Application Deadline: 28 September 2025
Department: Operations - Finance & Commercial
Employment Type: Full Time
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
