Assistant Accountant
Description
About Goat
Goat is a social media marketing agency powered by influencers. Goat prides itself on bringing together data-led performance, real human relationships, expert creative strategy, authentic engaging content, and laser-sharp paid media targeting.
About the role
Goat is looking for a new hire to support the US finance team as the business continues to grow and change following its acquisition by GroupM. This role’s main focus is on the smooth processing of day to day finance activities for the US unit across AP, AR, monthly reporting and payroll. This is a wide ranging and expansive role, with plenty of opportunity for growth for the right candidate as Goat continues to integrate into the GroupM/WPP ecosystem.
Requirements
- B.A in accounting or similar major preferred
- Minimum 1 year of professional accounting experience
- Proficient with excel, including pivot tables, SUMIFS, and VLOOKUP
- Knowledge of GAAP
- Experience across day to day finance, potentially including processing of AR, AP, banking transactions and tax compliance.
- Experience supporting month end reporting on a relatively short timescale.
- Good attention to detail
- Interest in supporting senior members of the finance team with ad hoc information/requests
Skills:
- Experience of either Sage50 or MediaOcean ERPs
- Working towards a CPA is nice to have but not required.
Responsibilities:
- Processing of Client/Intercompany invoices, and the initial management of credit control process, including chasing of Trade Debtors and posting/matching of cash receipts
- Support on the processing of supplier setup, PO requests and purchase invoice approvals.
- Support the processing of bi-monthly payroll
- Processing of weekly supplier payment runs, including running and reviewing system reports and uploading to banking platforms.
- Preparation of bank reconciliations for US Bank accounts, including dealing with foreign currency revaluations.
- Supporting with monthly account reconciliations as required by the US finance manager
- Supporting on administration of tax compliance and fillings (such as collation of W9s/W8s to support 1099 filing)
- Management of the monthly intercompany reconciliation process with other GroupM/WPP entities.
- Supporting the wider Goat US team and the wider finance team with ad hoc queries as required.
Culture and Benefits:
- Regular social events and ongoing clubs
- $250 grant to make your working from home set up comfortable
- Provided MacBook laptop to work from
- Flexi-hours
- Remote working
- Health and wellbeing allowance after one year of employment
- Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
- 401k
- One day of additional PTO for every year you’re at The Goat Agency up to five years
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The base salary for this position at the time of this posting is $60,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, please visit https://www.wpp.com/people/wellbeing/benefits-at-wpp-in-the-us for more details.