WELCOME TO ZOO
ZOO Digital are an award-winning cloud software company with offices in Sheffield, London, LA, Dubai, Korea, and India. 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: £26,000-£29,000 DOE
Location: Office based
ZOO Digital currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join our team in Sheffield city centre. 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 be responsible for assisting with the finance function across the US and UK entities. Key responsibilities will focus on Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Bank Administration, Cash Management and Payroll.
Duties and responsibilities will include:
·Matching/checking information supplied by translator Purchase Orders. Authorising invoices on SAGE software.
·Answering queries/emails through ZOO’s internal system, ECHO, on a timely basis.
·Dealing with onboarding and maintaining the pool of independent translators and voice talent.
·Collating expense reports and checking receipts.
·Entering invoices for both US and UK entities as required. Setting up new bank templates and assisting in weekly payment runs in various currencies and using different payment methods.
·Assisting with ad-hoc reports as requested.
·Assisting with the monthly UK payroll and the bi-weekly US payroll. Ensuring all payroll month end reports are produced and reconciled as per the month end timetable.
·Oversight and responsibility for monthly reconciliation of key control accounts including all bank reconciliations.
·Responsible for review of Aged Creditors and ensure missing invoices are chased, statements are reconciled, and payments allocated correctly.
·Supporting the Group FC with the annual budget setting process.
·Working as an integral part of the annual audit
·Undertaking quarterly VAT returns
·Raising sales invoices throughout the month (UK and US) and ensuring the correct reports/information are sent to each customer.
·Credit Control across the US and UK. This should be an ongoing process, with reports produced for weekly meetings.
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:
·Ideally be part or fully qualified AAT with good all-round experience in a finance function.
·Ability to organise workload and prioritise to maximum effect
·Flexible approach in a fast-paced business which is constantly changing, keep a clear head under pressure
·Excellent attention to detail when checking information with an ability to recognize and question anomalies
·Keen problem solver who can focus on appropriate detail when solving problems and propose effective solutions
·Willingness to take on a variety of duties as required
·Experience of managing payment runs across multiple entities, countries and currencies an advantage
·Strong communicator with good interpersonal skills
·Excellent Excel and reporting skills
·Proactive with a positive can-do attitude
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;
We value all the folks that make ZOO a great place to work.