Summary: Halliday Marx is seeking an Assistant Accountant for a 5-month interim role with a Media firm, offering a hybrid working arrangement. The position involves managing cash advances, expense transfers, and financial reporting while ensuring compliance with internal controls. The ideal candidate will have strong SAP proficiency and experience in month-end processes and treasury functions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the end-to-end process for issuing and receiving cash advances from the central cash float, ensuring all movements are accurately recorded and controlled
- Maintain and administer the cash management workflow, ensuring timely processing, appropriate approvals, and adherence to internal controls
- Prepare and submit expense transfer documentation for approval, covering transfers between individuals and between individuals and regional offices
- Act as a key point of contact to investigate, resolve, and follow up on expense transfer queries and discrepancies using the finance system
- Perform ongoing reconciliation of an international cashflow, providing interim financial oversight where required
- Produce and distribute a weekly commissioning and story spend report, maintaining accurate year-to-date tracking of costs
- Provide a high-level summary of expenditure to senior management, highlighting key variances, trends, and potential overspend risks
- Work closely with editorial and operational teams to confirm staff assignments, locations, and deployment dates for specific projects or stories
- Respond to staff and freelancer expense-related queries, directing them to the appropriate finance support channels where applicable
- At the conclusion of the assignment, deliver practical recommendations and observations to support improvements to existing financial systems and workflows
Key Skills:
- Highly proficient with SAP
- Immediately Available
- Month end and treasury experience
- Outstanding double entry bookkeeping
- Very comfortable with Accruals, Prepayments and Journals
Salary (Rate): £60,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Finance
Detailed Description From Employer:
Halliday Marx are partnering with an exceptional Media firm to hire an Assistant Accountant on an interim basis for 5 months. Hybrid working (3 days in the office)
Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end process for issuing and receiving cash advances from the central cash float, ensuring all movements are accurately recorded and controlled
- Maintain and administer the cash management workflow, ensuring timely processing, appropriate approvals, and adherence to internal controls
- Prepare and submit expense transfer documentation for approval, covering transfers between individuals and between individuals and regional offices
- Act as a key point of contact to investigate, resolve, and follow up on expense transfer queries and discrepancies using the finance system
- Perform ongoing reconciliation of an international cashflow, providing interim financial oversight where required
- Produce and distribute a weekly commissioning and story spend report, maintaining accurate year-to-date tracking of costs
- Provide a high-level summary of expenditure to senior management, highlighting key variances, trends, and potential overspend risks
- Work closely with editorial and operational teams to confirm staff assignments, locations, and deployment dates for specific projects or stories
- Respond to staff and freelancer expense-related queries, directing them to the appropriate finance support channels where applicable
- At the conclusion of the assignment, deliver practical recommendations and observations to support improvements to existing financial systems and workflows
Requirements
- Highly proficient with SAP
- Immediately Available
- Month end and treasury experience
- Outstanding double entry bookkeeping
- Very comfortable with Accruals, Prepayments and Journals
Rate:
£60,000 Per year
Location:
London Area, United Kingdom
IR35 Status:
Undetermined
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
Finance
Seniority Level:
Not Specified
