Sales Ledger Team Lead - Horley, United Kingdom - Alternative Airlines

Alternative Airlines

Verified Company

Horley, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Sales Ledger Team Lead

About us

Alternative Airlines is enjoying high growth from £9m in 2020 to £67m in 2022. Our vision is to be the go-to online travel agency for flights.

Our mission is to empower travellers to easily book any flight wherever they are in the world supported by the very best customer service.

What the role involves

The finance team in Alternative Airlines is developing to support the exciting expansion of the company by scaling up key business processes and reporting, and introducing the right technology and expertise in the team to ensure longevity and success for this young and ambitious company.

Our Sales Ledger Team Lead role is a new role and an important part of our next stage of growth leading a team transacting a high volume of data, combined with ensuring robust controls are in place for the processes surrounding the revenue team.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, your responsibilities will be:

Leading a team of two to ensure that customer accounts are up to date and fully reconciled.
Manage processes surrounding the posting of revenue, fees and chargebacks based on a high volume of bookings to merchant accounts, across multiple currencies.
Review and reconciliation of merchant settlement reports to revenue bookings, assisting the team where there are issues and backlogs.
Design and implement controls and processes around the sales ledger e.g. new merchant onboarding, change of settlement bank and putting through changes in commercial terms.
Set up of new import schedules for new merchants, adapting to their reporting formats and ensuring it contains all necessary information.
Work closely with the management accounts and commercial teams to ensure customer account terms are up to date.
Day to day management of revenue accounts, and performance review.

Essential skills

Experience working in a finance team as an expert in the sales ledger function.
Experience working in a multicurrency environment.
Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, including vlookups, sumifs and pivot tables.
Able to demonstrate strong communication skills
Experience dealing with high volumes of data.
With a curious nature, you will look to improve, change or automate processes to benefit business performance and/or efficiency.
Experience of leading teams and using your initiative and collaborative skills to overcome issues as a team.

Desirable skills

Work experience in ecommerce and/or using BNPL providers

Benefits & Perks:

Flexible Working we allow our people to choose where they work best
Highly competitive salary which is regularly reviewed
Social events throughout the year
Plenty of holiday

If the above hasn't already told you that Alternative Airlines is a great place to work then, we also have some amazing benefits when working for Alternative Airlines:

Up to 13 weeks fully paid baby leave, which is available to all employees of

Alternative Airlines, regardless of gender or family circumstances.

Flight credits of up to £1,000 per year based on length of service
2 extra wellness holidays per year focusing on employee wellness
Enjoy a 2week paid sabbatical for every 5 years of service

Why work with us?
Our people matter, they are what drives our success.

Therefore we have created a culture where we put our people first:

We understand the importance of having a good worklife balance
A focus on personal progression and development
Opportunity to join an innovative and talented team
Influence the next stage of growth of a dynamic and ambitious company

Great Place to Work :
Alternative Airlines is officially certified as a Great Place to Work This certification was independently awarded by Great Place to
Work after they conducted an employee survey that showed:

97% of employees agree that Alternative Airlines is a great place to work
97% of employees agree that they're treated as a full member regardless of their position
100% of employees agree that they're made to feel welcome when joining

Alternative Airlines

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