JOB DETAILS
Job reference
REQ01241
Date posted
17/09/2025
Application closing date
23/09/2025
Location
Woking
Salary
£30,000 depending on experience
Package
Contractual hours
40
Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Finance
Job description
ABOUT TRAFALGAR ENTERTAINMENT (TE)
We're a leading live-entertainment group with a national and international footprint.
Co-founded by Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire in 2017, Trafalgar Entertainment is a business focussed on bringing people together to share in the live experience; through new productions, through the operation of amazing theatre and live-event spaces, and through distribution of live-streaming content. The group is home to Trafalgar Theatres, Trafalgar Theatre Productions, Trafalgar Releasing, Stagecoach Performing Arts, Drama Kids, Trafalgar Tickets, London Theatre Direct, Stagedoor App, Jonathan Church Theatre Productions and Chiswick Cinema.
** IMMEDIATE START REQUIRED **
Purpose of the role: To deliver the full range of purchase ledger duties to support the role of the Accounts Payable team in the business.
Main duties and responsibilities:
* To post all supplier invoices to the ledgers, ensuring they are matched to purchase orders and receipts.
* Post staff expense claims.
* Produce 2 weekly payment runs ensuring all payments are made within the due dates and for the correct amounts. (a payment run for suppliers and a payment run for settlements).
* Complete supplier statement reconciliations and action any queries.
* Timely identification and resolution of queries with internal staff and external suppliers – involves working closely with venues and buyers.
* Create new supplier accounts ensuring all relevant information is verified and entered correctly onto the system.
* Credit card analysis.
* Answer telephone calls from suppliers.
* Phone internal and external stakeholders to resolve queries timeously.
* Post payments for manual payments timeously (payments made outside of the usual BACS process) and allocate them to the invoices.
* Share responsibility of managing the AP mailbox.
Knowledge & Skills Required
* Good time management skills.
* Ability to multitask, work well under pressure and use initiative.
* Attention to detail.
* Provide cover for colleagues' holidays and sick leave.
* Fill in credit application forms before handing to the AP manager for signing.
* Knowledge of how to clear aging queries.
* Ability to work to deadlines.
* Strong IT skills, fast learner.
* Must have at least 1 year purchase ledger experience.
* Must have experience with 3-way matching (purchase order -> receipt -> invoice)
* Experience of working with more than one ledger will be advantageous as well as experience with high volume of work.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit a CV and Covering Letter as to why you think you are suitable for the role via the Recruitment Portal.
Trafalgar Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from people in groups where we are under-represented, for example people with disabilities, from minority ethnic groups, older returners and people who are neurodivergent.
We are curious, courageous, and ambitious, empowering people to challenge and innovate in pursuit of excellence.