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London, United Kingdom

Wasserman is a global leader in sports, music, entertainment and culture. Founded in 2002, Wasserman represents many of the world’s most iconic sports and entertainment figures, musical artists, creators, brands and properties, empowering them to shape culture and captivate audiences worldwide.

Wasserman works with iconic sports and media figures across the world in every major sport, utilizing our extensive influence to maximize negotiations and create meaningful opportunities for our clients across teams, leagues, brands, content and live events.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman operates globally across 27 countries and more than 62 cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Cape Town, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.teamwass.com.

We are currently looking for a Finance Manager, EMEA to join our Wasserman Corporate team in London. This role will be responsible for providing financial and management services to ensure an efficient, accurate and timely financial and management accounting function. Delivering an excellent standard of client service, compliance with external regulatory and reporting obligations, internal management reporting processes and deadlines. Providing financial controls and accounting oversight and direction to overseas affiliates. Key deliverables:

Ownership of Corporate, Central and Direct cost centres for month end reporting
Follow structured monthly close and reconciliation review process in order to complete a month-end close within five business days
Collaborate with Financial Controller to ensure balance sheet reconciliations are correctly prepared across EMEA via account certifications on Workday
Ownership of the statutory reporting books and associated reconciliations in Workday
Assist Financial Controller in evaluating, developing, implementing and documenting new accounting policies and procedures to respond to changes in GAAP, tax and regulatory requirements
Coordinates and manages the day to day annual group, UK and EMEA audits ensuring deadlines are achieved and a high standard of working papers and supporting documentation provided, including preparation and review of statutory accounts
Ensure full compliance for tax, VAT and other relevant taxes in the EMEA region
Manages accounting integration of acquisitions and/or new business ventures and quickly establish robust financial controls and align to group accounting policies
Maintain strong financial controls and escalate issues appropriately and in a timely manner
Identify potential process efficiencies & contribute towards a high standard, continuous improvement culture
Develop super-user expertise for the company global accounting software, Workday and uses system capabilities to streamline and improve processes

Requirements

7+ years PQE with a recognised UK professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or overseas equivalent or demonstrate expertise in a similar role
Minimum of 7+ years in accounting roles with a minimum of 4+ years at management accountant level
Demonstrable success in a senior accounting role with International affiliate experience
Experience of managing and supervising an accounting team, including setting objectives and conducting annual appraisals
Ability to multi-task effectively without losing quality. Tenacious, persistent and highly motivated with advanced organisational, analytical and people management skills
Experience working in Sports / Talent industry (desirable)
Experience working in a multi-national company
Experience of Workday ERP (desirable)
Proficient with Microsoft Office applications specifically with Excel. Ideally Pivot tables & VLOOKUPs

Benefits