Finance Operations Team Lead, CarTrawler
FTC
Car rental & mobility solutions
Posted today
Car rental & mobility solutions
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable the world's leading brands in travel to offer better transport services to their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 3 years' experience of working in an accounts assistant type role in a large finance team
- Experience and knowledge of working in a finance team in the technology or travel sectors
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Strong organisational and multitasking abilities
- Ownership – will take responsibility for delivery of objectives for your team to agreed standard and timeline
- Excellent attention to detail
- Proficient Microsoft excel skills and experience working with finance systems e.g. Microsoft AX, SAP Concur
- Delegation – ability to delegate workload appropriately to your team
- Ability to motivate and engage team
What the job involves
- The Finance Operations Team Lead is responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the accounts payable and banking team, ensuring that all payments and bank receipts and payments are processed accurately, efficiently, and in compliance with company policies and financial regulations
- This role involves leading and developing a team of AP professionals, managing vendor relationships, and driving process improvements within the AP function. The ideal candidate will have an interest in progressing their leadership abilities, in-depth knowledge of accounts payable processes, and a keen eye for detail
- Reporting to: Finance Operations Manager
- Lead and manage a team of accounts assistants, focusing on the accurate and timely processing of vendor payments, bank receipts/payments and partner payments
- Delegate tasks, manage workloads, and ensure all team members meet their deadlines
- Conduct regular team meetings to review performance, discuss challenges, and implement improvements
- Oversee and review the processing of AP payment runs, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Review and approve payment runs and bank reconciliations, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures
- Handle escalated issues related to invoice discrepancies, payment delays, and vendor inquiries
- Manage queries and maintain approvals for AP process for SAP Concur
- Support the team for escalated queries from PRM and CarTrawler’s partners for partners payment process and MOR receivable process
- Review the teams monthly management accounts tasks and ensure appropriate controls are maintained effectively
- Identify opportunities to streamline payment processing and reconciliation procedures
- Implement best practices and process improvements to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of the team’s operations
- Hiring, onboarding & successfully embedding new employees to enable them to thrive within CarTrawler
- Providing ongoing feedback & coaching by having constructive development conversations with your team as part of our performance and development process
- Providing clarity on company strategy and hold team accountable by having regular 121’s
- Leads, motivates and inspires by role modelling our company values
- Finance Team – Finance Operations Manager, Senior Group Finance Ops and Reporting Manager, Group Financial Controller
- External Stakeholders – Banks, Partners, Group Auditors
- Internal Stakeholders – The nature of this role requires effective stakeholder management with Treasury, Partner Relationship Management and Commercial Finance
Our take
CarTrawler provides car rental and mobility solutions to travel industry players, enabling them to supplement their revenue and improve the experiences of their customers. It runs what is essentially a B2B marketplace for car rentals, through which airlines and travel agents can offer their clients end-to-end travel options.
Like many of its travel industry peers, the company has felt the pinch in recent years due to the after-effects of the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis. Despite this, CarTrawler has remained positive that it can capture further success in the new-look economy. It has continued to pursue new partnerships and expand its North American presence, already boasting a network of key players including United Airlines, easyJet, Uber, Emirates and Hotels.com.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2020
$115.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $115.7m
Company benefits
- 25 days annual leave, plus company days
- “Friday Unplugged” – last Friday of every month we have a half-day mental health break day
- Maternity & paternity leave, wedding leave & parents leave
- Bespoke career pathing platform
- Online behavioural & technical academy
- Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging seminars
- Hybrid working model
- Modern, open plan offices just a stone’s throw from Dublin City Centre
- Chill Out Room – designed to give our employees a relaxation space during their work day
- Free weekly yoga classes, VHI online fitness classes, weekly tennis, running and 5-a-side football
- Charity runs
- Pension scheme
- Comprehensive VHI health insurance
- In-house health screenings
- Optional flu vaccinations
- Income protection & life assurance
- New mothers’ lactation room
- We have several employee cohorts across the business that you can become a part of, such as Sports and Social Club, Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, Engagement Champion Network, etc
- Travel Tax Saver Schemes for rail and bus
- On-demand ride-hailing app with discounts exclusively for CarTrawler employees
- Bike to Work scheme and secure bike storage
Company HQ
Farranboley, Dublin, Ireland
Leadership
Peter O'Donovan
(CEO)Previously the COO of Cartrawler, CPO at Paddy Power and Betfair and Non-Exec Director at Mick's Garage.
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