We are looking for a qualified accountant to join us, in a critical finance role, you’ll be responsible for preparation, reporting and commentary on key financial information. Bringing strong business partnering skills and a confidence in presenting financial information to senior non-finance staff, you’ll provide meaningful insight to help the business track against its budget and forecasts. In addition, you’ll input into the monthly management accounts, and will use your broader business knowledge to provide meaningful commentary, performance analysis and explanations of significant variances to budget at a level of detail and tone appropriate for the Board.

Our ever-expanding business changes by the day. With this comes a wealth of ad-hoc projects and process improvements we’ll seek your involvement in. As such, we’re looking for someone with initiative who can recognise and act on these opportunities for change and is keen to get involved with new projects to help the business and broaden their own knowledge.

Responsibilities

Financial Accounting & Reporting

• Responsible for the month end accounting, reporting and supporting performance analysis of the following key areas: UK Sales, Rail and Ancillary Revenue, International carrier costs
• Ensuring posting and preparation and communication of insightful and meaningful analysis is completed within clear month end timeframes.
• Prepare group and individual entity month end balance sheet reconciliations.
• Preparation of complex calculations and revenue and costs accounting entries, including multi-currency transactions.
• Key contact point of contact for external and internal audit visits. Collation of interim and year end audit requirements

Finance Business Partner

• Proactively create and promote partnerships with business units. Provide all relevant financial support and analysis to assist in decision making. 
• Be able to enquire, express opinion and provide feedback constructively and with confidence.
• Contribute to annual budget and quarterly reforecast process across areas of responsibility, working together with business partners and commercial finance team

Process & Controls Champion

• Proactively work with other key finance stakeholders to define and implement new financial reporting processes that are well controlled and provide insightful commercial information.
• Continuous review and improvement of existing finance processes.
• Implement (where required), review and update process documentation to ensure internal controls framework remains robust, accurate and complete. 

• Qualified CA/ACCA/CIMA, with strong financial accounting experience.
• Experience operating with an enterprise wide, integrated finance system across multiple business units.
• Decisive and confident in operating autonomously on a regular basis, positive, self-reliant, open-minded and enthusiastic attitude. Confident in a fast paced, change environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to facilitate their work both as part of the team and under their own initiative with minimum supervision.
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent written and oral skills
• Passionate and committed 
• Keen to work in a growing, dynamic, and fast paced company
• Able to build relationships and utilise them both within the wider Finance team and across the business
• Well organised and able to manage/prioritise own workload and meet deadlines
• Analytically minded, able to investigate the detail but also consider the bigger picture