Finance Apprentice, Warner Bros Discovery
ITVP
£24.6k
Office located in Old Street, London
Entertainment company
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Entertainment company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£24.6k
Office located in Old Street, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- Our apprenticeship positions are designed to be an alternative to university education, therefore we are only seeking applications from people who have not already graduated from university with a degree
- Good communication skills and ability to build relationships with production teams and colleagues in finance
- Basic to intermediate Excel skills
- An interest in pursuing a career in finance
- An interest in learning accounting software
- Experience of using accounting software, ideally including JP and SAP, beneficial but not essential
- Previous exposure to Accounts Payable beneficial but not essential
What the job involves
- To process sales and purchase invoices accurately and generate payment runs in a timely manner for Wall to Wall, Twenty Twenty and Warner Bros TV Production UK Ltd
- Other duties include bank reconciliation, credit card, production cash floats and petty cash expenses, and other accounting duties to keep the account departments running smoothly
- Make sure suppliers are set up on the system
- Raising Purchase Orders for corporate Invoices
- Coding of corporate invoices, rejecting PO’s which have been raised but not matched
- Matching Invoices to PO on the system
- Liaising with production staff
- To ensure invoices or new credit / Equals cards are approved by the correct signatories
- Creating BACS file in JP
- Making BACS payment using Barclays.net
- Other Payment such as Int’l
- Posting of the payment Journals
- Assisting Vendors with account queries
- Reviewing supplier statements
- Reconciling the AP Ledger
- Raising Sales invoices in SAP
- Reconciling the debtors accounts
- Chasing up outstanding invoices
- Maintaining the payment schedule table
- Reconciling all production/development/corporate bank accounts
- Ordering of credit cards
- Cancellation of credit cards
- Sending out credit cards statement and chasing up the expenses from the card holders
- Processing expense claims for production and corporate staff
- Ensure proper sign off and matching of claim form to receipts
- Checking treatment of VAT
- Posting petty cash journals on JP or SAP
- Assist in posting the post production journals on a monthly basis
- Filing of accounting documents
- Purchase invoices
- Sales invoices (electronically)
- Petty cash by productions
- Credit cards by entities
- Assisting the production team with any accounts queries
- Covering when team members are on annual leave
- Start Date: August / September 2025
- End Date: March 2027
- Qualification: Level 3 AAT Apprenticeship
- You will gain hands-on experience working on business-critical projects
- You will have access to personal and professional development courses, executive speakers’ series, special screenings and more
- You will be part of our Early Talent network of over 100 interns & apprentices, meaning you will have an important support network of other students, graduates and apprentices and plenty of opportunities to socialise!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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