Finance and Admin Assistant - Festival Republic : Job Details

Company: Festival Republic

Department: Finance

Location: Farringdon, London

Reports to: Festival Payments Coordinator

Contract type: Fixed term contract, expected duration, 6 months. Full-time, 40 hours with flexibility for additional hours in the evening and weekends when required

Role Description

We are the UK’s largest festival and event promoter. The team organises festivals including Reading and Leeds, Latitude, Wilderness, Wireless, Electric Picnic, and concerts at Finsbury Park and Crystal Palace Park.

As a Finance and Administration Assistant for Festival Republic, you will gain invaluable opportunities to build on your existing finance/administration experience as you work closely with the Promoters, Accounts Payable, Banking and Operations teams to ensure Artist contracts, payments, and Credit Cards are processed accurately and on time.

Who you are

Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience

• Experience of working in a finance department
• Strong organisational, numeracy and Excel skills
• Confident in your communication skills with good commercial awareness

Behaviours

The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success

• Enthusiasm and ability to work independently in a fast-paced, growing organisation
• Hard working
• Pro-active approach to problem solving
• Great attention to detail and passionate about getting it right first time
• Committed to getting the job done and delivering to agreed deadlines

What the role includes

• Purchase invoice authorisation
• Ensure timely payment of purchase invoices
• Assisting with Artist payments, including contract reviews
• Credit Card spend analysis and submission for FR Corporate Cards
• Raise sales invoices
• Credit Control
• Cash book requests
• Dealing with supplier queries
• Processing accurate expenses for production and licensing colleagues
• Assist with the accurate management of festival P&Ls

Equal Opportunities

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

The Company

Festival Republic is part of Live Nation Entertainment which is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, LN Media and Artist Nation Management.