Group Accountant, Go City
£60-70k
2-5 days a week in office
Travel and tourism app
Be an early applicant
Travel and tourism app
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£60-70k
2-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make sightseeing simple, flexible, and unforgettable.
Role
Who you are
- ACA or equivalent qualification required, audit background would be a plus
- 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, including consolidations
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, particularly with UK GAAP consolidation and reporting standards
- Experience working in a multinational organisation with multiple currencies and complex structures
- Proven track record of improving controls and processes
- Excellent analytical skills with a strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- Go City is seeking a hands-on, technically strong Group Accountant to join our global financial consolidation and reporting team
- Reporting directly into the Head of Financial Control & Reporting, this role will be pivotal in ensuring accurate, timely reporting and strong financial governance across multiple entities
- The successful candidate will support with driving efficiency and accuracy, while being an approachable and supportive team member
- Own the global consolidation process, ensuring timely and accurate preparation of monthly consolidated financial statements
- Own the consolidation of multiple entities across various regions, ensuring compliance with UK GAAP and other relevant accounting standards
- Process consolidation adjustments, including intercompany eliminations, currency translation, and non-controlling interest calculations
- Process subsidiary inputs, ensuring compliance with established accounting policies, standards, and timelines
- Prepare and review financial statements for the organisation’s legal entities in UK (Group, entity), Germany, Ireland, Singapore, in compliance with local statutory reporting requirements
- Act as a key liaison with auditors in UK (Group, entity), Germany, Ireland, Singapore, providing support and documentation for the annual audit process
- Partner with Finance Team to ensure the accurate and timely submission of financial data to auditors
- Ensure adherence to corporate tax requirements in UK, Germany, Ireland, Singapore, Korea, United States, working alongside external consultants
- Own all corporate tax general ledger transaction postings
- Ensure all corporate tax filings are made in an accurate and timely manner
- Ensure adherence to regulatory and statutory requirements, and other applicable obligations, in UK, Germany, Ireland, Singapore, Korea, United States, Hong Kong, working alongside external consultants
- Review daily Treasury Team inputs into Daily Cash Flow Tracker
- Review weekly Accounts Payable schedules of payments to be made, making any necessary amends based on cash flow availability
- Manage critical lender interest payments, instigating these with Treasury Team
- Manage currency cash pots, instigating currency to currency transfers with Treasury Team as needed
- Manage 4-week Daily Cash Flow Tracker outlook, and report on this to Senior Leadership
- Assist in the preparation of cash flow budgets and cash flow forecasts as needed
- Own the Month End accounting for the organisation’s holding company structure and ensure that all required general ledger transaction postings are made
- Prepare all holding company structure account reconciliations and supporting schedules
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting of the holding company structure to Finance Team stakeholders
- Act as the primary point of contact for the holding company structure accounting matters
- Own any non-standard, or more complex, trading entity general ledger transaction postings that may be required
- Lender ad-hoc reporting as needed
- Investor ad-hoc reporting as needed
- Ensure compliance with external reporting requirements, specifically ESG filings
- Support compliance with indirect taxation requirements
- Identify opportunities to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of processes and reporting through automation and system improvements
- Implement new tools, technologies, and best practices to optimise reporting
- Train and mentor team members on consolidation and reporting processes and system solutions to build a high-performing and knowledgeable Finance Team
- Develop and maintain detailed documentation of processes and controls
- Ensure adherence to internal control policies and procedures related to consolidations and reporting
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The global travel and tourism industry is booming, reaching a record-breaking value of $11.1T in 2024, far surpassing pre-pandemic levels. This massive boost sets the stage for even more growth in the coming years. Go City (formerly Leisure Pass Group) is a multi-attraction pass platform and app hoping to use its “one pass, all the sights” tagline to shape the way users travel and explore new destinations.
Since its founding, Go City has become one of the largest sightseeing pass businesses. Users can pre-purchase attraction tickets, tours and activities, enabling them to budget pre-holiday, which has been one of the company's more attractive features. GoCity began with just one pass in its portfolio and has since grown to 30, and it's now available in over 25 locations, including London, New York and Paris.
Investments and a brand refresh have ignited a strong drive for growth. With this, the company is planning to invest further in brand campaigns, connecting users to rapidly expanding benefits and exciting features.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- 10x Go City Explorer Passes per year
- Enhanced pension contributions (5% employer)
- Life assurance: 4x your base salary
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme
- Annual leave: 25 days + bank holidays
- Option to rollover or buy additional 5 days annual leave per year
- 1x Community day. Take a day off to give back to the community
- Primary parental leave: 13 weeks 100% + 13 weeks 50%
- Secondary parental leave: 3 weeks 100%
- Work from Anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
- Health care cash plan
- Personal Learning budget via Happl & dedicated time for development
- EAP providing access to counselling, finance support, etc.
- Cycle to Work Scheme
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jas Burton
(CFO)Previously the Financial Director for Tesco, the TJX Group, Domino's and Boots.
Sean O'Connell
(CEO)Sean is also an Advisor at LDVY Consulting. Previously CEO of Streetbees, Chief Digital Officer at Ascential and was Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Playsafe.
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