Trainline

About us:

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline ????

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.

Purpose of the Role

We are looking to hire an Interim Management Accountant on a fixed term contract, reporting directly to the Senior Finance Manager in our fast-paced, growing FTSE 250 listed global tech business.

In this key, business-facing role, you’ll be responsible for preparation, reporting and commentary on Overhead costs for the System and Tech functions as well as other General Overheads for the Group. Bringing strong business partnering skills and confidence in presenting financial information to senior non-finance staff, you’ll provide meaningful insight to help the business track against its budget. In addition, you’ll input into the monthly management accounts and will use your broader business knowledge to provide meaningful commentary, performance analysis and explanations of significant variances to budget at a level of detail and tone appropriate for the Board. With your enthusiasm and eagerness to learn, you'll be a key player in this dynamic, business-facing team.

As a visible member of the Finance team, you’ll be first port-of-call for queries relating to costs from a range of stakeholders, both internal and external, across the business. This will include collaborating with teams based in London, Edinburgh and Paris to investigate problems and explore solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the month-end reporting process for the Tech and Legal departments, as well as all Systems costs across the company – including preparing and posting journals, managing accruals and prepayments, performing account reconciliations, and conducting variance analysis
• Business Partnering with Legal, Systems, and Tech teams to provide financial support and insight behind the numbers
• Developing and maintaining a solid understanding of business risks and opportunities to analyse performance
• Complete relevant balance sheet reconciliations
• Manage the full budgeting and reforecasting cycles for Legal, Systems, and Tech costs
• Review and enhance internal financial processes within areas of responsibility
• Oversee the verification of the annual report and other externally published materials at half-year, full-year, and for ad hoc publications throughout the year
• Support the Interim Senior Finance Manager in preparing month-end reporting packs and ad hoc analysis
• Assist with the audit process, including responding to queries and providing relevant documentation
• Contribute to ad hoc project work as needed, based on business requirements

Qualifications

• A qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA accountant (or equivalent), either newly qualified or with 1–2 years’ PQE
• Strong academic background
• Analytically minded, with the ability to deep-dive into details while maintaining a commercial and strategic overview
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to influence stakeholders across all levels
• Strong project and task management skills; able to adapt quickly to changing priorities
• Proactive with a can-do attitude and a desire to take ownership
• Keen to work in a growing, dynamic, and fast-paced company
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Able to build and leverage relationships across finance and the wider business, including senior leadership
• Well-organised and able to manage and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:

• ???? Think Big - We're building the future of rail
• ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
• ???? Travel Together - We're one team
• ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!