Assistant Accountant

CAA Stellar, a world-leading sports agency and global leader in football management, is looking for an Assistant Accountant to join its small, fast-paced finance team. You will support everything from daily transactions to international compliance.

Location: Mayfair office, London (3 days a week in the office; the New Cavendish Street office can be used ad hoc). Contract: Full Time. Reports to the Financial Controller and works alongside the Management Accountant.

⚪ WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Supporting the Management Accountant with day-to-day operations and getting the month-end books closed on time
• Posting daily bank entries and keeping bank reconciliations up to date
• Preparing and posting routine journals, including prepayments, accruals and lease journals, ready for review
• Preparing trial balances from overseas entities and uploading them as journals into SAP
• Supporting the reconciliation of specific balance sheet accounts, taking ownership of agreed accounts as your experience grows
• Looking after intercompany accounts between CAA entities and tracking down any mismatches
• Helping pull together data and drafting quarterly VAT returns, including a monthly VAT review
• Supporting ledger management and local compliance for the European entities
• Preparing schedules and reconciliations and supporting the year-end audit

🟡 THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU NEED:

• AAT Level 3 or equivalent, ideally studying towards ACCA or CIMA
• At least 1-2 years' finance/accounts experience, including day-to-day transaction processing and general accounting tasks
• Month-end support: experience posting journals, accruals and prepayments, and a basic understanding of management accounts and performance against budget
• Intercompany and overseas: experience managing accounts between entities and preparing trial balances for international offices
• VAT: experience preparing quarterly returns and checking ledger data for coding errors (European VAT experience is a significant plus)
• Banking: bank postings and bank reconciliations
• Confident with accounting systems/ERPs (SAP S/4HANA is a significant advantage)
• Excel: pivot tables, VLOOKUPs and XLOOKUPs
• A sports industry background (football club, sports agency or talent business) is desirable
• Organised, proactive and comfortable working independently while knowing when to ask for support
• A positive, collaborative attitude and willingness to learn within a small finance team

Creative Artists Agency ("CAA") is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As part of our zero-tolerance approach to discrimination in any form, you and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally recognised protected basis under UK law.