Senior Financial Accountant - Haywards Heath, United Kingdom - Collinson

Description

Collinson Group is a global leader in drivingloyalty and engagement for many of the worlds largest companies.Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefitswithin a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offersa unique blend of industry and sector specialists who togetherprovide marketleading experience in delivering products andservices across four core capabilities: Loyalty Lifestyle Benefitsand Insurance.

The group provides unrivalledinsight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequenttravellers creating and delivering products and services nowaccessible to over 400m end consumers.

We havemore than 25 years experience with 28 global locations servicingover 800 clients in 170 countries employing 1800people.

We have been bringing innovation to themarket since inception from launching the first independent globalVIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first tosell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct andcreating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sectorwith ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensurethat we continue to deliver superior customerexperiences.

Key clients include: Visa MastercardAmerican Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying BlueAccor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission isfocused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek outopportunities for our people to share in our success and that wegive back to the communities and people within which wework.

Never short of ambition the success of ourbusiness is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over1800 colleaguesglobally.

Whatdoes an Senior Financial Accountant doat Collinson

The Senior FinancialAccountant will work within the Central and Loyalty FinancialReporting team of the Collinson Group. They will work as anintegral part of the finance team responsible for a range ofentities across Loyalty and Central Service business areas. Theywill work with the Head of Financial Reporting and the FinancialReporting Manager to help oversee the monthly management accountssupport the production of the statutory accounts and act as a keypoint of contact during the audit process.

TheSenior Financial Accountant will provide oversight on theproduction of the monthly management accounts for all Centralentities reviewing the completeness and accuracy of the results.They will provide input and support for regulatory reportingbalance sheet reconciliation and other tasks relating to theentities within the Central and Loyalty Finance team. They willalso provide technical accounting guidance across the team activelydrive support and implement process/ system changes within the teamensuring a strong and effective control environment existsstandardising where possible with a specific emphasis on improvingand reducing month end closetimeline.

Key responsibilities ofthis role include:

• Leadthe team to drive improvements to establish improve and maintainhigh quality and timely managementaccounts
• Delivering monthly management accountsincluding variance analysis and commentary highlightingopportunities & threats and responsibility to presenting tointernal customers
• Delivery of annual GroupStat Packs and internal compliance declarations ensuring they arecompleted in line with Group policies and deadlines for thespecified entities
• Line management for 34 staffincluding objective setting and monitoring of those objectives.Develop and motivate staff by providing them with clear directionto achieve their goals
• Management of thefinancial accounting and reconciliation for the monthly payrollprocesses
• Ensure balance sheet reconciliationsare produced in line with agreed timings are clean and anyoutstanding items have clear ownership and actions and are followedup
• To provide oversight of the intercompanyposition ensuring this is reconciled monthly to agree with theother group entities and settled as per Grouppolicy
• To collaborate with the CommercialFinance Business Partners to ensure good understanding of thebudgets and forecasts to support accurate accruals prepayments andad hoc journals that are required to be posted into the month endmanagement accounts ensuring a high level of accuracy andunderstanding exists across the team
• Supportthe wider Finance Operations team to ensure all transactionsprocessed are accurate and complete and recorded in a timelymanner
• Support the Head of Financial Reportingand the Financial Reporting Manager on all audits (including butnot limited to internal 3^rd party oryearend). Assisting with the management of audit requests to ensureevidence is sufficient
• Oversight of thefinancial position of the Group funding entity including interestcalculations FX exposure and reconciliation to the treasurysystem
• Assist with continuous embedding anddelivery of the Finance Transformationproject
• Ensure robust controls are in placeadherence and look to enhance wherepossible
• Keeping abreast of technicalaccounting developments to ensure that the impact of changes isunderstood and applied on a timely basis providing accountingguidance across the team.
• Ensuring all processdocuments are in place regularly reviewed andupdated
• Strive to deliver continuous processimprovements delivering best in classprocesses
• Support in the review of anyregulatory reporting as required
• Ownership ofthe periodic VAT returns
• Play an active role inthe ongoing embedding of the new accounting software MicrosoftDynamics.

Keyskills and experience to be evidenced within your applicationinclude

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA CIMA ACAor Equivalent) with at least 3 years post qualifiedexperience.
• Good knowledge of MicrosoftDynamics accounting systems preferable
• Highpersonal levels of motivation and delivery orientated focus
• Evidence of continuous improvementexperience
• Able to work well underpressure
• A proactive forwardlooking andchallenging mindset
• Detail focused with strongorganisation and planning skills
• Ability tointeract with and develop working relationships internally andexternally to achieve best outcomes for the business andcustomer
• Experience of developing and leadinghigh performing teams
• Ability to encouragetrain and develop the Financial Accountants and Assistant FinancialAccountants
• Knowledge and experience of bestpractice within industry to consistently improve delivery withindepartment

Collinson is anequal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all theirforms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexualorientation neurodivergence family status age individuals withdisabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures andexperiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoingsuccess.

We are focused oncontinually evolving our purpose driven high performing cultureproviding an environment where our people have the opportunity toachieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningfulwork. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing Oneteam and Be insight led. These help guide everything we dointernally in terms of how we think act and interact right throughto how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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