Closing date: 21st July 2016

Fixed Term Contract, six months starting ideally in August

Marylebone Cricket Club (“MCC”) is the world’s most active cricket club, custodian of the laws of cricket and is also the owner of Lord’s Ground, affectionately known as the ‘Home of Cricket’.  Lord’s is renowned worldwide for staging international cricket matches with up to 30,000 spectators in attendance each day.  With an annual income of around £50m MCC has over 250 employees, supported by an additional 1,200 casual workers during international matches.

MCC is part way through a £25m project to rebuild the Warner Stand as part of a larger £250m masterplan to redevelop the facilities at Lord’s.

An opportunity has arisen for an Accounts Payable and Finance Assistant to join the core Financial Accounting team on a fixed term contract for six months within the Finance Department.

Required skills and experience

The successful candidate will be able to work logically, accurately and with attention to detail and have prior experience of working in a Financial Accounting environment. An ability to demonstrate honesty and reliability when handling cash and a capacity to be able to work with large volumes of data are essential.

Understanding of basic accounting concepts is vital as is intermediate excel skills and ideally demonstrable experience of working with MS Dynamics (Great Plains) accounting system.

The candidate needs to be happy working within a team environment and be able to problem solve and resolve issues in a calm and professional manner. 

Please click here to view the full job description for this role.

Values and behaviours

In line with the MCC’s Values, you will demonstrate:

•     A positive and proactive approach to all elements of the role
•     Responsibility for your own actions and outputs
  
•     Demonstrate respect and courtesy to MCC’s staff and visitors
  
•     Promote teamwork by supporting others and sharing knowledge
  
•     Deliver high quality work and service in a timely manner
  

Skills and ability testing will form part of the selection process

To apply please click here and provide your CV and a covering letter, stating salary expectations.

Closing date: 09:00 Thursday 21st July 2016

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