Sr. Financial Accountant

Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.


Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500+ lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception – from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2,200 global colleagues.

Purpose of the role

Being a Senior Financial Accountant at Airport Dimensions is an excellent opportunity that will give you exposure to all aspects of the finance and the wider business. This role sits within the EMEA & APAC team, focusing on the EMEA region whilst supporting at the global level. The successful candidate will have to be organised, self-motivated with a desire to constantly improve.

You will be responsible for supporting the senior management team by providing accurate and insightful information that helps drive performance, whilst delivering quality financial statements on time along with the necessary reconciliations and analysis to ensure we adhere to our stakeholder obligations.

Key Responsibilities

•Managing and monitoring the integrity of the management and financial data used for Board Reports, statutory accounts, management accounts, budget and forecasts; resolving issues identified and liaising with stakeholders as required.

Accounting

• Manage the monthly closing process including month end journals, intercompany reconciliations, and preparation of the monthly management accounts
• Raise customer invoices, recording and allocating receipts and doing regular credit control
• Record supplier invoices, managing supplier reconciliations and setting up payments
• Monthly bank reconciliation

Statutory and corporate

• Responsible to deliver statutory accounts for the UK entities including notes to the accounts with agreed timeline
• Assist the external audit process
• Manage quarterly VAT return submission and other tax compliance
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements – Companies House, HMRC etc.

Management information

• Manage monthly consolidated management reporting process
• Prepare value-add analysis and commentary on monthly results for inclusion in the Board Report
• Provide standard and ad-hoc internal reports and analysis

Forecasting and planning

• Prepare weekly cash flow forecast and monthly Capex forecast
• Support annual budgeting and monthly rolling forecasting process
• Facilitate labour planning with the regional Operations team
• Analyse variances to improve forecast accuracy

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

• Strong financial accounting skills, including working knowledge of FRS 102 and IFRS 16
• Advanced Excel skills including sumifs, vlookup and pivot table. VBA and Power Query desirable
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Word, and Power BI
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Project management experience
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• We expect to be transitioning our core financials system from Access Dimensions to Microsoft Dynamics, so experience of both would be preferred.
• We have just implemented a new forecast and planning tool, so experience of Tagetik would be an advantage.
• We utilise Iris Accounts for our statutory preparation software, so experience of this would be an advantage.
• Experience of process automation and/or financial modelling desirable

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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If you need any extra support throughout the interview process, then please email us at [email protected]