Destination Sport Group
Finance Assistant - 12 Month Placement
This is a hybrid role based in our Manchester office, so you must live within a commutable distance
Destination Sport Group is a global leader in sports travel, offering a comprehensive range of services to teams, organisations, governing bodies, and fans worldwide. Offering a best-in-class solution and tailored approach across multiple sports travel verticals, the Destination Sport Group comprises seven market-leading divisions covering travel management for elite sports organisations, fan travel experiences, VIP travel and hospitality programmes, tours for grassroots organisations and mass-participation event travel. https://destinationsport.com/
We are now excited to announce the launch of our Finance Assistant – 12-month placement role. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic, forward-thinking Finance team and to develop your skills as a Finance Operations Assistant getting exposure to all areas of Finance Operations including Billing, Purchase Ledger, Credit Collection, Banking and Treasury, across multiple divisions.
Our 12 month placement is designed to provide you with real industry scenarios and develop your current skills by putting your theory learnt at university into practice. You’ll be given real-life projects to work on and enjoy top level development and networking opportunities within our fast-growing and international organisation. You’ll truly learn from the best in the business by working closely with individuals with a wealth of knowledge and experience who can guide you through your year with us.
As part of your placement role, you will work with our finance team and learn about the systems and processes required to:
* Raise invoices for our clients and produce statement of accounts
* Raise invoices for commission purposes to suppliers/venues
* Minimise errors and resolve any outstanding queries to ensure profitability is maximised
* Complete a full reconciliation of credit card spend to ensure charges match what is billed
* Collate appropriate data and distribute to relevant parties to enable effective invoicing
* Accurately maintain the AR, AP & General Ledger ensuring that detailed accounts can be processed
* Liaise with external suppliers and internal divisions to ensure the timely raising of customer invoices
* Generate and store daily reports to show daily banking activity / day end processes
* Reconcile deposits with the system against banking reports
* Prepare any ad hoc/manual payments within the banking system
* Verify and execute any approvals to ensure bank payments are released
* Reconcile bank statements / credit card statements
* Proactively chase customers to ensure invoices are recovered in a timely fashion
* Recover outstanding debts through relevant collection methods via email and telephone
* Reconcile large volumes of data to understand which transactions are in query or overdue
* Document any queries within the finance system and maintain the progression of those queries
* Improve interactions with internal and external customers to strengthen key relationships
* Investigate and resolve internal credit card queries
* Reconcile supplier statements
* Ensure all payments are processed in a timely manner in line with payment terms
* Produce weekly payment runs
* Deal with invoice queries
* Develop your understanding of financial reporting, processing profit and loss reconciliations and balance sheets
* Escalate any queries to senior members of the team where required
* Assist with month end close process
Our Benefits:
* A real living wage salary at £24,636 Per Annum
* 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
* An additional days leave for your birthday
* Hybrid working model
* Pension Contribution
* Full training and support provided throughout your placement
* Regular check-ins with other placement students across the business
* Free eye tests and discounted glasses with Specsavers
* Free flu jabs
* All IT equipment provided
* Access to discounted hotels & sporting events
* Access to our lifestyle benefits portal that gives you access to various discounts including: Gym and fitness discounts, Cycle to work scheme, Free ‘My Possible Self’ wellbeing app, retail and holiday discounts and Care First Employee Assistance Programme - providing you with practical information, emotional support and counselling available 24/7.
To be eligible for our placement year, you must:
* Be currently studying a relevant university course
* Be able to confirm with your university that you are eligible to carry out a 12 month placement as part of your course
* Have the relevant right to work in the UK (unfortunately we cannot provide sponsorship for placement students)
* Be happy to work from our Manchester, UK head office
* Be ready to start the placement between June - September 2025
To be successful within this role, our ideal candidate will:
* Demonstrate excellent attention to detail with the ability to work with large amounts of data
* Show a genuine interest in Accounts and Finance with the desire to develop their career
* Be computer literate with strong IT Skills, in particular Microsoft Office packages including Excel
* Be committed to the placement training programme, with a willingness to develop and learn new skills
* Be a strong problem solver with the desire to seek information and create a solution
* Be enthusiastic and excited to learn from the existing team
* Possess excellent communication skills both written and verbal
* Demonstrate strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and multitask
* Have a proactive approach to the role and its tasks, ask questions and learn from the wider finance team
* Be dedicated to completing home study as and when required
* Be confident in an office environment, with excellent customer service skills and the ability to communicate to both internal and external stakeholders
So if you are looking for your next challenge, please get in touch we'd love to hear from you!
Application Deadline - Friday 2nd May however we reserve the right to close the role early once we receive a suitable amount of candidates.
#J-18808-Ljbffr