Assistant Financial Accountant

Collinson is the global privatelyowned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide marketleading airport experiences loyalty and customer engagement and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass the worlds original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1500 lounges and travel experiences including dining retail sleep and spa in over 650 airports in 148 countries helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the worlds leading payment networks over 1400 banks 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1800 global colleagues.

What does anAssistant Financial Accountant do at Collinson

The Assistant Financial Accountant will work within the Insurance finance team of the Collinson Group. They will work as an integral part of the finance team. The team will be responsible for the accurate monthly management accounts financial controls as well as support the production of the statutory accounts and being one of the key points of contact during the audit process.

The Assistant Financial Accountant will be responsible for the processing of financial transactions within the production of the monthly management accounts balance sheet reconciliations cashflow forecasts and other tasks relating to their entity. They will also support any process/ system changes within the team ensuring the onboarding process for new clients is set up and accounted for correctly as well as ensure a strong and effective control environment exists with a specific emphasis on improving month end close and accounting.

Key Responsibilities of this role include:

The key accountabilities of the Assistant Financial Accountant will encompass:

• To process the transactional journals in the production of high quality and timely management accounts
• Support the preparation of P&L trend analysis and analytical reviews for the entities to ensure Group and the business have a good insight into key movements and the financial performance of each entity
• Prepare period related balance sheet reconciliations ensuring all aged items are managed and cleared in a timely manner and maintain a schedule for each entity detailing the balances with supporting evidence to be reviewed at monthly BSR meetings
• Provide updates to the Financial Accountant of the intercompany position ensuring this is reconciled monthly to agree with the other group entities
• Assist the Financial Accountant across the lines of business (Travel Accident & Health and Multilines teams) to ensure accurate revenue commission and profit share accruals
• Collaborate with Finance Operations to ensure all transactions processed are accurate and complete and recorded in a timely manner
• Point of contact between Finance Operations SAP team and Financial Reporting for system and process change ensuring completion of tasks and flagging any issues if identified
• Support the Financial Accountant on all audits (including but not limited to internal 3^rd party or yearend) creating the year end Group Statutory packs with supporting evidence for balances as required as well as assist with audit requests by providing evidence for audit samples walkthroughs and explanations for postings and processes
• Assist in the completion of VAT Corporation Tax IPT and any 3rd party reporting as required.
• Assist in delivering the cashflow forecasts for their entity/entities
• Keeping abreast of accounting developments to ensure that the impact of changes are understood
• Ensuring all process documents are regularly reviewed and updated
• Strive to deliver process improvements delivering best in class processes

Key skills and experience to be evidenced within your application included:

• Part Qualified Accountant (ACCA CIMA AAT or Equivalent) or qualified by experience
• Good knowledge of SAP
• High personal levels of motivation and delivery orientated focus
• Able to work well under pressure
• A proactive forward looking and challenging mindset
• Detail focused with strong organisation and planning skills
• Ability to interact with and develop working relationships internally and externally in order to achieve best outcomes for the business and customer
• Knowledge and experience of best practice within industry to consistently improve delivery within department

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoing success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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