Financial Accountant

Reporting initially to the Head of Financial and Operational Excellence, you will be the senior member of a lean team of Financial Accountants providing operational support to the business alongside contributing to the month end close process. You will be comfortable making data assisted decisions, have an AI curious mindset, drive continuous improvement to existing processes within the team while maintaining operational excellence, and provide support and guidance to junior team members.

Your Day-to-day:

• Bank reconciliations & relationship management – ownership of the more complex weekly and monthly bank reconciliations completed accurately in line with month end timelines.
• Manage the relationship with the reconciliation provider (Aurum) to ensure any automation rules or aspects of the reconciliation process are optimised within the team.
• Ownership of the creditor ledger – understand any aged or debit balances, proactively work to resolve issues and report back to the Reporting team on the status of these.
• Identify and resolve outstanding outputs – through the work done within bank reconciliations, work with the Supplier Payments team to ensure all statements are completed appropriately and are recognised within the ledger accurately.
• Ownership of the company credit cards – liaise with employees on spend, limit changes and requirements ensuring that appropriate records are maintained.
• Review of invoice creation – ensure that invoices are recorded accurately and distributed in a timely manner.
• Manage Tourist board and Flight incentive debtors providing regular updates to the reporting team.
• Ownership of other balance sheet reconciliations – ensuring reconciliations are accurate and completed in a timely manner.

Your Skillset:

• Innovative Mindset – naturally curious, seeking opportunities to test new ideas and passionate about how technology and AI can revolutionise finance.
• Accountability – comfortable being the face of finance for certain operational activities, proactive in seeking and providing feedback to drive continuous improvement and tracking progress to resolve issues.
• Attention to Detail – high attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate work efficiently within a strong control environment.
• Efficiency – proven ability to produce high‑quality results in a fast‑paced and agile working environment.
• Coaching – comfortable providing support and guidance to more junior team members to aid their development and ensure high standards are maintained.
• Customer‑driven – trusted partner for employees, addressing challenges independently while maintaining the relationship.
• Part Qualified with industry experience.

Desirable:

• G Suite experience
• Experience working in the tech / travel sector
• Experience with Zone Capture
• Experience with NetSuite

Perks Of Joining Us:

• Company pension contributions at 5 %.
• Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up.
• Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends.
• 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum of 30 days per annum.
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave.
• Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.