A great position has become available at Flight Centre Travel Group - one of the world’s largest travel retailers and corporate travel managers. The company, which is headquartered in Brisbane (Australia), has company-owned leisure and corporate travel business in 23 countries, spanning Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Asia.

The Role:

A highly team-based role, working closely and flexibly with other team members and team leads to ensure that the Accounts Payable Travel team delivers on its responsibilities across: Financial Control, Customer Focus and Process Efficiency. 

The role will require individuals to operate as subject matter experts across the tower’s functions and processes, with a deep understanding of end to end process flows to be able to trouble shoot and resolve queries. A key aspect of the role will be that of problem solving.

By being subject matter experts, team members will be able to ensure that the ever-evolving transactional processes are robust, streamlined and limit risk and fraud.

Key Performance Objectives:

• Reconciliation of credit card and supplier account statements
• Review of all reconciliations performed by offshore teams
• Processing and authorising supplier payments
• Liasing with wider UK based finance team to ensure integrity, accuracy and understanding of transactional finance to support the needs of the commercial finance teams.
• Ensure all key monthly activities are completed in a timely manner to support the month end reporting process.

• Working with key stakeholders to continuously review of all processes, to deliver on going efficiencies and frictionless processing of financial transactions.
• Constant review of exceptions, analysing for opportunities to reduce financial risk.
• Ongoing training and rollout of new and enhanced processes across the UK based team and offshored functions.
• Working with other transactional finance teams, (including Risk), to ensure seamless end to end transactional flows.
• Continuous review and analysis of productivity and SLA statistics to identify opportunities for improvement.

• First line support for onshore Admin Teams handling and resolving queries.
• Firstline support and query resolution for consultants and vendors, in relation to remittances and payments.
• Ensuring that all supplier payments are made within payment terms or SLA.

Criteria of Successful Candidate:

To be successful in the role the candidate will have the following key competences and experiences:

• Strong communication skills, both spoken and written, with an ability to communicate with finance and non-finance individuals
• A strong attention to detail and understanding of the importance of accuracy.
• Experience of complex statement reconciliations, including use of VLOOKUP’s, Pivot Tables and SUMIF.
• A logical approach to problem solving
• Appreciation of accounting fundamentals and importance of strong financial controls
• Ability to work to deadlines and deliver on commitments
• Strong customer service approach
• A genuine team player, appreciating the importance of team goals
• Proven ability to multitask
• Good time management; being flexible and adaptable
• A keen desire to learn new things
• A proven focus on improving efficiency and effectiveness of processes.

What we offer: