Responsible for Windfall Films Ltd Accounts Payable duties, with a view to train as a Junior Production Accountant.

Accounts Payable:
• Processing of all production invoices ensuring all are correctly authorised in line with signatory limits and correctly coded
• Managing the finance e-mail inbox and actioning all incoming e-mail as appropriate
• Dealing with supplier queries via email and telephone
• Preparing payment runs
• Reconciling supplier accounts and keeping them up to date
• Responsible for managing company credit card account including issuing monthly statements and posting expenses
• Responsible for processing monthly freelancer invoices and preparing payment run
• Posting nominal ledger journals
• Collection of petty cash from Barclays
• Assisting with reconciling bank accounts, including foreign currencies
• Ensuring financial and internal controls are followed
• Assisting in the audit preparation
• Other ad-hoc projects as needed

Junior Production Accounting:
• Assisting Senior Production Accountant with management of Cost Managers, including assisting with month end reconciliations
• Assisting with monitoring and review of production petty cash to ensure that expenses are returned in a timely manner and booked into the accounts
• Assisting the production team and Senior Production Accountant with the short-term cash forecasting for productions
• Managing and coding petty cash expenditure whilst ensuring that the journal is accurate and up to date.
• Liaising with Production Managers in order to close down completed productions alongside the Senior Production Accountant
• Assisting and reviewing monthly recovery of overhead costs
• Setting up of new production Cost Managers
• Providing cover for Senior Production Accountant as and when needed

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:
• Previous experience of working in a finance/accounts team with knowledge of accounts payable principles, cashiering, book-keeping and accounting duties
• Competent use of MS Word, Excel and Outlook
• Works easily and confidently with numbers
• Excellent attention to detail
• Some knowledge of HRMC rules regarding freelance television workers is desirable but not essential
• Some knowledge of Sage or similar accounting software is desirable but not essential
• Ideally having previous experience of working within a media environment, however not essential