Senior Finance Accountant

Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.

What’s Travelport?

Travelport is worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We’re leading the change; we are the change.

We are on a mission to power the future of travel; come join us.

What does a great Financial and Integration Accountant General Ledger ?

This is a very exciting role to transition accounting into the UK and then to provide accounting support on an ongoing basis.

The core purpose of this role is to transition the accounting and then be responsible for the general ledger of Travelport legal entities and to understand the accounting, business, and operations, including analysing and explaining P&L and balance sheet variances in detail. Additionally, this role is responsible to the boards of directors of those entities for the completeness, accuracy and on-time filing of the statutory financial statements, including the activities carried out by the business process outsource partner (BPO) and compliance outsource partners.

Main Responsibilities

For assigned Travelport legal entities:

• Transition accounting into the UK Langley centre of excellence
• Management of month, quarter, and year-end timetable, ensuring bottlenecks are resolved and escalating issues as appropriate, including thorough review of trial balance provided by the BPO, detailed revenue, cost of revenue, operating expense and balance sheet variance and trend analyses.
• Preparation of monthly Legal Entity Management Reports (LEMR).
• Review and approval high-risk reconciliations prepared by the BPO.
• Monitoring timeliness of BPO balance sheet reconciliation preparation and review using the Trintech Cadency reconciliation software and periodic quality reviews of low-risk reconciliations prepared and reviewed by the BPO on a rolling basis.
• Regular reviews of KPIs and performance against BPO service level agreements (SLAs).
• Review and approval of VAT and other indirect tax returns prepared by compliance outsource partners.
• Coordination of Prepared by Client list requests to the external audit timetable, working with the BPO to provide required documentation and acting as the key point of contact for auditor queries.
• Ensuring completeness, accuracy and on-time filing of the statutory financial statements, which have been prepared by compliance outsource partners, along with the preparation of extended trial balances and presentations to Boards of Directors and other stakeholders as required.
• Production, accuracy, and on-time filing of any other regulatory or legally required financial or statistical returns.
• Support the annual budget setting process for GL operating expense budget.
• Working with Change Team and the BPO, to drive continuous system and process improvement.
• Responsible for the accuracy of process documentation, including standard operating procedures maintained by the BPO.
• Support reviews and requests for information from other internal stakeholders.
• Support business requirements gathering and user acceptance testing of finance system changes, upgrades, and implementations.

Who we are looking for in this role:

• Position would suit candidates who are either close to completing a professional Finance qualification or are recently qualified accountants, with at least 3 years’ post-qualification experience working in Finance Operations roles.
• Highly organized with strong analytical, business understanding and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders outside the Controllership R2R team.

• Successful candidate will be highly motivated and keen to both identify issues and take responsibility for seeing them through to resolution.
• Successful candidate should be able to work independently and take full ownership of resolving challenges that arise make decisions regarding complex accounting issues.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel is essential, and knowledge of US GAAP, Oracle and Trintech Cadency would be an advantage.

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you’re likely to succeed if you:

• Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work
• Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things
• Take responsibility and own your work
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before

These are just a few of our employee’s favourite benefits/perks…

Competitive base salary, annual bonus, private medical insurance, very generous holiday allowance and car allowance.

Interested? We’d love for you to get in touch! *

*Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.