To provide an effective Accounting service to a range of internal and external customers that help meet the strategic imperatives of the business.
The role will interface between the Distribution Accounting team and its internal and external customers (Tour Ops Accounting, Commercial Finance, Reporting, business line managers, and internal & external audit and statutory authorities), supporting collaborative team-working and improving co-ordination of activities.
What You'll Be Doing
Organisational effectiveness & cost management
Support the Financial Controller, Distribution in the re-engineering of existing processes and the delivery of optimal Distribution accounting structure.
Challenge accounting processes and structures to ensure resource allocation is optimised.
Work to adopt optimal working practices to ensure business needs are met efficiently and effectively.
Financial Accounting
Maintain financial ledgers for TUI UK and associated legal entities.
Liaise with the business to maintain and develop masterfile standing data.
Process journals created by the wider business relating to revenue, costs, assets, liabilities, cash and foreign exchange.
Reconcile balance sheet and other relevant accounts and prepare correcting journals as required.
Maintain the ledger chart of accounts, ensuring it reflects the financial accounting needs of the business.
Produce statutory accounts.
Management Accounting
Work with the Reporting Team to provide commentary and analysis relating to variances between actual and forecast/budgeted balance sheet accounts.
Work with Tour Ops accounting team to forecasting and analysis across related balance sheet accounts.
Ensure the chart of accounts reflects the management accounting needs of the business.
Financial control
Work with the MI team to ensure the accuracy of data from original source of data entry through to the reported results from the financial ledgers.
Manage and embed knowledge transfer from Financial Control projects. Audit management
Work with External Audit to develop and maintain relevant audit schedules and relevant backing documentation to support quarterly and year end accounts.
Work with Internal Audit to identify and correct sub-optimal internal controls and operating procedures.
Key Relationships (Internal & External contacts):
Reporting team Consult/inform
Tour Ops accounting team Consult/inform
Business teams Consult/inform
MI & systems team Partner/consult/inform
Financial Control project teams Partner/consult/inform
Group finance Consult/inform
Senior Finance Team Support
Direct reports Development/Consult/Inform
What We're Looking For
Qualified accountant with 1-3 years PQE and a minimum 3 years experience of financial/management accounting and/or audit
Strong technical accounting & analytical skills
Strong systems & process skills
Strong problem solving skills
Working knowledge of IFRS/IAS
Key Behaviours required:
Customer Obsessed
Understands and anticipates customers current and future needs
Continually works to build the customer relationship
Ensures customer perspective is included in business decisions
Recommends and implements changes to add value to the customer journey
Value Driven
Gains buy-in from stakeholders and drives forward to solution
Champions change and prepares others to respond positively
Is personally accountable
Is a major contributor of ideas for change to create exciting opportunities
Playing to Win
Has high self belief
Able to deliver to tight deadlines
Manages own emotions and supports the emotions of others self aware
Approaches all tasks with passion hungry for success
Promotes understanding of the vision and values to the wider business area
Responsible Leadership
Persuades and influences peers and senior managers in their thinking and actions
Adapts communication to match audience
Engages peers and others with objectives by setting high expectations, and encourages others to excel
Proactively seeks out feedback, receives it well and acts upon it
This job expired on 07/03/2012
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