Overview
As Management Accountant, you’ll play a central role in strengthening our core financial processes as we scale. With oversight of our month-end close, cash flow forecasting, and financial statement preparation, you’ll be the backbone of accurate and timely reporting that supports confident business decisions. This role combines hands-on responsibility with leadership, supporting the day-to-day transactional work of the team while also owning critical month-end tasks and compliance. You’ll partner with the Financial Controller and cross-functional teams to ensure our financial processes are efficient, scalable and future-ready.
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who enjoys both structure and variety and wants to help shape the finance function of a fast-growing travel business.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Month End and Financial Reporting: Lead the month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accurate and timely delivery and sign-off of management accounts
* Work confidently with high volumes of transactional data, ensuring completeness and accuracy across all ledgers
* Review key reconciliations and journal entries to produce high-quality financial statements and reporting packs
* Budgeting, Forecasting & Insight: Contribute to the budgeting process, reviewing costs and providing analysis
* Analyse performance drivers, variances, and trends across departments and suppliers
* Support the creation of dashboards and visual tools to communicate financial performance effectively
* Cash Flow Forecasting: Prepare and maintain rolling cash flow forecasts, flagging potential risks and identifying opportunities to optimise working capital
* Monitor actual vs forecasted cash performance and provide insight to support decision-making
* Compliance & Regulatory Reporting: Manage financial compliance obligations specific to the travel industry, including reporting to the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and other relevant bodies
* Support the annual statutory audit process, preparing schedules and liaising directly with external auditors
* Ensure internal compliance procedures are followed and well-documented
* Team Oversight & Support: Provide day-to-day guidance and oversight to our two Finance Assistants, supporting transactional accuracy and development
* Act as a point of escalation for accounts payable and receivable queries, helping to ensure efficient processes and controls are maintained
* Systems & Process Improvement: Take ownership of reviewing and mapping finance-related processes across the business, from operations through to finance
* Proactively lead cross-functional team initiatives that enhance the flow of financial data to ensure complete and accurate records
* Contribute to strong financial controls and support continuous improvement of policies and processes
What You Will Bring
* Qualified accountant with a minimum of 2 years post-qualified experience
* Strong technical accounting skills with a solid understanding of financial controls and reconciliations
* Hands-on experience of owning month-end close processes and preparing management accounts
* Comfortable managing large volumes of transactional data and navigating multi-currency environments
* Strong systems knowledge with the ability to understand end-to-end business processes and identify improvements
* A proactive mindset and enthusiasm for improving processes and driving efficiency
* Experience in the travel industry or with regulatory reporting (e.g. CAA) is a bonus, but not essential
Team & Management
* Who’s going to be your manager? You’ll be reporting to Lauren, our Financial Controller
* How big is the team? 1x Finance Director; 1x Financial Controller; 2x Accounts Payable Specialist; 2x Finance Assistant; 1x Analyst; 1x FP&A Manager (currently recruiting)
Interview Process
* TA Screening – 30 mins
* Virtual interview with Financial Director – 30 mins
* In-person interview with Finance Director and Financial Controller – 1 hour
* Values interview with one of our founders – 30 mins
Employee Benefits
* 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + 4 “me/wellbeing” days
* Hybrid working policy
* Vitality health insurance
* Enhanced parental leave for primary / secondary carers and adoptive parents
Additional Employee Perks
* £1,000 Heidi holiday credit + additional holiday discounts
* Company social calendar including summer party, end of term conference and team celebrations
* £300 work from home budget
Our Commitment to Inclusive Hiring
We want to create an inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our people whilst enabling them to do the best work of their careers. We are committed to ensuring that all our people processes are equitable. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, sex, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
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* Other
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* IT Services and IT Consulting
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