Accounts & Office Assistant

Accounts & Office Assistant – Adoption Leave cover (3.5 month contract with possible extension), commencing January 2027

MACHINESHOP are on the hunt for a brilliantly organised and detail-oriented Accounts & Office Assistant to support our small but extremely busy team during our CFO’s Adoption Leave.

If you’ve previously worked in office-based admin & finance support roles ideally within the film/tv/ad or related industries, we are very keen to hear from you. If you have experience in production, great – it’s not a requirement but will definitely help with your overall understanding of the type of work that we do.

Duties will include…

• Assisting our Office Manager with finance and admin support; logging, digitising and filing receipts and invoices, processing freelancer paperwork, chasing timesheets & invoices, raising sales invoices and chasing payments.

• All standard office duties, including answering phones & the door, helping our team to look after visitors, booking couriers, purchasing etc.

• Supporting the wider team and just generally lending a hand with projects or equipment hires, as needed.

Our special someone will…

• Have a love of spreadsheets and all things organisational
• Already have experience using Sage Accounts or another similar software
• Be excited at the prospect of working somewhere completely unconventional
• Be happy and fulfilled working in an office support role
• Be great at multi-tasking
• Have a super sense of humour
• Will to get involved and support as needed

Hours: 8am-4:30pm, Monday to Friday.

Location: MACHINESHOP, 180 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NH

Salary: £32k (pro-rata)

Contract: Full-time STC, 3.5 months duration with the possibility of extension

Start date: January 2027

About us:

MACHINESHOP specialises in the design, fabrication and operation of in-camera practical special effects, rigs, modelmaking and animatronics for screen, stage and beyond. Our team are quite brilliant and a little bit mad, we work hard but we have a lot of fun and create some truly amazing stuff. In an industry which can often leave people feeling overworked and unappreciated, we pride ourselves on being Employee-Owned which means that staff and freelancer welfare is always at the centre of our decision-making.

Come and work with us, we’re great

CV’s / cover letters / bribes all gratefully received at [email protected]