Finance Executive

British Airways; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job description

British Airways Holidays

Our colleagues and customers are at the heart of everything we do.

We’re one of the UK’s leading and most trusted tour operators. We provide holiday packages, hotels, car hire and experiences via ba.com and the British Airways contact centres. From carefully selected hotels to our 24-hour support helpline we take every element of our customers’ holidays seriously.

Here at British Airways Holidays we are in the privileged position to be part of the growing IAG Loyalty Group-made up of British Airways Holidays, Loyalty (the home of Avios) and The Wine Flyer. Having all the advantages of being in this strong collective, coupled with all the benefits that come with working in a smaller company. All 360 of us! Our passion, excellence, creativity and warmth are the special qualities that make all of us at British Airways Holidays who we are.

Our business is growing and has ambitious plans, so it’s a really exciting time to join our team.

About The Role

Here at British Airways Holidays, a lot of our hotel suppliers pay via virtual payment rather than by invoice, leading to a more efficient payment process. You will receive communication either by email or telephone from a huge number of international hotel suppliers across the globe to assist them with processing payments in any currency via this platform. This communication may also be received via another department within British Airways Holidays.

In a brilliant small team where there is a strong emphasis on teamwork, pulling together for the overall delivery. You will be undertaking double entry General Ledger work and assisting with reconciling accounts including month end preparation. You will arrange for sufficient funds to maintain the accessibility of the virtual credit card pools.

This is a busy, high volume, multi-tasking role. You need to be incredibly organised to be able to quickly assist and troubleshoot any issues and to work to multiple deadlines.

This is a great opportunity to work in a Finance role, for a great brand, support international suppliers and work in a supportive and hands on team.

Key Responsibilities

• You will be reconciling the charges from American Express in USD, EUR, and GBP
• Posting entries on our General Ledger system
• Undertake double entry General Ledger work
• Take ownership for investigating and resolving all queries raised by the Virtual payment process
• Accountable for reviewing and preparing regular payments to American Express
• Build a positive relationship with internal and external customers
• Accountable for accounting adjustments on holiday bookings
• Accountable for preparing and reconciling allocated balance sheet accounts
• Be able to produce and work with Pivot tables in Excel

What you will bring:

• Proven experience in a finance role
• Proven experience with undertaking General Ledger
• Proven experience in carrying out reconciliations
• Proven experience in using several financial systems
• Proven ability to work with a high volume of queries that need to be turned around quickly
• Analytical and logical thinking to troubleshoot queries quickly and accurately update financial data.
• Able to demonstrate communication & interpersonal skills as you work with a huge variety of suppliers.
• Ability to work with Pivot tables in Excel

What we can offer you

Up to £27,000 per annum salary (this may vary depending on your relevant skills and experience)

Our offices are based in central Crawley, and we offer hybrid working (within the UK only). Generally, this role works from our office one day a week, with additional days as needed depending on meetings etc. Office days are co-ordinated so that colleagues in the same team are in the office together to collaborate in person.

We usually support new colleagues in the office full time for the first few weeks. This can be extended to allow training to be completed to a satisfactory level.

Key benefits include

• 25 days holiday per calendar year, increasing by one day for every two complete years, to a maximum of 30 days, plus normal bank holidays.
• Unlimited standby and premium standby fares for you and your nominees on the BA network and partner airlines, from day one
• Discounts on BA flights and holidays from day one for you, your friends and family
• Flexible start & finish times
• Annual incentive scheme and salary review (dependent on company & individual performance)
• Company contributory pension scheme up to a maximum of 5% colleague and 11% company contributions.
• Flexible benefits package including generous life assurance cover, plus options such as dental/medical cover, and cycle to work, technology and electric car schemes.
• Range of colleague wellbeing and recognition programmes

Diversity, equality & inclusion are all important to us. We believe a diverse and inclusive workplace contributes to our sense of wellbeing and belonging, enabling us all to thrive professionally and personally. Equality and equity are important in ensuring that everyone is treated fairly. Our focus is on creating a positive and inclusive working environment for all.

• We aim to be inclusive – everyone feels valued and respected as an individual.
• We aim to ensure equality and equity – everyone treated fairly as individuals with recognition of unique differences.
• We aim to be diverse – with a mix of colleagues representing our community.

We are advertising this role as a permanent full-time role, however if you would like to apply on a part-time basis, you are welcome to open a discussion about this at the stage of the application process that suits you.

Closing date for applications is: 14th February

Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.