Assistant Management Accountant

ASSISTANT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

Office based or Hybrid Opportunity (min 2-3 days per week in the office) based in Wallington, Surrey

Newmarket Holidays at a glance

Our aim is to enrich lives and well-being through travel. That is our purpose. Our ‘why’. It is ambitious and bold, but through the commitment of our brilliant people, we’re doing more and more each day to create and deliver incredible wish-list holidays. The types of holidays that people have always dreamt of experiencing. We bring those dreams to life and are the trusted friends of our loyal customers.

The Newmarket Spirit is what binds us together. Throughout this, our 40^th year, and all other years, we strive to grow. To challenge ourselves in new ways. Embracing different points of view and realising our potential. For the right person, their story can begin right here.

The role

Reporting to the Finance Business Partner, the Assistant Management Accountant is responsible for the reporting of the Tour Operating performance; along with identifying opportunities for margin improvement and process efficiencies within the wider business.

What I do

• Take responsibility for delivering robust tour profit and loss reporting.
• Work with the business to deliver strong margins and accurate cost reporting
• Produce the month end management accounts
• Produce month end reconciliations for the prepayment and accrual tour operating accounts
• Support the budgeting and forecasting processes
• Ensure cancelled booking costs and revenues are accurately reported and controlled
• Constantly evolve processes to improve reporting
• Share skills and knowledge with team members
• Liaise with the Auditors and support the preparation of year end audit schedules

Who I am

• Experience of working with high volumes of data and to tight deadlines
• Good understanding of control accounts and reconciliations
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to take the initiative
• Strong understanding of Finance systems and how data links across the different ledgers
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Experience working within travel

Who I work with

• Finance team
• Product team(s)
• Senior Management team
• Sales/Distribution team

How I work

• Committed to upholding professional standards and act as a role model for others
• Demonstrate passion and approach all tasks in an enthusiastic way
• Displaying integrity and is sincere in own behaviour and in dealings with others
• Self-motivated and self-aware – recognises own development needs and is committed to personal growth
• Take responsibility for own actions
• Inspires confidence
• Collaboratively at all levels
• Create a working environment where difference and diversity is valued
• Embrace change
• Take a leadership role in developing a culture that enables, inspires and expects all employees to flourish and achieve

Tasks

• Carry forward prepaid costs
• Close Prior Accounting period - Run CLOPER reports and close fiscal period
• Current Month HPA figures onto Management Account File
• Current Period HPA Accruals - Coach, Schools, Ocean Cruise, River Cruise, Events
• Development Training
• Insurance Costs Journal
• Insurance revenue journal
• Process Cruise Cancellations
• Process prior month reversing journals in current period
• Process Ticket movements
• Re-allocate TOMS Split costs to UK/EU and Non EU Codes
• Release costs from Brought forward results
• Reverse Charge VAT on Tour Managers
• Run Prepayments in Sage
• Technical Training
• Test Transactions
• Tiger Bay - liaise with PI on cost queries/setup
• Tiger Bay Cancellation revenue journal production
• Tiger Bay Insurance costs
• Tiger Bay Insurance Income
• Tiger Bay Tours departing revenue journals production
• TOMS split analysis for Cruise
• Current Period HPA Accruals - Short Haul
• Current Period HPA Accruals - Long Haul
• Any other reasonable tasks that need to be done in order to ensure the smoot running of the Company

What we can offer you

• A changing and multi-cultural team-spirited environment with opportunities to learn from new experiences and challenges
• Leaders who are interested in your development and committed to helping you to be the best version of yourself
• A responsible organisation that cares about its people, the environment, and the communities we visit
• Encouragement to take initiative and try something new and different
• A flexible and hybrid-working arrangement
• An exciting set of benefits
• The opportunity to visit our destinations and experience our holidays

The Newmarket Spirit

The Newmarket Spirit is what binds us together. It is our ‘who?’. The Newmarket Spirit bridges the external view of our brand and the internal reality. It seeks to enrich the lives and well-being of our people through travel.

The Newmarket Spirit encompasses five distinct pillars, which have been inspired by people across our organisation.

BE RESPONSIBLE | BE TOGETHER | BE COMMERCIAL | BE DETERMINED | BE A LEADER

Join Us

Sound like the kind of opportunity and place to work that you’re looking for? Please send your CV with a brief covering note about your salary expectations and any notice period to our Recruitment Team.

No Agencies please.

As an equal opportunities employer, Newmarket Holidays is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Newmarket Holidays.