Location: Manchester, GB
Opening Date: 24 Sep 2024
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date of Applications: 08/10/24
Our Story
Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.
Our Winning Team
Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.
In this role your main focus will be the reviewing and first level approval of all requisitions and credit card requests submitted by the UK business, ensuring company expense requests are accurately prepared. You’ll work closely with other functions of the Finance team to gain an understanding of budgeted spend, along with providing general support to the Senior Processing Manager and the rest of the Processing team.
This is Your City
As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.
Your Impact
1. Accuracy of Requisitions: Consistent diligence to ensure all requisitions are hitting the relevant GL codes, including that a detailed description of spend is provided. A strong degree of professional scepticism is required, with any unusual or unexpected requests being escalated to departments and/or finance management.
2. Credit Card Spend: Consistent diligence to ensure all credit card transactions are hitting the relevant GL codes, and that detailed description of spend is provided.
3. Reporting: Provide reporting on volumes of requisition submissions and credit card transactions.
4. Balance Sheets: Maintain and manage any allocated balance sheets, preparing leadsheets for monthly review.
5. Support the wider business: Providing support to the business offering guidance on how to submit requisitions in the Finance system, how to code the requisitions accordingly, and to track the workflow approvals to encourage self-service.
6. Supporting Senior Processing Manager: Support with ad-hoc tasks as required as well as continuously striving to make the role more efficient by improving processes.
What we are looking for
* Experience in a fast-paced Finance department
* Strong attention to detail
* Self-motivated
* Experience of Agresso/Unit4 ERP Business World
* Desire to continue professional development
City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.
Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.
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