About the role
Do you have experience working in a fast paced Finance department?
Are you an excellent multi-tasker with great prioritisation skills?
Are you looking to join a business that is financially stable with very exciting expansion plans?
If so, then look no further!
The Why...
Join Hollywood Bowl Group as our Accounts Payable Assistant, in return you'll get:
- Access to our Electric Vehicle scheme
- 22 days holiday + additional days with length of service
- 50% off food when you are working in centres
- Optional pension plan
- Ongoing training and development with access to development programmes and apprenticeship schemes
- Free games vouchers every month
- 30% discount off food and drink for you and up to five friends
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family
- Opportunity to join our healthcare cash plan
- Financial long service awards
- A £15 donation to our charity partner when you complete your induction
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave benefits
The What...
Supporting the accounts payable team with the general operation of the accounts payable department to ensure that daily, weekly and monthly tasks relating to Purchase Ledger, Banking and Sales Ledger are completed on time and to a high standard.
The responsibilities of the role includes:
- Coordinating the purchase ledger process to ensure that suppliers are paid promptly and correctly. This will include scanning and coding of invoices, monitoring the invoice approval process, query resolution and the periodic review of the aged creditors listing.
- Ensuring Acquire (procurement system) imports and queries, including credit requests, are dealt with on a daily basis.
- Communication with centres to ensure approval process of invoices are dealt with in a timely manner.
- Assisting the team in dealing with invoices and queries sent to the Accounts Payable mailbox.
- Assisting in processing employee expense claims via the online expenses system.
- Assisting in processing customer refunds in a timely manner.
- Reconciling monthly supplier statements.
- Dealing with telephone and email queries from customers and suppliers in an efficient and professional manner.
- Carrying out general office administration including filing, photocopying, scanning and dealing with incoming and outgoing post and any ad hoc duties.
To be successful, you'll have:
- Good organisation skills, including the ability to multi-task and prioritise.
- Previous experience of working in a busy Finance Department and processing high volume of invoices.
- Knowledge of invoice scanning systems.
- Ability to communicate on all levels both verbally and in writing.
- Proficiency in MS Word and Excel to intermediate level.
- Experience of using a computerised accounting package.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Ability to identify and implement process improvements.
The Who...
Hollywood Bowl Group has a passion for bringing families and friends together for affordable fun and healthy competition.
Following our listing on the main stock market in 2016 we became Hollywood Bowl Group, seeking out the perfect locations for our bowling and golf centres nationwide. We formed our customer proposition, built on real feedback, and went from strength to strength with our in-centre game technology and online scoring systems.
Now with over 75 centres across the UK, operating under the Hollywood Bowl and Puttstars brands, we’re proud to be ambitious market leaders in experiential family entertainment.
We continue to expand our estate and look for profitable opportunities to grow, with an average of three new sites opening each year.
At Hollywood Bowl Group, we value diversity and inclusion, and we’re committed to creating a working environment that promotes equal opportunities. Individual differences and the contributions of all employees are recognised and valued and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company.
