Job Title: Finance Assistant (Event Accounts)

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £23k - £26k per annum DOE

Job type: Full time, Permanent

Closing date for applications: 6 January 2025

Interviews: 22 January 2025

B:Music s mission is to inspire a love of live music, through performance, participation and learning.

Overall Purpose

To assist with calculating and transacting event settlements, preparation of monthly management accounts and to provide general accounting and administration support to the finance team. The role is a busy challenging position which requires that deadlines are always met within a fast-moving business and transactions are processed in accordance with current accounting procedures and financial regulations.

Key Accountabilities

Assist with settlement calculations, including liaison with promoters and artists
Sales invoice and journal preparation and posting.
Posting of promoter and artists invoices and preparation of weekly BACS payments.
Setting up of new event codes in the finance system and other systems.
Set up new customer accounts in line with current accounting procedures.
Monthly reconciliation of various control accounts, including investigation and resolution of any balances, to ensure delivery of accurate month end reports.
Assist in the preparation of the monthly management accounts and event reporting, including the timely posting of event related and other journals.
Provide general accounting and administration support to the finance team, including providing cover for Cashier and Purchase Ledger Finance Assistant roles
To assist other departments by providing accurate and timely information.
Develop good working relationships with other departments; ensuring all information is received promptly and any issues dealt with in a timely manner.
Duties and responsibilities will vary from time to time and the post-holder will be expected to perform all the other such duties as are reasonably comparable.

Person Specification

High level of numeracy and good attention to detail.
Competency in MS Office, particularly MS Excel.
Previous experience of working in an accounting environment and in a similar role.
Excellent communication skills combined with self-motivation and enthusiasm
Good planning, organisational and time management skills. With the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Ability to operate with confidence, credibility and initiative across all functions and levels of the organisation.

Desirable

Working towards an accounting qualification (e.g. AAT)

If you feel you have the experience and knowledge we re looking for we would love to hear from you.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Administration, Data Entry, Payroll, Reconciliation, Finance, Finance Administration, Finance Administrator, Finance Admin, Financial Administrator, Payroll Administrator, Invoicing, Xero, SAP, Accounts, Finance Assistant, Account Assistant, Accounts Administrator will also be considered for this role.

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