Assistant Accountant

CAA Stellar's small, fast-paced finance team is seeking a positive, proactive Assistant Accountant who can get stuck in from day one. Reporting to the Financial Controller, the role acts as the Management Accountant's right hand, supporting month-end close, intercompany and overseas reporting, VAT and day-to-day banking across UK and international entities. It is a varied position covering both financial and management accounting, suited to someone with exposure to both who wants to build their experience in each area.

• Act as the Management Accountant's right hand, helping to close the books accurately and on time each month.
• Prepare and post month-end journals, including accruals, prepayments and lease journals, ready for review.
• Reconcile agreed balance sheet accounts, taking ownership of more accounts as experience grows.
• Support the preparation of the monthly management accounts and help explain movements against budget.
• Prepare trial balances from overseas entities and upload them to SAP as journals.
• Manage intercompany accounts between CAA Stellar and other CAA group entities, investigating and clearing mismatches.
• Support the day-to-day ledgers and local compliance requirements for European entities.
• Pull data from SAP and draft the quarterly VAT returns for review.
• Run a monthly VAT review of ledger data, flagging coding errors and incorrect VAT treatments.
• Process and, where needed, reprocess daily bank postings in SAP, and own the bank reconciliations in SAP, keeping them up to date.
• Prepare schedules and reconciliations to support the year-end audit.

• ACCA Applied Knowledge level or equivalent qualification.
• A great attitude: positive, proactive and organised, happy to work independently while knowing when to ask for help.
• A basic understanding of management accounts: what they are, what they show, and how they track performance against budget.
• A sound grasp of double-entry bookkeeping, including journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Experience drafting VAT returns, with a good understanding of VAT principles and the ability to check ledger data for coding errors and incorrect VAT treatments.
• Experience with bank postings and reconciliations in an accounting system or ERP.
• Confident Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs and XLOOKUPs.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, managing competing priorities and meeting deadlines.
• Able to handle highly confidential information with complete discretion.

• 1–2 years' experience at a football club, sports agency, talent management business or similar, with an understanding of the pace and total privacy the industry demands.
• Studying towards a chartered qualification such as ACCA or CIMA.
• SAP S/4HANA experience (a big advantage).
• European VAT experience (a big plus).
• Exposure to intercompany accounting or multi-entity, international reporting.

• Based at the Mayfair office, with an expectation of working in the office three days a week.
• Also has access to the New Cavendish Street office, which can be used on an ad hoc basis.

• Support through ACCA or CIMA studies over the next two to three years, alongside taking on more ownership across month-end, intercompany, VAT and audit and growing into a confident, well-rounded Assistant Accountant.

CAA Stellar is a world-leading sports agency and a global leader in football management, managing the careers of hundreds of elite athletes across the UK and internationally.