Senior Bookkeeper

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom SRLV Full time

VACANCY

Senior Bookkeeper - Music & Entertainment Team
- The Role- An opportunity exists within a specialist team working with a large talent booking agency with an extensive roster of artists touring internationally. We are looking for an individual with accounting experience, preparing accounts to trial balance preferably with experience of touring artists and show settlements.

The individual will be required to work as part of a team, taking responsibility for the Agency’s Day to day accounting and maintaining and reconciling supporting accounting reports. The role includes a significant amount of client contact so the individual will need to be both technically strong with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Key ResponsibilitiesFinancial accounting
- Raising sales invoices (artist commission statements) for agents and reviewing similar statements prepared by the client’s staff.
- Checking completeness of artist commission invoices and posting/supervising posting of these to the accounting software.
- Processing/supervising processing of overhead invoices including checking authorisations before posting to nominal, coding staff expense claims, analysis of director’s credit card statements and posting to accounting software.
- Liaising with client to obtain payment authorisations
- Reviewing artist & office payments processed by the team, assisting with making payments where necessary.
- Obtaining details and analysing cash floats, posting these to the accounting software
- Reviewing payroll reports and input and reconcile to payroll summary, drafting the month end journals and posting these to the accounting software
- Preparing all month end reconciliations including bank accounts, debtors and creditors.
- Reconciling various balances on a monthly basis including commission income, payroll, property costs, artist ledger client accounts, maintaining accounting summaries.
- Preparing quarterly VAT returns and FEU returns
- Maintaining integrity of intercompany accounts including the processing of recharges and reconciling balances at month end
- Preparing and post month end journals

Management reporting
- Preparing artist commission statements for Directors, including artist fee reconciliation requiring knowledge of show settlements, VAT, FEU, Foreign taxes
- Maintaining schedule of artist tours from insurance bookings, reconciling this to insurance billings
- Reviewing and reconciling artist ledger balances, posting artist ledger journals at month end checking the bank reconciliations on the artist ledgers.
- Processing month end journals and arranging transfers from artist ledgers to office account.
- Reconcile show settlements with monies received and costs incurred where shows promoted by the client
- Prepare artist settlement summaries for review and payment for client promoted shows.

Other duties
- Preparing annual sch23 report to HMRC and other NSO returns as required.
- Assisting team members and reviewing their work.
- Reporting to team manager
- Who You Are- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage relationships, both internally and externally
- Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal
- High attention to detail and methodical in their approach
- IT literate with good practical knowledge of accounting systems and Excel
- Self-starter with the ability to work on own initiative and without direction
- Confident, enthusiastic and with the ability to cope in a fast-paced environment, delivering work to agreed timescales
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage workload effectively, under pressure at busy times
- Benefits- Fantastic private medical insurance
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 3 additional days over the December holidays
- 3% Pension contribution
- Cashback scheme for medical expenses
- Group Life Insurance
- Mental and Physical Health Support
- Regular social events and activities - including pizza, breakfast and/or drinks on the rooftop terrace, office, or local venues
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Excellent office space in Fitzrovia

Your Experience
- AAT qualified or part ACCA Qualified
- 3-4 years of accounting experience
- Familiarity with artist show settlements and an awareness of international tax and FEU regulations
- Experience of working with others and reviewing their work - providing feedback and support where necessary
- Extensive, in-depth knowledge of double entry bookkeeping and general accounting practices and processes with experience of preparing accounts to trial balance
- Working knowledge of VAT
- Strong desire to increase and expand knowledge and experience
- Additional Information- Hours:_
9.30am - 5.30pm
- Hybrid working:_
3 days (+) in office, 2 days at home



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