Finance Assistant

About Us

At Travel Counsellors, our customers, communities, and colleagues are at the heart of everything we do, and this is what sets us apart. We prioritise relationships over transactions, connecting deeply with our customers through the moments that matter. For over 30 years, we’ve been changing lives as the UK’s leading travel marketplace for self-employed travel entrepreneurs, empowering over 2,000 independent agents to build successful leisure and corporate travel businesses.

With the support of a talented team of 400+ people in our Support Offices, our Travel Counsellors create exceptional experiences and build lasting personal connections, ensuring customers return time and time again. Our unique approach has earned us numerous accolades, including "Best Place to Work in Travel" at the 2022 TTG Travel Industry Awards, a spot on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list (2023-2024), and the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation.

As we experience exceptional growth, with record revenues exceeding £1bn, we’re looking for outstanding individuals to join our expanding Head Office team and help us continue to thrive.

Role Description

This role will provide a breadth of exposure and the opportunity to gain lots of experience in a fast paced and exciting company that is restructuring and strengthening its finance team. You will support our preparation of monthly management accounts, ensuring that we are following processes and retain records for audit, ensuring that we have comprehensive reconciliations for balance sheets & other accounts, exposure to departmental and wider business projects and clear personal development within the Finance Team.

This is a 3-month fixed-term contract - opportunities to extend contract.

Principle Accountabilities

• Supporting the Management Accountants to provide Monthly Reporting Packs including Consolidated Group Account and Banking Pack Reports
• Support with accurate and timely reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts for both the UK company and international subsidiaries, including Intercompany reconciliations across all entities
• Reporting and analysis as required by management accountant with support & development
• Ensuring that we are always up to date and in line with accounting standards and compliance requirements across the processes, as set by the senior members of the team
• Align with business improvement and efficiency initiatives as appropriate
• Liaising with other finance teams and the wider business to achieve objectives
• Ensure that financial controls are consistently applied to your role
• Manage and support audit queries alongside the Finance Manager and Group FC
• Any other duties that may be reasonably required by the team

Educational/Professional Standards

• GCSE Mathematics and English Required – ‘A’ Level Mathematics an advantage
• Part Qualified AAT/CIMA/ACCA an advantage
• Excel Intermediate as minimum – Dynamics 365 an advantage
• 2+ years’ experience gained in a similar environment
• Proven experience in working in a successful team

Our Benefits

Working here at Travel Counsellors, we value the hard work and effort that our colleagues put in. Because of this, you can expect a wide range of employee benefits including:

• A competitive basic salary + annual company bonus
• 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 (up to 5 days per year)
• 3 paid days charity leave
• Company events, socials, and incentives
• 3x annual salary death in service benefit
• Company Pension scheme
• Costco Membership
• Salary sacrifice, company car scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free breakfast, fruit, and hot/cold beverages
• Referral scheme
• Employee discount
• Private Medical Insurance (taxable benefit) or Healthcare Cash Plan (costs incurred by employees)