Senior Management Accountant

Ready to lead financial strategy and drive organisational growth? Apply for our Senior Management Accountant role and leverage your expertise to make a lasting impact.

This Senior 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 Trafford Park, the successful candidate will be a qualified CCAB registered accountant.

Role Overview

The duties and responsibilities of this Senior Management Accountant role involve:

• Leading on Management Accounts, P&L, intercompany, control accounts & balance sheet reconciliations.
• Investigating and commenting on key variances between budgeted and actual performance, proposing corrective action as appropriate.
• Monthly reviews of the financial performance with the general managers.
• Accurate and timely reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts for the UK company and international subsidiaries, including intercompany reconciliations across all entities.
• Managing journal postings to make adjustments where required at month-end.
• Preparing and submitting external reports (VAT, ATOL return, and insurance renewals).
• Keeping up to date with accounting standards and compliance requirements across the processes.
• Proposing business improvement and efficiency initiatives as appropriate.
• Improving end-to-end accounting processes by consulting with other finance teams and the wider business.
• Supervising and guiding Management Accountants and finance assistants.
• Overseeing the accounting operations of your team's responsibility.
• Ensuring financial controls are applied consistently.
• Assisting in providing technical leadership to the finance team and the wider business.
• Managing and supporting audit queries alongside the Finance Team.
• Liaising with auditors to resolve queries in association with your remit.

Benefits

• A basic salary ranging from £45k - £50k depending on experience
• Flexible hybrid working model
• 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 of 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

• 3+ years of experience gained in a similar environment
• Qualified ACCA, ACA, CIMA or similarly recognised accounting qualification.
• Experience with working to tight deadlines.
• Proven experience in leading a successful team.
• Proven experience in taking ownership and responsibility.
• Proven experience working in a fast-paced, changing environment with excellent communication skills.

Desirable Skills

Previous experience in Group Consolidation is beneficial.

Elevate your career by applying for this Senior Management Accountant role today!

About Company

Here at Travel Counsellors, our customers, communities and colleagues lie at the heart of everything 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 one that 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 what is 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.