working Title Films, a leading British production company with a rich history of award-winning content.
- Benefits: Gain valuable experience, competitive salary, and support for further studies in finance.
- Other info: Work in a vibrant office environment, 5 days a week, with opportunities for career growth.
- Why this job: Be part of a creative team that shapes iconic films and TV shows while developing your finance skills.
- Qualifications: Degree educated or strong A-levels, with a passion for film and finance.
The predicted salary is between 27000 - 33000 £ per year.
Working Title Films, co-chaired by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, is one of the world’s leading British production companies, having created well-loved and critically acclaimed film and TV content for 40 years. The company is proud to have created over 130 films and TV programmes that have grossed over $8.5 billion worldwide and they continue to champion new talent through the London Screen Academy and NBC Universal Global Writers Programme.
The Finance Assistant reports to the Head of Finance & Operations. The responsibilities are:
- Invoicing of Producer fees and reconciling with external accountants on participation statements. This is highly sensitive information and good numeracy skills are required for this task.
- Updating an excel worksheet to be shared with the Head of Finance which is time sensitive in many cases.
- Managing and capturing the data for recharges to be invoiced to various productions monthly. This is time sensitive and will involve liaising with the Financial Controllers on various Film & TV shows.
- Collating all back up documents (invoices, credit card statements etc) and providing these with the invoices. Great attention to detail and excellent numerical skills are required to complete this task.
- Following up outstanding invoices and reporting to the Financial Controller and the Head of Finance if any collections issues arise.
- Managing the Finance Teams filing system especially in relation to Audit and HMRC requirements.
- Managing the company’s petty cash account, including paying work experience travel expenses and other ad hoc cash expenses, cashing up and preparing a petty cash reconciliation on a monthly basis.
- Managing the group of companies’ credit cards, including collecting and organizing receipts and preparing all credit card reconciliations. There are currently 13 credit cards in the company across the UK and the US with certain credit cards having over 250 transactions each month.
- Dealing with any other ad hoc requests from the Head of Finance and being available to assist the company’s Finance team with administrative tasks as requested.
- Dealing with any technical and IT problems, liaising with the company’s IT team to find quick, efficient resolution to any IT issues.
Skills and experience required:
- Degree educated or have good A-level results, strong results in Mathematics and/or Accountancy.
- A strong desire to study either CIMA or ACCA with company support.
- Strong excel skills.
- A confident and effective communicator at all levels.
- Highly numerate with attention to detail and the ability to multitask.
- Able to handle sensitive issues in a diplomatic and discrete manner.
- Passionate for film and the film & media industry in general.
- Familiar with most Microsoft packages including Outlook, Excel, Word and Power Point.
- Basic knowledge of accounting systems, training will be given on specific systems that Working Title use.
- Required in the office 5 days a week.
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