Finance Assistant

**TITLE OF POSITION**:Finance Assistant

**REPORTS TO**:Finance Manager

**OFFICE LOCATION**:Auckland, New Zealand

**CONTRACT TYPE**:Permanent

**ROLE OVERVIEW**

The Finance Assistant plays a crucial role in supporting the finance team with day-to-day operations, ensuring financial accuracy, compliance, and

efficiency. Reporting to the Finance Manager, this role is integral to maintaining the smooth operation of the finance function, contributing to the wider

STH NZ team's success. Through meticulous financial management, the Finance Assistant will help streamline processes, enhance accuracy, and

support the delivery of premium sporting event experiences.

**MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- **Transaction Processing**:Perform accurate day-to-day processing of financial transactions, including payments, receipts, and

reconciliations, ensuring the finance function operates efficiently.
- **Bank Reconciliation**:Reconcile bank statements with financial records to ensure all transactions are accounted for and discrepancies are

resolved promptly, contributing to accurate financial reporting.
- **Accounts Payable and Receivable**:Process invoices, monitor overdue accounts, and coordinate collections to maintain healthy cash flow

and compliance with financial timelines.
- **Credit Control**:Proactively reduce overdue invoices by monitoring customer accounts and following up on outstanding payments, providing

weekly updates to the wider team to improve debt management.
- **Corporate Card Expense Management**:Record and monitor company card expenses, ensuring adherence to company policies and

enabling accurate tracking of financial outflows.
- **Monthly Reporting**:Support the finance team with accurate financial reporting by performing month-end reconciliations, preparing

accruals, and processing payroll data to meet compliance and deadline requirements.
- **Sales Ledger Management**:Reconcile sales data and maintain the sales ledger to ensure accurate reporting, timely invoicing, and

efficient payment processing for revenue optimisation.
- **Audit and Compliance**:Assist in internal and external audit processes by organizing and providing required documentation, ensuring

adherence to financial regulations and standards.
- **Administrative Support**:Provide general administrative assistance to the finance team and broader STH NZ team, ensuring smooth

operations and collaborative success.

**KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
- **Finance Operations**:Proven experience in finance-related roles, demonstrating proficiency in transaction processing, reconciliation, and

credit control.
- **Accounting Systems Expertise**:Skilled in using accounting software (e.g., Xero, SAP) and Microsoft Excel to ensure efficient and

accurate financial processes.
- **Regulatory Understanding**:Solid understanding of accounting principles, compliance, and audit requirements, ensuring adherence to

financial best practices.

**DESIREABLE COMPETNCIES**
- **Attention to Detail**:Highly organised and detail-oriented, ensuring accuracy in financial data and reporting.
- **Adaptability and Initiative**:Proactive and flexible, capable of learning new systems and handling a dynamic workload effectively.
- **Collaborative Communicator**:Excellent communication skills, fostering strong relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders.

**WHO WE ARE**

STH Group is a Sodexo Live company, with offices in London, Auckland and Melbourne, enabling a truly global reach and service offering.

Our Company partners with event owners to make the biggest sporting events in the world - even better From the Olympic Games in London and

Tokyo, the Cricket World Cup in England & Wales to the Rugby World Cups in Japan, England, New Zealand and France, our award-winning team

cover the globe to create travel and hospitality programmes with one simple ambition - to leave sports fans knowing they have just been part of an

experience of a lifetime

At STH, you **belong to something greater;**our experiences are unique and so are our people. Bring personality, your background, and your desire

for delighting others; in return we'll give you all you need to thrive. Through joining STH, you will be part ofan inclusive and driven culture, that

focuses on collective success and empowerment; we thrive of making the memorable, unforgettable for thousands of global sporting fans. We

champion the ethos of the sports teams we represent and ensure our culture is one that is opportunity driven, both for the customers we serve - and

the people who make them possible

**WHAT WE STAND FOR**

STH Group identify the below values as fundamental commitments for every member of our team. Like the athletes we admire and connect with fans,

we use these as our guiding compass in everything that we do, which supports a “one-team” mentality, culture-code and aligned directive.
- **Service Spirit**:We are customer obsessed, encouraging our teams to anticipate expectations a