Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world’s rail, coach and other travel services into one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We’re hugely proud to be the world’s leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That’s more than £3.7 billion in ticket sales annually, and over 90 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is now part of the FTSE 250.

Our culture is central to our success. We’re driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we’re always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It’s this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager on a 12-month fixed term contract to come in and lead our monthly accounting and reporting cycle, as well as cost control and forecasting, the ideal candidate will have great initiative and be able to consider ‘the big picture’. Brilliant prioritisation and being seen as a supportive manager will be absolutely key.

The role will lead a team of up to 7 people and report to the Group Financial Controller. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills and a dynamic leader who has the ability to work autonomously as well as closely with others.

Day-to-day financial management and control is naturally a core aspect of the role, but we are looking for someone who offers that extra bit more - someone who is able to stand back and assess the consequences of commercial changes from an accounting perspective and consider what the broader impact will be. On the back of this, you will bring ideas about what ‘good’ looks like in terms of process, and seek opportunity to automate wherever you can, supported by our data teams.

You will also be the core finance business contact for our senior leadership teams, staying close to the pulse of what is changing in the ecomm landscape, and delivering the best service to our customers.

On a typical day, you may be leading the team through the month end close, helping troubleshoot problems and identifying areas for future improvement. The next, you may be working with one of our data specialists to help automate processes or with our tax team on transfer pricing policy. Working in a rapidly growing business like ours, there is always a new challenge and opportunities to develop your skill set and turn your hand to new things.

Responsibilities

• Management, development and mentoring of a team of 7 – including oversight, review and ultimate responsibility for the output of the team
• Complete ownership of the monthly accounting and reporting cycle, ensuring reporting and commentary is accurate and on time
• Presenting and explaining key results to senior leadership, including the CFO and CEO
• Business partnering with members of the executive team to support their financial objectives
• Supporting the FP&A team with the annual budget and three-year plan process, and quarterly reforecasting
• Supporting the Group Reporting team with the annual and half-year account preparation, including working directly with the group auditors
• Ownership of the annual insurance renewal process, working with both our insurance broker and our risk committee
• Partnering with our finance data team as we migrate to a new data lake, including verifying the accuracy of the migration and building new reporting
• Working closely with the Edinburgh and Paris teams to gain full understanding of any developments impacting your areas of responsibility
• Taking the lead on ad hoc projects as they arise

• Qualified senior accountant with broad experience (5+ years PQE)
• Excellent team management skills to support and encourage your direct team
• Background in financial management, internal control and management reporting
• Proven track record in developing processes for operational change and enhancing existing processes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment with the ability to quickly re-prioritise and help a team to do the same
• Naturally inquisitive and analytical mindset, be able to quickly grasp the fundamentals of complex systems and processes, explaining and presenting them to others is an easy to understand way
• Comfortable working in a high transactional volume, multi-currency and multi­national environment

‘Nice to have ‘ Experience

• E-commerce or big data experience
• Proven track record of working with teams in multi-site locations
• Previous experience business partnering outside finance

We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.

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