Revenue Management Accountant, Secret Escapes
12 month FTC
1+ day a week in office
Luxury travel platform
Job no longer available
Luxury travel platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Secret Escapes' mission is to enable every member to experience inspiring escapes.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum part-qualified in ACA/ACCA/CIMA (or equivalent), with demonstrated progress beyond foundational levels
- Advanced Excel skills, including Pivot tables, LOOKUPS, SUMIFS, with a strong aptitude for learning SQL, Power Query, and leveraging AI technologies
- Strong attention to detail with a commercially minded approach
- Proactive problem-solver with a track record of enhancing processes and delivering measurable results
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively with colleagues at all levels of management
What the job involves
- This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract
- This is an exciting opportunity to join and develop within our dynamic and data first finance team
- As a valuable member of the Accounting and Control team, you will play a pivotal role in getting under the hood of our core revenue streams and respective data, improving processes, and providing comprehensive analysis to give us greater confidence and understanding
- This role will report to our Senior Finance Manager and form part of the Accounting and Control Team - a crowd of 13 in total forming the engine room of the SE finance function
- Leveraging large data sets, you will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of our reported figures at month-end, maintaining a robust control environment, and aligning our reported figures with our in-depth understanding of the business
- This supports strategic decision making within the business and further strengthens our confidence in our regulatory and financial reporting
- Ensure accurate recording of revenue and costs from travel products by manipulating and comparing large data sets
- Conduct month-end variance analysis on revenue streams and related working capital balances, leveraging insights for forecasting enhancements
- Perform detailed balance sheet reconciliations, offering insightful analysis to identify discrepancies and drive improvements
- Leverage data to streamline activities, reducing manual intervention and enhancing overall financial control
- Collaborate with the finance transformation team to reduce the complexity of our financial records and enhance accounting system functionality
- Assist with year-end accounts preparation, acting as a key point of contact for audits and other ad-hoc reporting requirements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Secret Escapes operates a “members-only” site with hand-picked hotel and holiday time-limited offers. Each week it runs short ‘flash sales’ with as many as 140 sales going on at any one time, providing access to boutique experiences even to those who couldn't normally afford them.
The difference with online travel agents like Booking.com, is that Secret Escapes inspires travel by communicating great travel deals, rather than existing as a place where people visit to book trips they already have in mind. In fact, the majority of people who book through Secret Escapes say that they weren’t even planning trips to those destinations before doing so.
Like many of its travel market companions, Secret Escapes was affected by the pandemic, but survived due to an injection of investment from previously secured backers. The company smartly used the onset of mass customer service requests to better its customer service channels, and it now seems set to pursue the success it was on-course to achieve before this major upset.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2020
$72.6m
SERIES E
Jul 2018
$68.7m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $290.5m
Company benefits
- 20% staff discount of all Secret Escape bookings
- Holiday parties and quarterly results celebrations
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Alex Saint
(CEO)Started his career in marketing at Unilever before founding a travel deals company in 2005 and then Secret Escapes in 2010.
Tom Valentine
(Marketplaces CEO)Studied Psychology at Oxford before starting his career at eBay in Strategy & Business Development.
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