Travel Accounting Associate - Maternity Cover

At A Glance

Reporting directly to the Travel Accounting Assistant Manager, the Travel Accounting Associate is part of a team responsible for processing of 100-150 statements and approximately 350,000-450,000 bookings at a value of £300m-£500m per month. With the team receiving approximately 5,000-10,000 queries per month, the role is also required to investigate and resolve these queries in a professional and timely fashion.

The Travel Accounting Associate is expected to build a positive working relationship with all key stakeholders, and deliver a best-in-class service.

What You'll Be Doing

- Process supplier statements in a timely manner and in accordance to contractual terms
- Review MTO and Falcon worked statements and process final reconciliations in a timely manner
- Liaise with Retail for all under/over collected bookings
- Resolve queries and issues raised by internal and external parties in a timely manner
- Resolve the escalation of queries from supplier shops and the offshore partner
- Review and process supplier vouchers
- Clear RBS interfaces and job requests on a daily basis
- Resolve all debit balances on RBS in accordance with guidelines
- Assist the Travel Accounting Specialist with activities to provide cover, including processing the accurate payment of 3rd party suppliers
- Support and implement continuous improvement opportunities (both system and procedural)
- Ensure all internal controls are fully adhered to and make recommendations for improvement
- Ensure records are maintained and archived to satisfy audit and statutory requirements
- Undertake other adhoc activities as deemed necessary

What We're Looking For

- Experience of working in a Payables role
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent customer service
- Good communication skills, both written and oral
- Good organisational skills - able to work to tight deadlines
- Good interpersonal skills including persuasiveness and/or assertiveness skills
- Good influencing skills
- Competent user of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Experience of working with an offshore partner an advantage
- Experience of working in a Shared Service Centre an advantage

What We Can Offer

- Competitive salary & Generous holiday concessions
- Reward scheme - online discounts on products & services plus late seat & accommodation offers
- Foreign exchange discount at TUI retail outlets plus In-flight discount of 20%
- Childcare vouchers & cycle to work scheme
- Contributory Pension scheme
- Career progression opportunities

Job Division: Mainstream
Location: Wigmore House