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Virgin Atlantic Hiring for Finance Analyst – Financial Accounts Job at Crawley, West Sussex, South East England, England Full Time
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Hours: Monday – Friday 37.5hrs
Location: The VHQ, Crawley (hybrid expectations 2-3 days per week in the office
Contract: 11 month fixed term contract/secondment
Closing Date: Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Location
Crawley, West Sussex Further Information
Job Type
Finance
Ref
179905
Salary: Competitive
Hours: Monday – Friday 37.5hrs
Location: The VHQ, Crawley (hybrid expectations 2-3 days per week in the office
Contract: 11 month fixed term contract/secondment
Closing Date: Tuesday, 9 August 2022
Many of our staff at Virgin work flexibly and in many different ways, different core hours or remote working. Please talk to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we are happy to explore what’s possible for the role.
In a nutshell
As our Finance Analyst here at Virgin Atlantic, you’ll establish, operate, and control the financial accounting processes for Global operating and overhead costs. Delivering accurate, reliable, and timely books of account for the Group and its subsidiaries as well as overseeing the operation of IFRS accounting.
This role will be accountable for ensuring that the process is performed without issue each month end and for ensuring the accruals, reconciliation, and any necessary releases (including review of invoices) is performed on a timely basis.
Day to day
- The complete transfer of accounting transactions data into Oracle from underlying systems
- Ensure that all DOC’s are gathered and are complete reflecting all flights/movements in the period
- Accurate posting of all journals
- Deliver timely and accurate balance sheet reconciliation schedules to meet all statutory, regulatory, shareholder and management reporting requirements.
- Monitor and highlight instances of under/over provisioning
- Support the maintenance/integrity of mapping table within underlying systems and feed into Oracle
- Play an active role in the ongoing development of a best-in-class finance function, focusing on accruals, prepayments, payroll, cargo margin and overhead processes.
- Reviewing and challenging the calculations and output from systems
- Close promptly at month end, in accordance with internal timetables ensuring all expenses are correctly recorded.
- Be the primary point of contact for queries on the posting of actual results, with the ability to discuss and push back when required.
- Work with Accounts Payable to ensure that invoices received can be reconciled back to the accruals made
About you
Are you a strong communicator, who’s inquisitive and able to challenge and improve processes in finance-related roles?
In addition to the above, we are looking for:
- Part qualified in CIMA/ACCA/ACA
- Strong MS Office, and in particular Excel and experience of Oracle Financials are preferable
- Capability to prioritise work
- Analytically minded with attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
- Ability to communicate with senior levels of management, being able to explain complex processes in a succinct way
- Problem-solving skills within an overall business context
- Good written and verbal communication skills; ability to distil complex processes into clear simple messages
If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!
Be yourself – Our differences make us stronger
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic we believe everyone can take on the world – no matter your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference, and everything that makes our colleagues unique, by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible, and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.
You’ll be assessed against our values for a selection of your interview process, learn more about them here: Our Values