Junior Group Accountant

Secret Escapes; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Work From Anywhere scheme

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

A leading luxury travel company is seeking a Junior Group Accountant to support financial processes and compliance. Responsibilities include managing statutory audits, intercompany transactions, and month-end processes. Ideal candidates should be part-qualified accountants with strong IFRS knowledge and excellent communication skills. This role allows hybrid working conditions and provides opportunities for personal growth within a supportive team environment. Join us in maintaining robust financial foundations and enhancing our travel offerings.

Qualifications

• Strong academic record with technical experience of IFRS.
• Confident in statutory accounts preparation and audits.
• Ability to communicate effectively with management and external firms.

Responsibilities

• Support the Group statutory audit and consolidation process.
• Support the year-end accounts and audits of Group subsidiaries.
• Manage intercompany recharges and reconciliations.

Skills

IFRS knowledge

Statutory accounts preparation

Foreign entities experience

Intercompany transaction management

Excellent communication skills

Excel proficiency

Education

Part-qualified accountant (ACCA)

Job description

The Junior Group Accountant is a key member of the Finance team at Secret Escapes. In this broad and varied role, you will be an essential support to the wider business by contributing to the Group accounting processes, including statutory compliance, and being an integral part of ensuring strong financial foundations are maintained.

About Secret Escapes

Secret Escapes is one of the world’s leading members‑only, online travel deals companies, offering inspiring travel experiences and hand‑picked offers to over 60 million members worldwide. Operating in 10 countries across Europe, Secret Escapes continues to grow and establish itself as a world‑class business, dedicated to giving our members the best range and value in luxury travel deals at low prices.

We operate a hybrid working model where colleagues come into the office in London 3 days a week. We also offer flexible working with core hours between 10 am to 4 pm, and you have the freedom to schedule the remaining hours to suit your routine. As an inspiring travel brand, we also provide a “Work From Anywhere” scheme giving you the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world. This benefit is designed both to feed our travel passion and support parents and carers, especially during school holidays.

We’re a diverse and inclusive bunch of individuals from different backgrounds and with varied interests, but the one thing we all have in common is that we’re good people (even if we do say so ourselves!).

The role & things you’ll be working on

• Supporting the Group statutory audit, including contributing to the Group consolidation process
• Supporting the year end accounts and audits of the Group subsidiaries
• Owning Group central processes for intercompany recharges and reconciliations, lease accounting and fixed assets
• Supporting the month end close process, including balance sheet reconciliations and monthly management accounts
• Preparing the information for the subsidiary VAT returns
• Owning the accurate and timely completion of Office for National Statistics (ONS) returns, ensuring that Secret Escapes remains compliant with external requirements.
• Ad hoc financial analysis and projects as required

The Team

We are one valued team of experts who build and maintain robust financial foundations, partner with our colleagues in other teams to deliver the strategy, and drive successful corporate development activity. We are hard‑working, data‑driven, supportive, and enjoy a team lunch and a quiz or two!

You will bring

• Strong academic record and technical experience of IFRS
• Confident with Statutory accounts preparation and audits
• Experience with foreign entities and multicurrency consolidations
• Experience managing intercompany transactions and the reconciliation of intercompany balances
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively with colleagues at all levels of management as well as external accounting firms
• Excellent user of Microsoft Excel

And you are..

• Part‑qualified accountant (ACCA)
• Someone who is keen to have real ownership within a business
• A technically confident team player with excellent communication skills
• A self‑starter who can deliver high quality outputs independently
• Pragmatic and commercially aware, with excellent attention to detail

We are an equal opportunity employer

Diversity and inclusion are important to us at Secret Escapes and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We value and actively seek out a richly diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.