Assistant Management Accountant - Team Sports

About This Role

Supporting the Finance Manager and the wider Talent team, the Assistant Management Accountant is responsible for completing month-end close and reconciliation processes, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting, and maintaining strong financial controls. This role suits an accountant with a strong understanding of financial reporting, budgeting, and variance analysis, ideally within the sports, events, or entertainment sectors.

Responsibilities

• Complete month-end close and reconciliation process (P&L and Balance Sheet)
• Review specific financial balances within the consolidated accounts
• Support the Finance Manager and wider Talent team to deliver month-end reporting on a timely and accurate basis
• Prepare revenue and billing schedules, departmental P&Ls, cost summaries, and other key reporting schedules
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations and post payroll, accrual, and re-class journals
• Prepare and input on monthly management packs, providing clear financial insights to stakeholders
• Provide variance analysis and actionable commentary to support the business
• Support the annual budget and monthly reforecast cycles by providing complete, accurate, and up-to-date financial information across six different Team Sports
• Maintain and strengthen financial controls, escalating issues as appropriate to the management team
• Communicate athlete remittances and manage ongoing liaison and relationship with athletes to answer queries
• Ensure athletes are receiving up-to-date information regarding payments, commissions, taxes, invoicing, and other ad hoc support enquiries
• Own athlete Master files, ensuring accurate recognition and capturing of team contracts, sponsorship deals, bonuses, appearance fees, and their associated invoicing timelines and revenue recognition
• Prepare future billing schedules to ensure invoices are raised on a timely basis
• Onboard customers, support with the collections process, and communicate outstanding debts to internal stakeholders
• Own the weekly payment run process including invoice approval, supplier onboarding and bank validation, payment tracking, and liaising with stakeholders to ensure alignment and completeness of settlement runs
• Liaise with the Shared Service Centre to ensure timely invoice processing
• Review and approve employee expenses, ensuring correct coding and allocation
• Manage the external Audit process, including liaising with auditors and responding to queries
• Provide support for requested samples and ensure annual accounts are accurate, compliant, and filed to deadline
• Submit quarterly VAT returns ensuring deadlines are met and timely payments
• Liaise with tax accountants to ensure that local entities complete all compliance activities