Assistant Accountant
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Job Title: Assistant Accountant
Location: London area
Working model: Hybrid
Salary: £30,000- £35,000
About The Goat Agency:
Goat is part of WPP Media (formerly GroupM), the world’s leading media investment company. Since 2015, we've been pioneers in influencer marketing, helping brands leverage the power of social media to achieve real, measurable results. Today, we stand as the global leader in the space, delivering award-winning campaigns across 70+ countries.
As part of our team, you'll collaborate with 500+ social natives worldwide, driving cutting-edge influencer campaigns for some of the most exciting brands. Whether it’s short-term activations or long-term ambassador programs, we treat influencer marketing as a full-funnel channel that drives awareness, engagement, and conversions.
Our data-driven approach is built on insights from tracking over 100,000 influencers and campaign performance. We combine this with expert relationship management, social-first creative strategy, paid media, and advanced tracking, measurement, and optimisation to deliver results that matter.
We’re also proud to be recognised as a recipient of the ‘Top Employer Europe 2024’ certification, underscoring our commitment to fostering a dynamic and supportive work environment. If you’re ready to be part of the team shaping the industry, we’d love to hear from you.
Role Overview:
Goat is looking for a new hire to support the UK finance team as the business continues to grow and change following its acquisition by WPP Media. This role’s main focus is on the smooth processing of day to day finance activities for the UK unit across AP, AR, monthly reporting and payroll. This is a wide ranging and expansive role, with plenty of opportunity for growth for the right candidate as Goat continues to integrate into the WPP Media/WPP ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
- Processing of Client/Intercompany invoices, and the initial management of credit control process, including chasing of Trade Debtors and posting/matching of cash receipts.
- Support on the processing of supplier setup, PO requests and purchase invoice approvals.
- Support on monthly payroll processing, including collating commission and bonus. payments/approvals, initial input of monthly payroll data and processing of payroll journals.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 1 year experience in a transactional finance role.
- Experience across day to day finance, potentially including processing of AR, AP, banking transactions, VAT.
- Experience supporting month end reporting on a relatively short timescale.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Interest in supporting senior members of the finance team with adhoc information/requests.
- Experience of either Sage50 or MediaOcean ERPs. (Desirable)
- Part Qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA etc) or AAT qualified/part qualified/ Relevant University Degree. (Desirable)
Company Culture and Benefits:
- Regular social events and ongoing clubs
- £200 grant to make your working-from-home set up comfortable once passed probation
- Provided MacBook laptop to work from
- Flexi-hours
- Remote/Hybrid Working
- Health and wellbeing allowance once you’ve passed probation
- Health Insurance after you’ve passed probation
- Life Insurance Policy
- 25 Days Holiday plus bank holidays, accruing up to 30 days based on length of service
- Birthday & Work Anniversary Days Off
- Length of Service Gifts
- In-office benefits such as beauty treatments & Yoga
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- Volunteering Days
- Free Flu Jabs
Plus many more!