Group Management Accountant

 With offices in the UK, USA and South Africa, we are a growing Travel Management Company specialising in the charity, academic and not-for-profit sectors, and we are proud and passionate about what we do.

We are currently looking for a Group Management Accountant to join the Finance Department in Manchester. This role has a broad scope working closely with not only the Finance Team, but across other functions in providing support and driving necessary change to ensure reporting is delivered right first time. The primary responsibilities of this role include:

• Daily Gross Margin Reporting, providing an analytical overview where margin deviates from forecast /target

• Review the overheads on a monthly basis, ensuring costs are captured, variances to budget understood, and reports distributed to budget-holders for review

• Prepare the Group Management Accounts at month-end, ensuring close is delivered in a timely manner

• Reconcile the monthly payroll charges, ensuring journals are processed correctly, balance sheet control accounts reconciled, and analysis for the monthly pack completed

• Deliver reporting where required for the various month-end packs

• Drive balance sheet reconciliations to be completed on a monthly basis across all companies•

• Support the Financial Controller and Finance Director in delivering a clean year-end audit (Financial and ATOL)

• Ad-hoc reporting and analysis as and when required by the business

• Oversee the management of Assistant Management Accountants

• A solid understanding of finance is essential and holds a professional accountancy qualification

• Have proven experience working within a similar role

• Have experience working with office and finance systems

• Be able to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment

• Have the ability to work independently, and within a team, to achieve individual and departmental targets

• Good analytical and excel skills with excellent attention to detail

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills

• Have excellent time management skills so as to ensure prioritisation is understood and deadlines met

In return you will receive:

• Salary to £60k (dependent on experience) plus 10% bonus per annum 

• 23.5 days holiday (plus bank holidays), rising to 24.5 days after 12 months of service

• Option to buy or sell additional annual leave

• Excellent opportunities for progression

• Employee Assistance Program

• Private Healthcare

• Healthcare Cash Plan

• Pension

• Life Assurance

• Season ticket loan

• Discounted staff travel

• Cycle to Work Scheme

If you are interested in our role and meet the requirements above, then please do get in touch. Our working hours are 8.45am - 5.30pm, Monday – Friday. This is a hybrid working role with working 3 days in the office a week.

Welcome to Diversity Travel – We are a successful travel management company for the charity and academic communities. We are passionate about developing our people, creating dynamic partnerships with our customers and providing responsible travel solutions. We invite you to visit our company LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/company/diversity-travel/ to learn more about us and what we do.

PASSIONATE - We’re driven to help make the world a better place, creating dynamic partnerships with our customers and an environment for our people to thrive.

BOLD - We embrace innovation and challenge the status quo to deliver outstanding results.

MINDFUL - We prioritise sustainability, ethical practices, and responsible travel, ensuring that our service leave a positive and lasting impression.