Accounts Assistant

Creative Artists Agency; England; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) seeks a proactive Accounts Assistant for our Mayfair office to support the finance team in daily transactions and month-end close. You will collaborate with the Financial Controller and Management Accountant on cross-entity ledgers, including intercompany reconciliations and VAT tasks.

The role requires 1–2 years in finance, AAT Level 3 (or equivalent) with progression towards ACCA/CIMA, and SAP S/4HANA familiarity. Office-based 3 days/week in London’s Mayfair area.

Qualifications

• AAT Level 3 or equivalent; ideally studying towards ACCA or CIMA, with ambition to progress.
• At least 1-2 years' finance/accounts experience, including day-to-day transaction processing and general accounting tasks.
• Month-end support: posting journals, accruals, and prepayments; basic understanding of management accounts and performance vs. budget.
• Intercompany & overseas: experience managing accounts between entities and preparing trial balances for international offices.
• VAT: experience preparing quarterly returns, checking ledger data for coding errors; European VAT experience a significant plus.
• Banking: reprocessing bank postings and performing bank reconciliations.
• Software: SAP S/4HANA a significant advantage.
• Excel: pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and XLOOKUPs.
• Sports industry background desirable (football club, sports agency, or talent business).

Responsibilities

• Reporting directly into the Financial Controller to maintain accurate accounts and support team objectives.
• Working closely alongside the Management Accountant as their right-hand support for day-to-day operations.
• Teaming up with the Management Accountant to get the month-end books closed off on time.
• Taking care of daily bank postings and keeping our bank reconciliations up to date.
• Preparing and posting routine journals, including prepayments, accruals, and lease journals, ready for review.
• Prepping trial balances from our overseas entities and uploading them as journals into SAP.
• Supporting the reconciliation of specific balance sheet accounts, taking ownership of agreed accounts as experience develops..
• Looking after intercompany accounts between us and other CAA entities, tracking down any mismatches.
• Helping pull together data and drafting our quarterly VAT returns, including running a monthly VAT review.
• Supporting the day-to-day management of ledgers and local compliance requirements for our European entities.
• Preparing schedules and appropriate reconciliations, providing general support for the year-end audit.

Skills

AAT Level 3

Finance experience

Month-end journal postings

Intercompany reconciliations

VAT returns

Excel proficiency

SAP S/4HANA

Education

AAT Level 3 or equivalent

ACCA/CIMA in progress

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Excel

Job description

Job Description

OVERVIEW

CAA Stellar is a world-leading sports agency and a global leader in football management, managing the careers of hundreds of elite athletes across the UK and internationally. We operate a "total management" model that blends data analytics, contract negotiations, and commercial partnerships to support champions on and off the pitch. Our small, fast-paced finance team is looking for a handy, high-energy Accounts Assistant who can hit the ground running. The position reports directly to the Financial Controller but works closely alongside the Management Accountant. We need a proactive, self-reliant individual who is happy to crack on with tasks independently, take real ownership of their workload, and comfortably navigate everything from daily transactions to international compliance.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to gain broad exposure to a varied accounting role, develop their skills and experience across different areas of finance, and progress towards an Assistant Accountant position in the future.

This role would be well suited to someone who has some prior experience working within a football club, sports agency, talent management business or similar fast-paced environment, and understands the pace, confidentiality and deadlines that come with the industry.

The role is based at our Mayfair office, with an expectation of working in the office three days a week. The team also has access to the New Cavendish Street office, which can be used on an ad hoc basis.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reporting directly into the Financial Controller to maintain accurate accounts and support team objectives.
• Working closely alongside the Management Accountant as their right-hand support for day-to-day operations.
• Teaming up with the Management Accountant to get the month-end books closed off on time.
• Taking care of daily bank postings and keeping our bank reconciliations up to date.
• Preparing and posting routine journals, including prepayments, accruals, and lease journals, ready for review.
• Prepping trial balances from our overseas entities and uploading them as journals into SAP.
• Supporting the reconciliation of specific balance sheet accounts, taking ownership of agreed accounts as experience develops..
• Looking after intercompany accounts between us and other CAA entities, tracking down any mismatches.
• Helping pull together data and drafting our quarterly VAT returns, including running a monthly VAT review.
• Supporting the day-to-day management of ledgers and local compliance requirements for our European entities.
• Preparing schedules and appropriate reconciliations, providing general support for the year-end audit.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• AAT Level 3 or equivalent; ideally studying towards ACCA or CIMA, with ambition to progress.
• 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; basic understanding of management accounts and performance vs. budget.
• Intercompany & overseas: experience managing accounts between entities and preparing trial balances for international offices.
• VAT: experience preparing quarterly returns, checking ledger data for coding errors; European VAT experience a significant plus.
• Banking: reprocessing bank postings and performing bank reconciliations.
• Software: confident with accounting systems/ERPs; SAP S/4HANA a significant advantage.
• Excel: pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and XLOOKUPs.
• Sports industry background desirable (football club, sports agency, or talent business).
• Organised, proactive, and comfortable working independently while knowing when to seek support.
• Positive, collaborative attitude; willing to learn and develop within a small finance team.
• Office-based 3 days/week.

Please ensure you provide complete and legible information in your application. An incomplete application may affect your consideration for employment.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.Please inform CAA's Recruitment Department if you need any assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.