Transactional Finance Manager

Beginning with the humble ethos of bringingshipping containers to East London, BOXPARK transformed the space into the world's first pop-up dining and shopping destination in 2011. Fast-forward to 2026 and we have six iconic venues, and BOXPARK has become the biggest food, culture and social hub in London with local communities at its heart.

This is an exciting time to join BOXPARK as we continue to grow our unique hospitality business and make moves in to the events space and international expansion. At our heart we do this be continuing to create magical moments for guests, whether they be in music, sport or culture.

If you enjoy hospitality and feel passionate about making places for people to connect, come and join the team!

You'll report directly to our Financial Controller and you'll have one direct report. You'll lead delivery of the key transactional processes for BOXPARK.

• Accounts Payable

We use LightYear to manage our invoice approval process, you will be responsible for the following:

• Ensuring invoices are processed in LightYear within our SLA, with any issues triaged and all invoices coded correctly.
• Managing the approval process and chasing up unapproved invoices
• Ensuring that approved invoices are exported to Xero regularly and accurately.
• Setting up new suppliers in Xero
• Producing fortnightly payment runs, obtaining approval for these and processing payment. Managing ad-hoc payments as required.
• Regular reconciliation of supplier statements to ensure invoices aren't missing
• Review of our aged creditor reporting
• Handling supplier queries
• User management for Xero and Lightyear, maintaining approval levels
• Tenant turnover payments
• Approximately half of our tenants are on our EPOS system, we collect their takings and pay this out to them each week, net of payments for their rent, utilities etc.
• You will be responsible for running this process weekly and ensuring tenants are paid accurately and on time.
• Accounts Receivable:
• The remainder of our food tenants and all retail tenants are on their own EPOS systems.
• You will be responsible for ensuring these tenants are invoiced correctly in line with their leases. Where tenants are subject to turnover rentals, you will be responsible for collecting the relevant sales information from the tenants.
• In addition there is regular invoicing for third party sponsorships, advertising, events promoters and corporate activities. You will ensure all are invoiced in a timely manner and correctly, in line with the feed-in business processes.
• For all debtors you will run our end-to-end collection activities, from automated chasers through passing to debt collection agencies.
• You will monitor the ageing position and propose bad debt provisions to the Financial Controller for approval.
• Employee expenses
• SAP concur (our expenses system) user set up
• Validation of claims and processing for payment
• Reconciliation of employee credit cards and chasing for support where required
• Cash reconciliations
• Oversight of bank reconciliation on a daily basis, liaising with HSBC on any unknown transactions
• Business Rates
• Our business rates position is complex given the trader relationships. You will be responsible for managing our rates liabilities on a monthly/quarterly basis given changes in the tenant occupancy position.
• Other
• Assist senior finance team with ad hoc requests
• Produce our daily cash report, sharing with our exec and detailing key movements in the balance and upcoming payments
• Joint responsibility for weekly cashflow forecasting, and managing our payment runs in line with that forecast

We're an ever changing organisation, always trying new things, so that ability to adapt to a changing landscape and continuously improve our processes is critical.

Candidate Requirements:

• Experience using Xero (required)
• Qualified Accountant with a UK recognized body (desired) or in training (essential)
• Experience managing both Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable in high volume situations (required)
• HSBCNet experience (desired)
• Lightyear experience (desired)
• BACS18 payment run knowledge (desired)
• Demonstrable process improvement experience (desired)

Benefits:

• Simply Health cover (cash payment plan)
• 25 days plus bank holidays, which increases with service
• Season ticket travel loans
• Monthly team drinks!