Senior Finance Analyst - Sport Travel

Senior Finance Analyst

Destination Sport Group

This is a hybrid role based in our Manchester office with flexibility for homeworking, so you must live within a commutable distance.

Destination Sport Group set the global standard in sports travel, offering a uniquely holistic approach to partnerships not seen before. Our unique global sports travel business offers our partners the very best in everything they need in order to succeed. We are proud to have 7 market leading sports travel companies in our Group, helping millions of customers to enjoy sport. https://destinationsport.com/

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our Manchest ed based finance team. reporting into the Head of Finance, this role will assist & develop working capital, cashflow, regulatory & MI Projects, processes and providing valuable insight to key stakeholders across the Destination Sport Group and wider Portman Travel Group’s business areas.

No two days are the same in this broad & exciting role, but on a typical day you will:

• Work closely with the Finance and Executive leadership teams to drive financial reporting in working capital, regulatory and MI areas of the business

• Take ownership and continual development of the cashflow forecasting and reporting processes, including driving automation and use of system development and integration with banking platforms

• Take ownership of the regulatory reporting for Destination Sport Group

• Develop MI and data initiatives to support finance reporting and commercial teams

• Take ownership of finance MI development

• Add insight to working capital considerations for M&A activity and ROI appraisals

• Become a key liaison between finance and the wider business, holding regular meetings with relevant stakeholders to help understand the business requirements and working capital movements

• Work on ad-hoc projects and improvements to the Sports finance processes

• Maximise personal skills, knowledge and experience to positively impact on performance

• Adhere to the organisations policy and procedures on information security and take whatever actions are required to safeguard data and assets.

To be successful in this role, our ideal candidate will:

• Be a fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

• Have previous experience in managing cashflow across multi-currency group of entities

• Have previous experience with travel industry regulatory requirement (preferred)

• Be confident presenting to senior stakeholders

• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail

• Be computer literate with strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, and in particular Excel

• have experience in manipulating and managing large quantities of data using Excel

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills both written & verbal

• Be proactive and able to build strong relationship with non-finance individuals

• Be able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

• Demonstrate good knowledge of back-office systems

• Have the ability to work within a team environment to achieve team/department objectives

• Be able to think logically, consider all relevant aspects and carry out complex analysis on information

So if you have a passion for sports, and are looking for your next challenge, take a look and get in touch we'd love to hear from you!