Job Description

The role will be varied and interesting interacting with teams across the world!

• Authorization and approval of budgets, purchase orders and expenses in the purchasing system.
• Controlling AP / Invoice payment process.
• Handle and arrange urgent payment requests.
• Raising third parties & intercompany invoices.
• To upkeep and maintain the general ledger.
• Monitor costs vs budget on artist projects
• Assisting with the monthly management reporting packs
• Preparation and posting of month end journals
• Month end reconciliations.
• Preparing the monthly forecasting sheets
• Ad hoc analyses and reports as directed by the Senior Management Accountant / Finance Director.
• Setting up artist projects on multiple systems
• Providing financial coding to the central finance team
• Updating marketing sheets, by artist projects
• To liaise with the international marketing team on setting up and tracking global marketing campaign spends.
• Liaise with international finance teams on marketing budgets
• Work with royalty manager of tracking marketing provisions on artist/label accounts
• To give general admin and finance support to the rest of the Virgin, Spinefarm and Fiction teams

Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 paid days of annual leave
• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
• Holiday Purchase scheme
• Dental and Travel Insurance options
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Cars

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Would suit someone studying for an Accountancy qualification
• Enthusiastic with a desire to work in the music industry
• Strong PC skills – Excel experience essential, with experience of pivot tables, complex formulas
• Numerate – used to working with financial data
• Experience of balance sheet reconciliation would be ideal
• Team player, good at building professional relationships and adapting a personal approach to deal with different personalities and varying levels of knowledge and skills across the organization
• Good communicator across all levels of the business
• Able to manage and priorities own workload in an often-pressurized environment
• Positive, problem solver, and an autonomous worker
• Customer service orientated
• Experience of working in Record Company an advantage
• Ideally experienced in working with the following systems; Microsoft Office systems, Hyperion Oracle, SAP, SR1