Application Deadline: 28 September 2025
Department: Operations - Finance & Commercial
Location: New York
Compensation: $70,000 - $90,000 / year
Description
We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive
Commercial Finance Assistant to support our New York and Detroit offices. This role is ideal for someone with around
2 years of relevant financial processing experience (or equivalent transferable skills) who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
As part of Imagination’s close-knit finance team, you will play a key role in managing invoices, expenses, reconciliations, and vendor payments, ensuring that financial processes run smoothly and accurately. You’ll also support our Financial Controller and Finance Commercial Lead with reporting and provide day-to-day assistance to project managers across the business.
At Imagination, our
Beliefs & Behaviours —
Respect, Rigour, Creativity, and Bravery — guide how we work. We value curiosity, accuracy, and collaboration, and we’re looking for someone who shares these qualities.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Processing- Enter and process daily invoices and match invoices to purchase orders
- Manage employee expense reports and corporate credit card reconciliations
- Prepare weekly payment runs and invoice approval reminders
- Support month-end reporting and job cost reallocations
Vendor & Supplier Management- Set up new vendors and manage vendor records
- Prepare and process intercompany and employee recharge invoices
- Liaise with suppliers, freelancers, and partners to ensure accurate and timely payments
Team & System Support- Provide support to project managers, account teams, and the finance function with job openings, timesheets, and reconciliations
- Ideally, you’ll have experience using a finance or business management system (such as Maconomy, SAP, Oracle, or similar) to process invoices, track expenses, or manage project time
- Manage office supplies and ad hoc administrative tasks
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Around 2 years of experience in financial processing, accounting support, or a similar role (or equivalent transferable experience)
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail, with a proactive approach to problem-solving
- Effective communication skills for working with colleagues, suppliers, and partners across multiple locations
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Curiosity and willingness to learn about diverse projects, tax jurisdictions, and vendor relationships
- Advantageous but not required: experience with finance management systems (e.g., Maconomy), or prior experience in a creative or agency environment
Benefits
What we can offer you:- Work with a state-of-the-art product and deliver it to exciting and innovative brands
- Learning and development opportunities that contribute to professional growth
- A fun, engaging work culture
- Be part of a mission-driven team that values agility, integrity, and excellence
- Opportunity to contribute to large-scale, high-impact projects from day one
Benefits and perks offered:
- Comprehensive paid time off benefits
- Hybrid work model, where our team comes into the office a minimum of 3 days per week
- Generous parental leave
- Up to 4% safe harbor company 401k match
- Comprehensive, low-cost health benefits
Imagination:
Imagination is The Original Experience Design Agency. Founded over 50 years ago, we apply the power of our collective imagination to creative, commercial, and cultural challenges, creating experiences that move people. We specialise in Consulting, Destinations, Content and Live Events.
We have 13 global studios worldwide, united by a deep understanding of what moves people on a human level, and a determinedly independent spirit. Imagination was officially certified as a Newsweek Most Loved Workplace® 2023.
Our clients include Major League Baseball, Visa, Amazon, Ford, LVMH, Harley-Davidson, and Google.
For more information, please visit imagination.com or follow @imaginationglbl on social.
Our Beliefs and Behaviours:
We have identified four foundational beliefs that underpin Imagination. More powerful than generic corporate values, they motivate us to act, to foster the behaviours that lead to success:
We believe curiosity is the root of original insights and ideas... so we look at the world with fresh eyes, we experiment, invent and up-end conventions.
We believe rigour results in better choices... so we ask precise, provocative questions.
We believe bravery tames the unknown... so we demand ambition, confident that together we can meet ‘never been done before challenges’.
We believe respect builds stronger teams and continued success... so we recognise the uniqueness and unique potential in each individual, we are accountable to each other, we play as a team.
Global Inclusivity Statement:
At Imagination we value diversity, equity and inclusion as principles that make us stronger, more innovative and more creative as an organisation.
As a team and a business we know that creativity thrives in teams and organisations that comprise diverse groups of people, embracing diverse perspectives, where people feel able to share their whole selves.
That’s why we are committed to fostering an environment where every individual, regardless of race, religion, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, neurodiversity, socio-economic background, or indigenous identity, feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed.
Our Beliefs and Behaviours
By living our core behaviours, being
curious, rigorous, brave and
respectful, we remain dedicated to building a workplace and a world where everyone is seen, heard, and has the opportunity to thrive.
Curiosity sparks innovation - We seek out diverse perspectives, challenge assumptions, and embrace new ways of thinking.
Rigour ensures impact - We approach our work with discipline and dedication, ensuring that these beliefs are not just words, but lived experiences.
Bravery stands up for what’s right - We confront biases and advocate for progress.
Respect is fundamental - We foster and encourage open dialogue and challenge ideas constructively.
Our Commitment
We expect our team to actively foster a safe, empowering, and inclusive culture. Our commitment extends beyond our workforce to our partners and suppliers, who we hold to the same standards of inclusivity and non-discrimination.
