Finance Assistant London, England
Job description
Flash Pack creates boutique group adventures for solo travellers aged 30-49.
We launched in 2014 to disrupt outdated clichés associated with group tours and empower a new generation of bold, energetic solo travellers in their 30s and 40s. This untapped demographic had not only been underserved by the travel industry, but misunderstood.
We quickly transformed into a high-growth, mid-stage start-up connecting Flashpackers in over 15 global markets. Customers who travelled with us LOVED it – and we grew really fast as a result. Then Covid hit the travel industry. The last 18 months have been a journey but we’re back with the support of fantastic venture capitalists, and have massive plans for global expansion in 2022 and beyond.
Now, our mission is to create one million friendships through the power of group adventure. To reignite human connection and bring like-minded solo travellers in their 30s and 40s back together, on luxurious, authentic adventures, packed with hard-to-do-by-yourself experiences, that create lasting friendships. In fact, 80% of Flashpackers already stay in touch. And over 60% now come from outside the UK, bringing with it the potential for sustainable but rapid growth.
International demand for solo travel is starting to boom once again – and Flash Pack is here to lead the charge of a growing global movement. To fulfil this mission, we’re expanding our team with some of the best talent around. That’s where you come in…
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for an enthusiastic Finance Assistant to join our Finance Function. This role is key to the accuracy of Finance at Flash Pack and will report into our Finance Manager. The right person will have exposure across the entire business, partnering with different departments as needed but initially focusing on transactional finance and data surrounding it.
The role will focus on the recording and maintaining of accurate financial transactions with the opportunity to gain exposure to month end and reporting. The right person will have the opportunity to progress to a Management Accountant over time and gain more exposure to accounting. Sound like you? Read on.
This is a Remote Flexible role meaning that while it is contracted to the London office there is flexibility to work from home the majority of the time. The whole company currently meets in the London office once every six weeks for an off-site collaboration day and your team may meet a little more regularly for team working and adhoc events such as interview days, onboarding and training.
What you’ll be doing:
Recording transactions - you will have attention to detail when maintaining our financial transactions in terms of their accuracy.
Reconciling customer payments - you will lead on the reconciling and therefore accuracy of payments made by our customers via our payment processor and into our accounting software.
- Credit control - you will be a business partner to other departments to confirm customer payments are received in a timely manner.
- Supplier invoicing - you will maintain our supplier inbox to ensure timely receipt of invoices and timely payments are made.
- Regular bank reconciliations, as well as reconciling between our booking engine and accounting software.
- Ad hoc project work - you will gain exposure to other departments and the CFO on a variety of ad hoc projects.
We’re after the right person and as such you don’t have to tick all these boxes, as we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified.
Apply if you don’t quite tick all of the boxes but can hit the majority.
What we are looking for:
- Experience in a finance role - you have worked in a finance role for more than a year.
- High attention to detail - you are thorough and focused, usually picking up errors others have failed to notice
- Excellent communicator - you can communicate confidently and authoritatively with a wide variety of stakeholders
- Organised and able to work under pressure - you are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and can juggle multiple tasks at the same time.
- Proactive learner - you have an interest in both travel and finance, and are willing to do what it takes to become an expert in Finance at Flash Pack.
- Roll with it. You understand that start-ups are unpredictable environments. You’re flexible, comfortable with a degree of chaos and can handle challenging situations
- Be nice. You get that the team is more important than yourself
The nice-to-haves:
- Experience with Xero and general cloud based software
- Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment
- Experience in travel or leisure
Sound good? Then join our mission to create one million friendships through group adventure – and a friendly and energetic global team on the cusp of worldwide expansion.
Hours: This role is Monday to Friday but you should be happy working some evenings and weekends if required
Salary: The salary range for this role is between £28,200 - £30,600 depending on experience. We also offer stock options after your first year with the company. (The stock option value for this role is up to £3,000). We operate with pay transparency, please see here for pay scales by department.
Location: We call our way of working ‘remote-flexible’. You can read more about it here. You can work from anywhere in the UK as long as you are happy to come to London every 4-6 weeks or so. If you enjoy more regular face to face interaction, living close to London would be advantageous.
Our culture: We revolve around high performance, high conviction and humility. We value teamwork over grandiosity, great questions over corporate euphemisms and autonomy over conformity. We care deeply about surrounding ourselves with ambitious, exceptional but humble people and believe that our culture is our greatest advantage against our competitors as well as thriving as the industry changes.
What’s in it for you?
- You’ll get 25 days annual leave, excluding bank holidays plus an extra day off on your birthday
- A remote-first office. We don’t care where you work from as long as you hit your targets.
- The opportunity to travel and experience a Flash Pack trip
- A diverse and inclusive team, with people from all walks of life
- Quarterly company-wide socials in London, and regular spontaneous work events
- Stock options that mean something
- We have a flexible office space in Central London where you can float in and out to brainstorm, catch-up, have 1-2-1s and socialise. We aim to meet up as a whole company once every four weeks.
Diversity & Inclusion
We’re led by a BAME, female CEO and building a diverse and inclusive team is incredibly important to us. As we rebuild Flash Pack post-pandemic we’ll be focused on promoting self-education through our anti-racism and anti-sexism reading list and building diversity and inclusion into the company hiring, performance and progression framework. If you would like to talk to us about these efforts, or have suggestions for how we can do better, we would love to hear from you.
Flash Pack is proud to be an equal opportunities employer: At Flash Pack we embrace diversity and see it as a key competitive advantage. There is always more we can do but that's why we're committed to hiring top talent regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or status as an individual with a disability.
We’re a growing team and happy to make any accommodations we can for individual needs. If you have an additional accessibility or other requirement we haven’t considered, we will do our best to adapt and make sure your needs are met.
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