Assistant Accountant
- Recruiter
- Trainline
- Location
- Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 12 Nov 2021
- Closes
- 11 Dec 2021
- Ref
- G2bJIN4hKLBO
- Job role
- Assistant accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Part qualified
Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world's rail, coach and other travel services into one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We're hugely proud to be the world's leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That's more than £3.7 billion in ticket sales annually, and over 90 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is now part of the FTSE 250.
Our culture is central to our success.We're driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we're always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It's this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.
Purpose of the Role
The ideal candidate will already have had experience in a similar role, where the key purpose is to support the Edinburgh based Finance Manager in the delivery of timely, accurate and insightful financial and management reporting.
The role will be fast paced with changing demands and plenty of opportunity to get involved in one off projects and new challenges. This specification should be considered an outline of the key responsibilities, but the right candidate should be open minded and keen to evolve the role once established.
Responsibilities
Management Reporting
Financial Reporting
Other
Knowledge and Experience
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it's the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.
Our culture is central to our success.We're driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we're always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It's this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.
Purpose of the Role
The ideal candidate will already have had experience in a similar role, where the key purpose is to support the Edinburgh based Finance Manager in the delivery of timely, accurate and insightful financial and management reporting.
The role will be fast paced with changing demands and plenty of opportunity to get involved in one off projects and new challenges. This specification should be considered an outline of the key responsibilities, but the right candidate should be open minded and keen to evolve the role once established.
Responsibilities
Management Reporting
- Assist in the preparation of monthly Operational reporting by:
- Assisting with report layout and template design
- Report generation
- Perform data accuracy checks and trending analysis
- Continuously develop reporting knowledge from our accounting system (Microsoft Dynamics 365)
- Supporting business partners and attending meetings with wider business where required
- Share learning with others in the team
- Ensuring deadlines are met.
Financial Reporting
- Preparation and posting of routine revenue, Cost of Sales and overhead journal entries.
- Preparation of month end balance sheet reconciliations.
- Management of overheads by department at a detailed level.
Other
- Assist with interim and year end external audit requirements.
- Assist with annual budget process.
- Preparation of ad hoc financial reports.
- Foreign currency experience useful due to the growth in international business
- Confident in both written and verbal communication. Able to build relationships and utilise them both within the wider Finance team and across the business
- Well organised and able to manage/prioritise own workload and meet deadlines
- Analytically minded, able to look into the detail but also think about the bigger picture
- Able to work both independently and as part of a team
- Keen to continue with your accounting qualifications.
Knowledge and Experience
- Part qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA 2+ years' experience
- Advanced Excel skills
- Excellent written and oral skills
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it's the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.