Vacancy Opening
Company Accountant
Contract: Permanent/ Full Time
Who we are?
We’re the foundation brand bringing together our three companies, Lime, Calrom & Aviate, all with unique services to the travel trade, here’s a little more on each brand’s speciality:
About this Role
The Company Accountant will be a part of a dynamic and fluid finance team.
This role sits within a busy and multi-skilled Finance team. Our team is a hive of activity who work hard to handle all finances for the Travel Innovation Group. As well as looking after our management accounts and financial reporting, we’re also a key touchpoint for many suppliers, tour operator & travel agent partners and contractors across the group.
To support your personal development, the team and wider company is dedicated to providing plenty of training opportunities, helping team members to flourish in their roles.
Tasks & responsibilities include:
- Financial Reporting: Prepare accurate and timely financial statements, including profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and cash flow reports.
- Balance Sheet Reconciliations: Review balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all balances are fully supported, control accounts agree to the general ledger, and reconciling items and discrepancies are investigated and resolved promptly.
- Financial Review and Control: Review monthly financial results to ensure completeness, accuracy and consistency before submission for management review.
- Budget and Forecast Analysis: Analyse actual financial performance against budget, forecast and prior periods, providing clear explanations for significant variances and recommending appropriate corrective actions.
- Commercial and Cost Analysis: Perform monthly analysis of key commercial and cost performance, identifying trends, investigating variances and highlighting opportunities for improvement.
- Business Partnering: Work closely with operational and departmental managers to understand business performance, investigate unusual financial movements and identify opportunities for cost reduction and improved efficiency.
- Process and Reporting Improvement: Identify and recommend improvements to accounting systems, processes and internal controls to enhance accuracy, efficiency and the reliability of financial reporting.
- Corporation Tax: Prepare and oversee corporation tax computations and returns, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and filing deadlines.
- External Audit: Coordinate and support the external audit process, ensuring all required documentation, supporting schedules and audit trails are maintained and readily available.
- Regulatory and Compliance Reporting: Prepare and submit monthly and annual financial reports to relevant regulatory and compliance bodies, ensuring accuracy and adherence to reporting deadlines.
We think you’ll be a great fit if you have:
- A recognised accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA etc).
- Experience of computerised accounting software and an aptitude for system. improvements and developments.
- Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
- Ability to think objectively.
- Motivated to develop knowledge and skills and improve processes.
- Excellent at communicating, capable of updating and directing all levels of staff, both internal and external to the department.
- Driven to meet personal and departmental deadlines.
What you’ll get
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid working options (minimum three days in the office).
- 5% matched company pension contributions.
- Modern office with on-site gym and bar so you can enjoy a free drink on a Friday!
- Internal training academy to support your learning and personal development.
- Additional company benefits to support your wellbeing and happiness!
Get to know us more
Take a deeper look into who we are and what we do by visiting Travel Innovation Group