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Inspiring Creativity is at the heart of Lions Festivals. Our Festivals and Awards are the world’s greatest celebrations of creative communications in all its forms. They are where the global creative industries come together to meet and find the inspiration to achieve even greater things.
At Lions our values are important to us: we think they create a vision of the kind of company we aspire to be, stating our principles and standards and giving a sense of what is important to us.
THE FESTIVALS
The portfolio of annual events includes Cannes Lions, Spikes Asia, Eurobest and Dubai Lynx.
Our flagship festival, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has been recognising the best in communications since 1954. It has grown to become the world’s biggest celebration of creativity in communications, with more than 35,000 entries from all over the world and more than 12,000 delegates from 94 countries in attendance each year. The networking and learning opportunity of the year, Cannes Lions is the must-attend event for anyone involved in the creative communication.
Previous speakers have included Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Clinton and Malcolm Gladwell to name but a few!
ABOUT THE ROLE
As the Accounts Assistant you will support our busy small finance team, working with the Management Accountants and Finance Manager to support an efficient and accurate month end process working to tight deadlines.
Responsibilities will include:
·Debt collection of premium accounts globally
·All aspects of sales ledger, raising invoices, re-issuing invoices and raising credit notes with the outsourced finance team.
·Investigating and resolving queries relating to invoices
·Reconciliation of key expenses
·Reconciling bank statements weekly and monthly
·Preparing journals for management accountants
·Managing festival expenses onsite in Cannes
·Reconciliation of GL with management accounts
·Raising, reviewing and closing purchase orders
·Balance sheet reconciliation to ensure efficient balance sheet
·Key contact with commercial team
ABOUT THE PERSON
To be successful in this role you will be AAT qualified and be working towards CIMA or ACCA. Ideally you will have a degree in Accounting or Business and existing experience working within an Accounts Assistant role. Knowledge of Oracle is an advantage but not essential. You must be proactive and innovative with the desire to continuously improve efficiencies. You will have strong communication skills and be willing to take on ad hoc tasks as required.
WHY WORK AT LIONS FESTIVALS?
World-class and with global reach, inside the six different Lions Festivals you’ll find innovative ideas, the brightest minds and the best in creative communications at work. We want people to be happy working for Lions, we want them to be innovative, we want good communication and customers to be at the heart of what we do. If you fit the bill, drop us a line!
HOW TO APPLYPlease send your CV, covering letter and salary expectations torecruitment@lionsfestivals.com. Applications without salary details may delay the process. The subject of the email needs to clearly state the job title of the vacancy and reference number – CB0035
Successful candidates will be responded to when they apply and any adverts will be removed when the role has been filled. If you are interested, please apply immediately to avoid disappointment.
Successful candidates will be responded to when they apply and any adverts will be removed when the role has been filled. If you are interested, please apply immediately to avoid disappointment.
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