Finance Manager, loveholidays
Technical and Projects
In office from Tue-Thurs
3+ days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
Holiday booking service
Be an early applicant
Holiday booking service
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
In office from Tue-Thurs
3+ days a week in office (Hammersmith, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Loveholiday's mission is to create the ultimate online travel experience.
Role
Who you are
- Sound understanding of IFRS
- Practice trained, ACA qualified (Top 6 Tier firm)
- Ability to appreciate business implications and bigger picture alongside understanding the detail of the process
- Experience with interpreting technical accounting standards and preparing robust management papers
- Ability to work under-pressure in a fast paced environment
- Excellent project managing skills ensuring delivery to deadlines
- Robust understanding of best practice internal controls
Desirable
- G Suite experience
- Experience working in the tech/ travel sector
- Knowledge of German GAAP
What the job involves
- Reporting into the Head of Reporting and Control, this Finance Manager will manage the annual audit process, provide technical support to the wider finance team and business and ensure best practice within the reporting and control environment
- Manage the annual and interim audit process, ensuring the results are materially correct and that management papers and supporting workbooks are of the highest quality
- Delivery of the Financial Statements for the group by the end of February
- Ownership of the Cashflow statements and other tax, technical areas in the month end process with support of the direct report
- Be the day-to-day go to person for any technical accounting and reporting queries
- Manage the tax relationships for the group liaising with external advisors for VAT/ C.T/ T.P
- Identifying and project managing process improvement initiatives and other ad hoc projects
Application process
- Talent Acquisition Partner screening - 30 mins
- 1st stage with Hiring Manager & Snr FM - 45 mins (competency based)
- Case Study - review of financial statements and tailored questions regarding the business risks - 1 hr timed task
- Final stage with key stakeholder/s in office - 1 hour - GFC and Group VP
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Travel, both domestic and overseas, has been a huge part of the British economy since the late 20th century. In 2019, UK residents spent £43 billion on foreign holidays - almost double the amount spent a decade before.
Despite travel companies suffering considerable reputation damage back in 2020, as they struggled to refund customers whose booked holidays were suddenly cancelled, the appeal of companies like loveholidays to holidaymakers will undoubtedly endure seeing as they make the process of booking holidays much easier.
In the nearest future, loveholidays will need to focus on maintaining its reputation, especially given the wide array of direct competitors who could steal market share. At present, however, loveholidays is still one of the fastest growing online travel agents. If it can keep up the practices which have brought it success over the past 10 years, loveholidays is still in a good position to keep its growth strong for few years to come.
Kirsty
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Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2016
$4m
EARLY VC
May 2011
$2.7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $6.7m
Company benefits
- Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends
- 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- Company pension contributions at 5%
- Individual training budget for courses, seminars and memberships to professional bodies
- High degree of autonomy in a strong collaborative environment
- Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers
- Hybrid working with 3 days working in our office (London) and 2 days WFH per week
- Sustainably sourced fruit baskets in the office kitchen
- Increased annual leave for long service
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
- Enhanced maternity pay = 6 weeks of full pay and 20 weeks at 50% pay
- Enhanced paternity pay = 4 weeks of full pay
Company values
- We are entrepreneurs - We’re proudly commercial, we do more with less, we own the decisions we make and the actions we take
- Everything is written in pencil - As we grow, we think smaller, act quicker and continuously evolve the way we organise our work
- We organise for speed - A flat structure with small teams, allows us to move quickly
- We believe in Team - We’re all in it together
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jonny Marsh
(Non Executive Director)An engineering graduate from the University of Bath, Jonny is also the founder and ex-CEO of nmqa Ltd and co-founder of travelmatch. He served as Loveholiday's COO until 2019.
Alex Francis
(Non Executive Director)Founded travelmatch in 2007 and then loveholidays in 2012, quickly becoming the fastest growing business in the UK by 2019. Now acting as a non-exec for the business since stepping down as CEO in 2020.
People progressing
Joined as UX/Design Manager in 2011, promoted 3 times in 10 years to current position of Lead User Researcher, having previously worked as Senior Product Designer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at loveholidays
Clodagh Beatty (Head of Talent Management, Learning & DE&I)
- We recently hired a Head of L&D, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to support us in our ongoing commitments to creating an inclusive environment, as well as providing growth opportunities for all our employees
- We want all applicants to feel they can belong at loveholidays
- We have employees from all walks of life and we are only interested in assessing your skills, attitude and talent!
- We support Employee Resource Groups - recently launched our Women's Network at loveholidays
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