Financial Controller - Maternity cover (9-12 months) bei Topdeck Travel Ltd

Here at Flight Centre Global Touring, we're a travel company specialising in group tours and inspiring people through life-changing travel experiences. Through our brands Topdeck Travel, Back-Roads Touring and Grasshopper Adventures we are ever developing our product range, driving growth in key sales markets (Australia, New Zealand & North America), innovating product delivery and ensuring we deliver a first-class customer experience. Don't worry if you can't find Global Touring when you search online - this is our internal brand, externally we only use our customer facing brands.

Topdeck, Back-Roads and Grasshopper serve different customers, however our 'one best way' approach is consistent and effective in supporting the specific strategy and activity for each brand. At Global Touring, each team member works across each of our brands with equal commitment. 

We're looking for someone to join our team that aligns perfectly with our brand and values... if this sounds like you then keep reading!

Overview

The Financial Controller role is a crucial part of the Finance team, focusing primarily on leading a medium sized team, ensuring the delivery of strong financial control and risk management within the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership of financial control functions
• Ensuring all balance sheet accounts are fully and transparently reconciled - with particular emphasis on bank reconciliations
• Document each key accounting process and publish written work instructions that can be followed; developing those processes to ensure efficiency and robust financial control
• Leadership of transactional finance functions - AP and AR - as well as treasury activity; ensuring deadlines are met through efficient processes
• Providing auditors' requests for information promptly and accurately; production of statutory accounts
• Mentoring and supporting development of team members

Experience, Requirement and Key Behaviours

• Qualified accountant with a minimum 3 year' post-equal experience in a high volume, low margin business within a listed group
• Proactive and hands on, with a desire to continuously improve processes, provide great service and deeply understand the problem at hand
• Passion for excellence in financial control
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills, passion for process efficiency
• Genuine, practical experience of leading a team delivering timely month end reporting
• Thrives under pressure and adapts positively to change
• And of course... a passion for all things travel related!

Corporate and Social Responsibilities

You should demonstrate a commitment to the following, within Global Touring:

• improving recycling processes
• stopping the use of all single-use plastic items
• promoting the use of reusable items such as Tupperware and water bottles
• protect our company culture of openness to all people regardless of gender, age...

Team member benefits

Our benefits are ever changing and are offered to UK employees (some with specific length of service required to access), as subject to change. Access guides and usage policies and T&Cs can all be accessed upon joining.

Travel & Entertainment

• Annual free trip with one of our brands
• Family & Friends discount on Global Touring trips
• Travelwise - Internal travel agent with access to exclusive industry deals and discounts
• Eurostar - Flat rate fares across the network
• Hotels - travel industry concessions at selected international chains
• Perkbox (UK) membership with flexipoints added monthly
• Finance & Lifemin
• ​​​​​​​Pension contribution (UK)
• Access to FCTG employee share plan (Global)

Health & Wellbeing

• Free annual eye test
• Healthwise forum
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Cycle to work scheme

Working arrangements & leave

• 23 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Birthday leave
• Flexible working
• L&D days (up to 4x per year)
• Volunteer Leave
• Additional Annual leave purchase
• Bonus up to 10% based on profits linked performance

We support flexible working, and for the right candidate we're open for this role being partially based remotely. Ideally, we'd like you to start immediately but won't rule out anyone worth waiting for.

Hungry for more? Shoot over your resume along with a cover letter telling us why this is the job for you - and equally why you're right for us.

Global Touring Values

Our values aren't just words on a page. They're the backbone; the steering wheel; the soundtrack to how we embrace each day. Like a well baked brownie, every ingredient combines to achieve the rich consistency fueling the sol of Global Touring.

Stay curious

We are natural born explorers. Our people question old solutions, apply alternative thinking and embrace being challenged in the search for outcomes. We're excited by the journey on and off the road - expanding our knowledge, adapting to feedback and questioning the status quo. Value ideas over hierarchy. Have the courage to take risks. Don't let perfection prevent growth.

Choose transparency

We take the right way, not the easy way. We're straight up even through the toughest conversations; tackling challenges head-on and with integrity. Honour commitments. Communicate with clarity. And build relationships based on mutual respect. Forget hidden agendas, we treat everyone fairly - despite a preference for instant coffee.

Don't pass the buck 

If we do it, we do it well. We are empowered to make decisions based on data and experience - holding each other accountable along the way. Spare the excuses. Be fearless in the pursuit of results. And take responsibility - even when no one's looking. There will be bumps in the road; that's ok. We own our mistakes and learn from the challenges as well as the successes. 

Together we go further

Across oceans and office desks, it's more than a love for travel that keeps up connected.

There are no silos here; we are each other's toughest critics and loudest supporters - especially around the ping pong table. People with diverse backgrounds, different identities and varied experiences make our company exceptional. We embrace alternate perspectives, recognise each other's strengths and champion collective genius.