Finance Assistant

Description:

If you're looking for an opportunity to develop your career as a Finance Assistant, read on!

NOTE: This is a 7-month fixed-term contract.

This Finance Assistant role will provide a breadth of exposure and the opportunity to gain lots of experience in a fast-paced and exciting company that is restructuring and strengthening its finance team.

You will support the preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring we are following processes, retaining records for audit, and have comprehensive reconciliations for balance sheets & other accounts.

This role offers exposure to departmental and wider business projects and clear personal development within the Finance Team.

What You Will Be Doing

Supporting the management accountants to provide Monthly Reporting. Packs, including Consolidated Group Account and Banking Pack Reports.
Supporting with the accurate and timely reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts for the UK company and international subsidiaries, including Intercompany reconciliations across all entities.
Reporting and analysis as required by management accountant with support and development.
Ensuring that we are always up to date and in line with accounting standards and compliance requirements across the processes, as set by the senior members of the team.
Aligning with business improvement and efficiency initiatives, as appropriate.
Liaising with other finance teams and the wider business to achieve objectives.
Ensuring financial controls are consistently applied to the role.
Managing and supporting audit queries alongside the Finance Manager and Group FC.
Any other duties that may be reasonably required by the team.

Benefits

Working here at Travel Counsellors, we value the hard work and effort that our colleagues put in. Because of this, you can expect a wide range of employee benefits, including:

A competitive basic salary + annual company bonus
Flexible hybrid working model (2 days home, 3 days office)
Career development and promotional opportunities
25 days holidays (increasing to 28 after 5 years of service)
A Moments That Matter Day (annually)
Enhanced maternity/paternity pay
Holiday buy and sell (up to 5 days per year)
3 paid days charity leave
Company events, socials, and incentives
3x annual salary death in service benefit
Company pension scheme
Costco membership
Salary sacrifice, company car scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Free breakfast, fruit, and hot/cold beverages
Referral scheme
Employee discount

Essential Skills

GCSE Mathematics and English required - A Level Mathematics an advantage
Part-Qualified AAT/CIMA/ACCA an advantage
Excel Intermediate as a minimum - Dynamics 365 an advantage
2+ years of experience gained in a similar environment
Proven experience in working in a successful teamApply for this Finance Assistant role today and gain valuable experience in an award-winning, growing company!

About Company

Here at Travel Counsellors, our customers, communities, and colleagues lie at the heart of everything that we do - and that's what makes us special. For us, relationships come before transactions, and we are there for our customers, connecting with them on a deeply human level through the moments that matter.

We've been changing lives for the past 30 years as the leading travel marketplace for self-employed travel entrepreneurs, empowering over 2,000 global independent travel agents to run successful leisure and corporate travel businesses. We pride ourselves in remaining a company that truly cares and has never wavered from its purpose - to redefine what personal means for a travel business.

Our Travel Counsellors are supported by a team of over 300 super-talented people in our support offices to help them create unique, inspiring and exciting experiences for their customers whilst building lasting personal relationships that bring them back to us, time and time again.

Our unique approach within the workplace - as well as towards customers - has seen us receive numerous awards and accolades, including being named The Best Place to Work in Travel at the 2022 TTG Travel Industry Awards, placing in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list 2023 (Large Company) as well as being the first travel company to be awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category!

We are expanding at a phenomenal rate - on the back of our record year in terms of revenue (over £930m) - and are looking for outstanding individuals to join our dedicated Head Office team to help the company continue to flourish