Accounts Assistant, Finance (eSports)
BLAST, United Kingdom
Job Description
BLAST is on a mission to take esports to the next level of global entertainment. We excite and invite billions of fans to join the esports revolution. We create live and digital experiences - from tournaments that pack out major arenas around the world to great content that’s guaranteed to blow your socks off.
We work with some of the world’s best game publishers and brands to elevate their properties into amazing esports experiences - having delivered tournaments, content and shows in a variety of games, including: Counter-Strike, Rainbow Six Siege, VALORANT, and Fortnite.
BLAST creates, produces, broadcasts and distributes premium esports entertainment underpinned by industry-leading technology - whether this be in the shape of intimate broadcast studio shows, packed-out arena events in all corners of the globe or top-class multi-platform content.
Reports to: Group Financial Controller
Location: London
Key Accountabilities:
- Assembling, reviewing, and posting invoices
- Clarifying any unusual or questionable invoices, items, or prices
- Preparing analysis and reconciliation of supplier accounts
- Corresponding with vendors and responding to inquiries
- Preparing and processing electronic transfers and payments
- Reconciling accounts payable transactions
- Perform the daily bank reconciliation
- Preparing weekly aged creditor reports
- Managing the Finance mailbox for the team
- Processing employee expenses
- Giving Concur inductions to employees
- Administrator of key financial systems (Concur, PLEO)
- Supporting the annual audits for all entities
Requirements
Experience and Qualifications:
- Looking to or currently studying towards an accountancy qualification: AAT, CIMA or ACCA.
- SAP B1 and Concur experience (preferred but not essential)
- Excellent excel knowledge
Key Competencies:
- Positive, can do attitude with the desire to take ownership of assigned tasks and projects.
- A sense of pride in maintaining a clean and accurate set of financial records.
- Confidence to interact with all staff across the finance team and the wider business.
- Flair for evaluating problems and proposing solutions independently.
- Possess a natural curiosity and ability to quickly pick-up new tasks whilst working autonomously.
- Good communicator, ability to build relationships with key stakeholders.
- Well organised, with the ability to keep to strict deadlines in a face paced and high growth environment
Benefits
- A unique opportunity to join a new esports organisation that has already achieved success to be part of, and ensure, its growth.
- Support across all areas of your role to further your development and enable you to contribute to the business to the best of your ability and potential.
- A positive, flexible working environment.
- A fantastic team whose background lies in a variety of fields across sport and entertainment.
- Highly competitive Private Health care
- Incredible enhanced maternity pay