Venue Finance Analyst

The Role

We are looking for a Venue Finance Analyst to support management accounting and business partnering for the Venue department. The role will provide accounting, analytical, and administrative reporting to the Transactional Financial Controller, while assisting on other key finance reporting and compliance areas.

Your day-to-day

• Manage accounts and processes - you will complete the end of day daily reconciliation, reporting, and banking for club level, ticket sales, ticket exchange, membership sales, and booking fees.
• Champion collaboration - you'll effectively partner with the Venue team demonstrating strong communication to ensure financial processes are being effectively followed.
• Monitor department activity - you will assist on refunds, season ticket renewals and sales, preparing VAT receipts, and supporting any touting and fraud investigations.
• Coordinate invoices - you'll oversee visiting teams' invoices for their ticketing allocations to ensure they are generated and paid in a timely manner.
• Provide ongoing support - you'll support administrative analysis, including monthly gate statements to reconcile gate receipts on a match-by-match basis.

What we are looking for

• Background in accounting - you have proven knowledge of accounting practices and principles.
• Proven experience in a similar finance environment - you have experience working in a high transactional reconciliation environment across different products and services, and ideally you have some familiarity with ticketing systems.
• Best-in-class organisational skills - you possess an excellent ability to multi-task and manage a variable and complex workload.
• Excellent attention to detail - you're able to work at pace without compromising accuracy or quality.
• Passion for cross collaboration and an enthusiastic mindset - you have excellent relationship-building skills with the ability to work with a broad range of colleagues, and you take a proactive approach with a genuine curiosity to improve processes.

Why choose us

At Arsenal, we want everyone to feel a sense of trust and belonging, so we are proud of both our club values and what we offer to our employees. As one of our Gunners, you will receive:

• An exciting reward and recognition scheme.
• Generous holiday allowance which increases with your length of service.
• Great internal learning and development programmes.
• A flexible hybrid working model.
• Priority access to apply for match tickets.
• A competitive health and wellbeing benefits package.
• A leading Employee Assistance Programme.
• Great discounts with some of our Partners.

Arsenal for Everyone

Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity, and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family. We believe that diversity of background, skills, and experience drives our success on and off the pitch.

Disability Confident Leader

We are a Disability Confident Leader. We actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.

Application Closing Date - Friday 14th February 2025

Please note: we reserve the right to close the position early if application volumes are particularly high. We encourage you to get your application in sooner rather than later.

Good luck!