Financial Controller

**Working with us**:
Operating across the world including Europe, Australia, North America and South East Asia, we’re passionate about being the best and pride ourselves on the unique and diverse range of holiday experiences we offer our customers. Our combined businesses are the world’s largest provider of specialist and experiential travel with a range of unique experiences, from private jets, polar expeditions, sailing, trekking and more.

**Summary**:
The Financial Controller is a key role owning the Travelopia Holdings Limited (“THL”) finance team, with overall responsibility for the operation of the financial controls and financial reporting of THL. Leading a team of four who are responsible for the accounting of payroll costs, recharges for a number our Group’s companies, intangible assets and assets under construction, monitoring and control of central function cost centres and monthly intercompany balance reconciliations, your role is to ensure that these are done corrected and controlled well. You will also be responsible for internal management reporting to Group and for external reporting in areas such as VAT and the preparation of UK statutory financial documents in accordance and compliance with IFRS and FRS 101

**What you will be doing**:
**Financial Control and Compliance**
- Responsible for the accounting and management of day to day operations of the Company ensuring all general ledger postings are processed accurately in SAP.
- Responsible for THL submission to HFM (Group consolidation system) and ensuring all consolidation postings are processed accurately in HFM.
- Responsible for operation of the financial controls with THL and the completion of the Quarterly Controls checklist and its submission to the Head of Financial Compliance and for ensuring that the underlying controls are in place and are being carried out. Leading any follow-up actions required and developing the Financial Control environment.
- Ensure all balance sheet accounts such as prepayments, debtors, creditors and accruals are reviewed and reconciled in Blackline on a monthly basis to ensure an accurate balance sheet at each month end and financial controls and processes are aligned with.
- Be responsible for the clearance of all intercompany mismatches at each month end and throughout the month and ensuring that the HFM mismatch report is investigated and reviewed.
- Be responsible for the integrity and smooth operation of the SAP accounting system within THL, involving liaison with SAP Finance Analysts and the SAP support team. The role will also include ensuring that non-Finance staff within THL are able to use SAP and raise Purchase Orders and goods receipt items, which will involve supporting and training those staffs. The role will involve owning the UAT testing of the biannual SAP upgrade.
- Responsible for ensuring that Fixed assets are correctly recorded and valued appropriately, including accounting adjustments at entity and Group level for Software as a service, impairment reviews, and that all amounts are capitalised to the correct assets accounting codes and that the cost of projects are supervised and capitalised when completed.

**Financial accounting and statutory reporting**:

- Responsible for review of THL VAT return for compliance with VAT rules and timely and accurate VAT submission to HMRC for the THL VAT Group as a whole.
- Ensure regulatory reporting requirements for THL are aligned with, including statutory, VAT, tax, legal, ONS, payment performance statistics and compliance matters and all vital reporting is filed on time.
- Responsible for the timely completion and review of the THL Annual statutory accounts and primary point of contact for, and liaison, with external auditors on THL matters as part of the Group audit.

**Management reporting**:

- Take full responsibility for THL's HFM monthly management accounts, ensuring full compliance with all elements of monthly and quarterly instructions.
- Collaborating closely with Group FP&A to analyse variances between forecast and actuals. Active participation in monthly Group cost review meetings with senior Finance leaders.
- Overall responsibility for the timely and accurate reporting of the results of THL and ensuring that cost centres managers have accurate and timely cost centre reports to review. Review the sample and Final payroll with the THL Financial Accountant

**Cash reporting and management**:

- Responsible for Cash Analytics reporting on a weekly basis being the reporting of actual cash transactions with input from THL Finance Accountant and THL Finance Assistant. Consideration of forecast cash flows and accurate reporting in CA.
- Responsible for meeting regulatory requirements for settlement of intercompany balances.
- Responsible for approval of cash payments from THL's bank accounts for payments set up by Finance Assistant and the direction of AP staff on the timing and validity of BACS pay runs for the payment