Finance Assistant

Closing Date of Applications - 24/06/2025

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.

This position is an imperative role in the Finance department as part of the processing team, specifically the accounts payable, accounts receivable, and expenses functions, to provide administrative support across City Football Group. The role is task focused on the provision of accurate and timely administrative support; therefore the role holder will need to be a self-motivated and attentive individual who can follow clearly laid out processes and be able to manage their own time and tasks within a fast paced and ever-growing environment.

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. Provide administrative support to the business by managing the accounts payable and accounts receivable inboxes; processing invoices in a timely manner to ensure payments are made on time; raising invoices to customers; chasing any debt due to the business to support incoming cashflow; and processing employee expenses and credit card requests

2. Provide information to stakeholders in a friendly and courteous manner in order to build professional relationships and promote a helpful and efficient service, as well as working closely with the rest of the processing team.

3. Use, maintain, and cleanse relevant internal systems to support workflow, in particular supplier and customer ledger reconciliations, and providing change recommendations to drive continuous improvement. Additionally, use of relevant business systems to deliver straightforward analysis when requested.

4. Supporting the Processing Manager with any adhoc tasks and projects.

What we are looking for

Essential

• Self-motivated with a keen eye for detail
• Best practice accounts payable procedures
• Best practice accounts receivable procedures
• Knowledge of accounting for VAT
• Experience in a fast paced Finance department
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work as a team

Desirable

• Experience of Agresso/Unit4 ERP