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Trainline • London, United Kingdom

Management Accountant - 12 Month FTC

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79%

Mission

79%

Hours flexibility

79%

Autonomy

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Job Description

Company Description

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid, and Brussels. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.

Job Description

In this key, business facing role, you’ll be responsible for preparation, reporting and commentary on P&L costs for the Marketing function as well as other General Overheads for the Group (including Corporate Finance, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs). Bringing strong business partnering skills and a confidence in presenting financial information to senior non-finance staff, you’ll provide meaningful insight to help the business track against its budget and forecasts. In addition, you’ll input into the monthly management accounts, and will use your broader business knowledge to provide meaningful commentary, performance analysis and explanations of significant variances to budget at a level of detail and tone appropriate for the Board.

As a visible member of the Finance team, you’ll be first port-of-call for queries relating to costs from a range of stakeholders across the business. This will include collaborating with teams based in London, Edinburgh and Paris to investigate problems and explore solutions. You’ll also be helping to support and mentor other junior team members in this large yet close knit team.

Our ever-expanding business changes by the day. With this comes a wealth of ad-hoc projects and process improvements we’ll seek your involvement in. As such, we’re looking for someone with initiative who can recognise and act on these opportunities for change and is keen to get involved with new projects to help the business and

Responsibilities

  • Business partnering and leading meetings with business heads to present key variance analysis and other commentary on cost areas
  • Developing and maintaining a solid understanding of business risks and opportunities to analyse performance, identify interdependencies and to provide insightful commentary and explain significant variances to budget and forecast
  • Taking a key role in annual budget and ongoing reforecast processes, liaising with the business and utilising understanding to present coherent proposals
  • Preparing month end journals, balance sheet reconcilations and supporting working papers, and reviewing the work of junior team members
  • Assisting in interim and year-end audit requirements

Qualifications

  • A qualified ACA or CIMA accountant (or equivalent), either newly qualified or with 1-2 years’ PQE
  • Strong academic background
  • Analytically minded with a blend of commercial know-how, financial discipline and technical accounting knowledge
  • Strong interpersonal skills necessary to build key relationships with senior members of the Group’s executive team
  • A confident communicator with the ability to deliver messages and plans to fellow stakeholders at all levels
  • Excellent at project and task management with the ability to adapt quickly to new situations and priorities
  • Proactive with a can-do attitude and a desire to take ownership
  • Intermediate Excel skills

This 12 month contract can be based out of our London or Edinburgh office, we offer hybrid working from either location but the role can not be fully remote.

Additional Information

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:

💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail

✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey

🤝 Travel Together - We're one team

♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!

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Company benefits

Work from anywhere scheme – work from abroad for up to 28 days a year
2 extra days over the Festive period & 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Buy or sell annual leave – buy or sell up to 3 days each year
Shared parental leave
Caregiver Leave – primary & secondary
L&D budget – £300 a year
Personal development days – 4 meeting free Learning Days a year
Health insurance – Bupa Health Insurance for you and your family
Enhanced sick pay – 8 weeks full pay, 18 weeks 75% pay per 12 month period
Free meals – free breakfast & soft drinks every day, monthly lunches and evening socials
Share options
Dental coverage – Bupa Dental Insurance for you and your family
Health assessment – Free annual health check for all employees
Life assurance
Accrued annual leave – carry over 5 days of annual leave each year
Income protection – 75% of your salary
Private GP service – with Bupa
Complimentary Medical Services – Flu vaccinations
Employee assistance programme
Adoption leave – 52 weeks
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave – 2 weeks
Compassionate leave
Mental health platform access
Eye Care Support – vouchers
Annual pay rises – Based on bi-annual performance reviews
Salary sacrifice
Volunteer days – 1 day a year to volunteer with a charity of your choice
Charity donation scheme – Charity matching & Give as you earn
Perkbox subscription
Professional subscriptions
Hackathons
Gym membership – GymFlex scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Buddy scheme
Optional unpaid leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Flexible working week
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Trainline what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
73%
Employees are largely happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
79%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
70%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
70%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
69%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
79%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
72%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
71%
Employees feel that the culture supports equity and inclusivity well
Culture
77%
Employees enjoy the working environment
Mission
79%
Employees feel quite excited about the company mission
Salary
64%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Trainline

Company employees

1000+

Gender diversity (male:female)

60:40

Currently Hiring Countries

United Kingdom

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