Accounts Receivable Specialist

Frieze is the world’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art, dedicated to artists, galleries, collectors and art lovers alike. Frieze comprises three magazines – frieze, Frieze Masters Magazine and Frieze Week – and seven international art fairs – Frieze London, Frieze Masters, Frieze New York, Frieze Los Angeles, Frieze Seoul, The Armory Show and EXPO Chicago. Legacy art fair brands The Armory Show and EXPO Chicago were acquired by Frieze in September 2023.

In October 2021, Frieze also launched No.9 Cork Street, a permanent space for visiting international galleries in the heart of Mayfair, London.

Management Accountants - Events

The Strand, London

Immediately available through to the end of 2025

The role’s primary focus is to manage the sales process across the Events business, ensuring Accounts Receivable (AR) and Credit Control for these areas works efficiently and that the Events team is supported in managing the statutory requirements of 3 legal entities, assisting with preparing management accounts and performing controls operations for these areas.

Key to your success will be effectively managing WNS, our outsource partner. WNS process payments, perform the data entry side role of AR and prepare the bank recs. You will also need to develop close working relationships with the whole finance team, as well as interacting daily with the wider business

• Managing the sales ledger process for three legal entities.
• AR: responsible for customer creation, billing, reconciliations, and credit control in coordination with outsourced transactional partner WNS
• Assist with monthly accounts reconciliations and weekly bank reconciliations where WNS require assistance
• Assists with control requirements
• Assist with cash flow planning
• Assist with the preparation of internal business partner packs and trackers
• General accounting tasks to support the team

• Extensive credit control experience, able to evidence successful collections processes with examples
• AR billing and reconciliation
• A confident communicator, able to interact with customers and vendors via both written and verbal forms of communication
• Strong teamwork and communication skills
• Self-starter and quick learner with high attention to details/ability to spot errors
• Proactive in problem solving with a can-do attitude
• Confident using MS Office and intermediate user of MS Excel

Frieze unites people inourlove of the arts. We understand this can only beaccomplishedwhen we harness the entirety of our company andleadwith a lensofdiversity, equity,andinclusionin everything we do.

As a global company thatdrivesculture, we are committed to practicing anti-discriminationincludingrace, gender identity, sexual orientation,and disability, together with artists, writers, and cultural practitioners from all backgrounds.

There is still much work to be done to address systemic inequality and discrimination within the arts and culture industry, and we are dedicated to making progresstoboth within our own organization and the art world at large.