WELCOME TO ZOO

ZOO Digital are an award-winning cloud software company with offices in Sheffield, London, LA, and Dubai. We help the biggest names in global entertainment to reach audiences everywhere with our high-quality localization and media services, adapting original TV and movie content for different languages, regions, and cultures.

Our Mission: To help our clients share their stories, by adapting the world’s most watched TV shows and movies into new formats and languages for international audiences to enjoy.

Our Clients: Major Hollywood studios and streaming services, like Disney, Netflix, NBC Universal, Paramount, Facebook, Sony, and HBO, among others.

Our Services: Dubbing, subtitling and captioning, audio description, metadata localization, artwork localization and media processing.

ZOO Digital’s state of the art technology services are backed by the award-winning bespoke software created by our ever-growing Research & Development team, ZOO Digital Labs. The team create cutting edge software solutions to supercharge our services and make our customers’ lives easier. To find out more, visit https://www.zoodigital.com/

ABOUT THE ROLE

Salary: DOE

Location: Sheffield/Potential for hybrid remote working

Working Hours: Monday-Friday, 9-5

Due to continued expansion, ZOO Digital is currently seeking Finance Assistant to join our team based in Sheffield. Our Finance team supports the ZOO Digital group of companies, which are based both inside and outside of the UK.

As Finance Assistant, you will provide administrative support to the Finance Team, as well as performing finance duties such as purchase ledger, sales ledger, purchase orders, bank reconciliations and ZOO Echo, our bespoke database. You will also maintain revenue and costs of sales records for the business, including accruals and prepayments schedules required for month end.

Day to day responsibilities may include;

• Collating expense reports and checking receipts

• Setting up new supplier accounts in Sage

• Coding and entering invoices, accounting for VAT where applicable

• Setting up new banking templates on the banking system

• Producing weekly payment runs for authorisation

• Payment runs in various currencies

• Ensuring payments are correctly reflected in SAGE

• Issuing purchase orders as required, ensuring that all purchase orders are approved as per process

• Matching purchase invoices as received against purchase orders, tracking outstanding purchase orders

• Posting nominal payments on Sage

· Multi-currency bank reconciliations

• Inter-company bank transfers

• Raising sales invoices

• Providing monthly reports to clients prior to invoicing

• Liaising with different departments to ensure invoices are sent with appropriate information#

• Working on ZOO Echo, our bespoke onboarding/contractor software – authorising translator invoices, answering queries/emails

Further training may be offered to the right candidate seeking to further their education.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced applicants with previous experience gained in a Finance/Accounts Assistant role. You must have excellent organisational and communication skills, as well as the ability to work well alone or as part of a team.

We are also looking for applicants with the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience working in a Finance department, with an all-round knowledge of finance processes

• Experience with accounting software such as Sage

• AAT Level 3 or 4, or studying towards

• Ability to build strong working relationships

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and V-Lookups

WHY CHOOSE ZOO?

Our technology is constantly evolving, so there’s never a dull moment with ZOO! Our team is made up of creatives, innovators, linguists, and collaborators from all corners of the world, and we employ the brightest and most original thinkers in our industry. Along with a competitive salary, we also offer excellent company benefits, which include;

Westfield Health & Rewards – private healthcare cover and discount from hundreds of high street retailers

Unlimited access to over 5000 courses on Udemy for Business

Pension scheme

Free city centre parking

25 days holiday

Free fruit and snacks

Staff Socials

We value all the folks that make ZOO a great place to work. For further details on what it’s like to work for us, please visit our company Glassdoor page - https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-ZOO-Digital-Group-EI_IE12459.11,28.htm