Assistant Management Accountant - Chichester Festival Theatre : Job Details

Chichester Festival Theatre are looking for an Assistant Management Accountant to join our Finance team. This is an exciting new role that will quickly become part of our wider team, working across all areas of finance. Supporting the Management Accountant, you'll work with budget holders and their teams to provide timely and relevant financial information and analysis. We're looking for someone with proven financial experience or relevant exposure in a similar role, who will be flexible and adaptable in their approach.

This is an exciting time to join CFT as we open our Festival 2025 season and launch The Nest, our third space.

With proven financial experience or relevant exposure in a similar role, bringing a flexible and adaptable approach to your work. You’ll play an active role in improving and developing our financial systems and processes, always looking for opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. With a proactive mindset and a collaborative spirit, you’ll be enthusiastic about investing your time and expertise into expanding the provision of financial support and engagement across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Management Accounts, Analysis & Reporting:

• Assist and support the Management Accountant with the preparation of accurate monthly management accounts, detailed analysis, and other reports
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations and schedules forreview
• Calculate, prepare, and post monthly journals
• Support the maintenance of the Fixed Asset register and the preparation of the monthly depreciationjournals
• Assist and support the preparation of the quarterly VAT returns, reviewing transactions at the end of eachmonth
• Contribute to the year-end audit schedules and reconciliations, taking an active part in providing information required
• Collate data and information as needed for external reporting requirements including monthly ONS surveys

Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger & Banking:

• Reconciliation and posting of daily Box Office banking
• Raise monthly and ad hoc sales invoices for approval
• Provide consistent hands-on support for the purchase ledger process - when required
• Support and assist with the reconciliation and settlement of credit card statements and expense claims
• Contribute to the upgrade of our accounting system project to complete the testing and review of our transactions, and the development of changes in process

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Excellent communicationskills
• Experience of working within a financedepartment
• Strong attention todetail
• Intermediate Excelskills
• Strong understanding of general accountingprinciples
• Ability to work independently as well as part of ateam

Qualifications

• Qualified by Experience, part qualified, AAT qualified or equivalent

To apply

Please visit our website for full details of about the role then email your CV and a covering letter, or video, by midnight on Sunday 11 May quoting job reference: 2504AMA in the subject line. Please email our recruitment team.

In your covering letter or video, please let us know why you are applying for the role, what excites you about joining CFT and how your experience and skills match the person specification.

Please email our recruitment team if you'd like to arrange for an informal chat about the role before applying.