Job Description:
Are you an experienced Management Accountant looking for a new opportunity that offers competitive pay, fantastic benefits, and development opportunities ?
This Management Accountant role involves working across the group, ensuring the quality delivery of month-end and year-end accounts preparation, supporting a strong control environment, and enabling clean audit reports.
Based in Manchester, the successful candidate will be a part-qualified, CCAB-registered accountant.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
* Preparation and review of the monthly reporting packs.
* Investigate and comment on key variances between budgeted and actual performance, proposing corrective action as appropriate.
* Monthly reviews of financial performance with individual Cost Centre Managers
* Accurate and timely reconciliation of a range of balance sheet accounts for the UK company and international subsidiaries, including intercompany reconciliations across all entities.
* Keep up to date with accounting standards and compliance requirements, etc. across the processes.
* Propose business improvement and efficiency initiatives, as appropriate.
* Improve end-to-end accounting processes by liaising with other finance teams and the wider business.
* Ensure financial controls are consistently applied.
* Manage and support audit queries.
* Work with the Group Accountant to ensure compliance with tax legislation across the group.
* Any other duties that may be reasonably required.
Our Benefits
* 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
* 3 paid days charity leave
* Company events, socials, and incentives
* 3 x death in service
* Company pension scheme
* Costco membership
* Salary sacrifice, company car scheme
* Free breakfast, fruit, and hot/cold beverages
* Referral scheme
* Employee discount
Essential Skills
Skills and experience required:
* 2+ years of experience gained in a similar environment
* Part-qualified ACCA, ACA, or CIMA or similarly recognised accounting qualification
* Proven experience working in a successful team
* Proven experience of taking ownership and responsibility
* Proven experience working in a fast-paced, changing environment
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
* Active participation in systems improvement/implementation programmes
Apply for this Management Accountant role today to add your skills and experience to our award-winning team.
About Company
Here at Travel Counsellors, our customers, communities, and colleagues lie at the heart of everything 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 so are looking for outstanding individuals to join our dedicated Head Office team to help the company continue to flourish.
