Bookkeeper

Descripción del puesto

Bookkeeper — Lab54 Location: London. All 3 days in office for the first three months. From month 4, 1 day per week remote once the agreed targets are being met. Shape: Part-time, 3 days per week. Permanent or contract — both considered. Salary: £30–34k FTE equivalent, pro-rata (£18–20.5k at 3 days). Contract equivalent £150–200 per day. Reports to: Financial Controller (interim: Managing Director) Start: As soon as available About Lab54 Lab54 is a content-led events and production company: [Anywhere But A Club.] We create high-impact experiences in unexpected locations, capture them, and turn them into content. Combined global audience of 425,000+. We work with brands, record labels and artists — around 100 events a year across brand activations, artist pop-ups, hard-ticket shows, house parties and festival takeovers. The role The Bookkeeper is Lab54's day-to-day finance function: reconciliation, purchase-order matching, receipt capture, invoicing, debtor chasing and payroll preparation. The defining feature of the job is that every pound has to land against an event. Lab54's core financial object isn't the month — it's the project. Each event carries a code (YYMM-Owner-Event-City) that runs from HubSpot through Xero, Teamwork and the purchase-order flow. Coding transactions to that project is not admin; it's the thing that makes per-event profitability computable. It is the single most important part of this role. This role prepares, never approves. All payment runs are approved by the Managing Director, with the CEO approving above an agreed threshold. Responsibilities Purchase orders and supplier ledger Match supplier invoices to their purchase order in Xero. This is a manual link, and it is the control that stops us paying more than we agreed. Enforce the PO rule at the front door: any commitment of £500 or more needs a PO, and an invoice arriving without a PO number goes back to the supplier rather than into the ledger. Prepare payment runs for approval. Nothin