Finance Assistant

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Strand on the Green, London, England, GBR
In-Office
Entry level
Agency • Fashion • News + Entertainment • Sports
The Role
Provides financial, administrative, and accounting support for The Wall Group’s London fashion businesses. Responsibilities include accounts payable vendor setup and payment processing, talent statements, accounts receivable billing support, purchase orders, credit notes, invoice portal uploads, business reporting, and ad hoc finance tasks. The role requires strong Excel skills, attention to detail, numeracy, communication, organization, and the ability to work independently in a busy team environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
Who We Are:The Wall Group is a fully integrated management company championing creative talent through effective, career-elevating representation. With offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Paris, our team represents the industry’s most influential fashion stylists, hairstylists, makeup artists and production designers. Services including editorial and commercial bookings, endorsement and sponsorship management, and trend-focused brand consulting allow The Wall Group to drive the careers of fashion’s leading creators. The company is also committed to promoting environmental conservation through business and not-for-profit ventures. The Wall Group was founded in 2000 by Brooke Wall.

Overall Responsibility

To provide financial, administrative, and accounting assistance to The Wall Group London. This entails dealing with a varied work remit, currently made up of regular financial responsibilities, and ad hoc requests depending on business needs.  This is a “sleeves up” role for someone who enjoys getting fully involved in a business and working as part of a busy team, as well as having day-to-day contact with customers, vendors, WNS (outsourcing partner) and colleagues within the Fashion business.


Key areas of responsibility

Talent (TWG) and AP (All Fashion businesses)

Supporting with AP duties, including:

  • Obtaining and processing new talent/vendor set up forms.
  • Ensure all vendors are verified
  • Ensuring all vendors have completed payment details
  • Ensuring tax documents are received as needed.
  • Preparation of fortnightly Model statements and ensuring correct allocation of expenses.
  • Preparation of payment runs and submission to Treasury team

Billing and AR

Supporting with AR duties, including:

  • Obtaining purchase order numbers when required.
  • Responding to billing queries and correcting issues that arise
  • Raising credit notes (when and if required) and ensuring correct accounting treatment of billing adjustments
  • Portal registrations and regular uploading of invoices to Customer Portals.

Business Support

Supporting with ad hoc business queries, including:

  • Preparation of Model statement for Managers and dealing with Manager queries
  • Assisting with the preparation of ad hoc information for business leads, if required
  • Providing regular billing updates

Other ad-hoc tasks to support the wider Fashion Finance team.

Qualifications

  • Hands on exposure to CRM systems
  • Must have excellent proficiency in Excel
  • Excellent attention to detail and numeracy
  • Good communication, presentation and relationship building skills and the ability to proactively work in teams
  • Able to work without close supervision on business-as-usual tasks
  • (Desirable) Knowledge of the SAP accounting system
  • Must be flexible, adaptable, and willing to take on ad hoc/new tasks as required by the business
  • Organized with an ability to prioritize, multitask, and meet strict deadlines
  • Interest in Fashion industry

Additional details

  • Location: The Strand, London (a minimum 3 days in the office)
  • Working hours: 9.30-18.00

Skills Required

  • Hands-on exposure to CRM systems
  • Excellent proficiency in Excel
  • Excellent attention to detail and numeracy
  • Good communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills
  • Ability to proactively work in teams
  • Ability to work without close supervision on business-as-usual tasks
  • Flexibility, adaptability, and willingness to take on ad hoc or new tasks
  • Organization and ability to prioritize, multitask, and meet strict deadlines
  • Interest in the fashion industry
  • Knowledge of the SAP accounting system
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The Company
10,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1961

What We Do

WME Group is a global network of businesses that represent the world's leading talent, intellectual property and brands. It comprises the talent agency WME, global marketing agency 160over90, brand licensing agency IMG Licensing, and nonscripted content business Pantheon Media Group, specializing in talent representation, brand strategy, and event management across sports, entertainment, and fashion globally.

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