Job Description

THE AGENCY

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organisations that shape culture and inspire the world.  The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations.

Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities.  Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally.

OVERVIEW

For more than 30 years, CAA Brand Management has helped brands of all shapes and sizes show up in new consumer product categories, experiences and territories, through licensing, strategic partnerships and joint ventures. Clients include many of the world’s leading brands and talent, including Coca Cola, Minecraft, and Formula 1.

CAA Brand Management’s finance team is looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Finance Assistant, you will report directly into the Financial Controller EMEA and play a crucial role in supporting the finance activities across the business. The role has a wide range of responsibilities and will require someone who can work accurately and to tight deadlines. This is an excellent opportunity for the finance assistant to be exposed to both financial controlling work as well as commercial finance. There is a good mix of routine work as well as ad hoc projects.

Duties and responsibilities controller function

• Accounts payable invoice processing and payments

• balance sheet reconciliations for accruals and prepayments at month end

• Preparing bank payments across multiple accounts and currencies and

subsequent accounting entries

• Maintaining currency tables which reconcile to bank accounts on a daily basis

• Preparing monthly bank reconciliations for 15-20 bank accounts

• Assist in banking-accounting software integration projects

• Completing quarterly VAT returns for submission to HMRC

• Review/approve expense reports in Concur as well as manual expense claims

• Process credit card expenses

• Reconcile pension contributions with payroll

• Run monthly fixed asset depreciation reports

Duties and responsibilities commercial finance function

• Process quarterly royalty reports to pay licensor's cash held in trust at CAA

• Prepare invoices in brand management software Brand Comply to be sent to licensees

• Assist credit control for licensee payments held in trust at CAA for licensors

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

• Must have some basic accounting qualifications (e.g., AAT or ACCA Applied Knowledge)

• Confident Excel user

• Previous SAP or Microsoft AX experience desirable

• Experience with Concur or other expense software desirable

• Must be comfortable working autonomously

• Ability to work at speed to process a sizable amount of simple transactions

• Good communication skills, such as reaching out to other team members quickly when needed to

keep tasks moving forwards and not overly reliant on email

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.

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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.