MCC: Assistant Management Accountant - Event Billing (Deadline – Jan 23)

Cricexec; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading event management company in Greater London is seeking an Assistant Management Accountant. This role involves supporting the Management Accountant with daily financial analysis, event billing, and preparing budgets. The ideal candidate will showcase strong analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and proficiency in advanced Excel functions. Being part-qualified CIMA or similar is desirable. The position is permanent with normal hours being 09:00 to 18:00, five days a week. A high level of accuracy and attention to detail is essential.

Qualifications

• Methodical and accurate working practice.
• Analytical mind, able to analyze figures to find reasons for variances.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with day-to-day compilation and analysis of data.
• Process day-to-day event billing and ensure timely invoices.
• Work with Catering budget holders for budget creation and forecasting.

Skills

Methodical and accurate working practice

Analytical mind

Excellent communication skills

IT literate, including Advanced Excel functions

Ability to work quickly under pressure

Education

Part-qualified CIMA student or similar

Job description

Assistant Management Accountant - Event Billing

Department: Finance

Reporting to: Management Accountant

Contract: Permanent

Dimensions of role

Normal working hours will be 09:00 to 18:00, five days out of seven Monday to Sunday (inclusive), including one-hour unpaid lunch on each day worked; making a total of 40 working hours per week.

Key purpose of role

Assist the Management Accountant with the day‑to‑day compilation and analysis of data to produce month‑end reports and operate financial modelling tools for the Catering Department including the production of internal and external event billing and concessionaire accounting.

Key tasks and accountabilities

Finance Business Partner

• Performance management: Tracking commercial and financial performance, identifying key success drivers, and developing the financial models and analysis needed to support management.
• Decision support: Working with managers to make key decisions by discussing historical results, future projections, and the financial implications of various strategies.
• Risk and control: Assessing financial risks, challenging spending decisions, and promoting best practices in financial management to ensure the organization’s financial health.
• Cross‑functional collaboration: Building relationships between finance and other departments to ensure that financial strategies are understood and aligned with the company’s overall goals.
• Assist various Budget Holders within the Catering Department to control their budgets.

Monthly Accounts and Reporting

• Ensure required accounting completed.
• Key month‑end operational controls completed.
• Produced to timetables.

Event Billing

• Process day‑to‑day event billing working closely with Event Coordinators to ensure all events are billed promptly and accurately.
• Recharge all at‑cost catering events to requesting departments.
• Recharge or invoice relevant stock transfers such as stewards’ coffee or concessionaire stock requests.

Concessionaire Accounting

• Work with Head of Bars & Concessionaires to ensure all contractual commission obligations are captured.
• Calculate and invoice all commission owed to MCC.
• Prepare journals to account for food vouchers and other adjustments to commission such as concession revenue recorded on MCC tills.
• Reconcile monthly accounts to ensure commission is reflected accurately each month.

Match Day

• Work with Concessionaires to ensure all revenue is captured.
• Major match support to Management Accountant & Systems Manager with stock controls and POS support.
• Cover for the Catering Finance team at minor matches on rota basis.

Budget and forecast preparation and review

• Working with Catering budget holders to compile rigorous zero‑based budgets.
• Working with Catering budget holders to reforecast accounts on a quarterly basis.

Financial Modelling

• Event profitability.
• Ad hoc events and new business initiatives profitability analysis.

Variations of job relating to major matches

• Attendance at all major match‑days, including weekends, as required.
• Any other duties, whether in the Department or elsewhere around the Ground, as required.

Health and Safety

• Responsible for the safety of yourself and others through adherence to MCC (and legal) safety rules and procedures.
• Report any unsafe practices, equipment or circumstances as appropriate.
• Comply fully with relevant security policies and procedures.
• Be familiar with fire procedures and evacuation procedures and be prepared to operate when/if trained as a Fire Warden.

SMART

We use our knowledge and expertise to ensure that everything we do looks, sounds and feels high quality.

ATTENTIVE

We are open and welcoming to all, always paying close attention to people’s needs.

ORIGINAL

We are proud of our history and constantly seek to evolve and innovate.

TOGETHER

Like players, we help each other to achieve our collective goals and be our personal best.

Person specifications – skills, experience and qualifications

Essential

• Methodical and accurate working practice.
• Analytical mind, able to analyse figures to find reasons for variances.
• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
• High level of initiative, with administrative and organisational ability.
• Ability to work quickly under pressure maintaining a high level of accuracy and detail.
• Ability to create relationships with all levels of team – Commercial team, wider MCC team & external suppliers.
• IT literate, including Advanced Excel functions usage.
• High standard of personal presentation.
• Flexibility in work content and hours.

Desired

• Beginning or part‑qualified CIMA student or similar.
• Experience of Food and Beverage stock control processes and systems.
• Experience of EPoS back‑office systems.
• Knowledge of large‑scale event catering operations.