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

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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
• Adhoc events and new business initiatives profitability analysis

This job profile is not an exhaustive or definitive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, and duties. The responsibilities, tasks and duties of the jobholder might differ from those outlined in the job profile and duties might be amended as the job evolves in light of the needs of the business and/or at the discretion of management.

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