Accounts Payable Specialist

WME have a great opportunity for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join the team in Milan.

The Role

Main Responsibilities

• Receive and codify electronic vendor invoices via dedicated platform
• Manage vendors database (being able to give information to the Vendor Master Data team, and set up Vendors in time-efficient way)
• Analyse contracts and related expense reports
• As per the Accounts Payable perimeter, keep the monthly accounting records for the processing of balance sheets and other financial statements
• Support Monthly closing (capable of making accruals and verifying the status of prepaid expenses and invoices received, extracting information and reconciliation in complete autonomy)
• Bank Reconciliation for payments and collections posting
• Accounting management of Vendors payment requests to support weekly Cash-Flow (advance payments, payments due, exchange rate difference reconciliation, etc.)
• VAT, LIPE, Esterometro, Intrastat declarations (qualified to prepare declarations in complete autonomy) General-Ledger accounting (fit to perform accruals and giro account of postings)
• Support Clients accounting (ready to support accounting while request giro account of postings)
• WTH and FATCA declarations (previous experience with US tax requirements)
• T&E expense analysis (accounting correctness and rules observing)

Technical Skills

• Skilled SAP and MS Excel Experienced user (will be requested to manage reports that contain intermediate level formulas, and to extract information crossing various sources)
• Knowledge of CRM tools (previous experience with CRM tools is highly requested to be able to use the tool to extract information and make the adequate checks)

You Have These

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, Finance and Control, or similar
• Tax/Statutory Advisor/ Chartered Accountant firm experience preferred
• +5 years of all-around accounting experience in small/medium companies
• Fluent Italian and English (must-have)
• Quick Learner, Self-Starter, Communication, Proactivity, Helpfulness, Team player

How We Work:

WME Group is at the center of sports, media, entertainment, and fashion and is a largely relationship-based business. To foster an environment of collaboration, develop our future talent, and build on relationships across leadership, peers, and teams, we work from the office 4 days per week. We see immeasurable value internally and throughout the core of the businesses we support.

WME Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that encourages applications from qualified, eligible candidates from all backgrounds and life experiences regardless of race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.