Group HFM Accountant

HFM Accountant

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Division: Corporate

Sector or Brand: Group

Function: Finance

Contract type: Permanent

Company overview

Travelopia is headquartered in the UK and is one of the world’s leading specialist travel groups providing customers with unique travel experiences. This includes adventure travel, safaris, private jet and polar expeditions, tailor-made luxury holidays, yacht, and river boat charter holidays, educational and sporting based school trips, corporate hospitality and sporting event fan travel.

The role

Our HFM Accountant will have unique oversight of, and will provide assistance to, all eleven of Travelopia’s tour operating divisions. You will be a key and highly valued member of the Group Finance team, responsible for the maintenance, support and running of the Group’s consolidation system, HFM, supporting users in all their financial reporting requirements, reviewing their results and solving loading issues. You will also be assisting in some of the Group Finance team’s accounting and financial reporting requirements.

Operating across the globe including Europe, Australia, North America and Canada, Travelopia is passionate about being the best and we pride ourselves on the unique and diverse range of holiday experiences we offer our customers. Our combined businesses are the world’s largest provider of specialist and experiential travel with a range of unique experiences, from private jets, polar expeditions, sailing, ski holidays and more. Join us and in return you'll be rewarded with:

What you’ll be doing:

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  Opening and closing periods in HFM and FDMEE on a monthly basis and annually rolling all data into the new financial year, this will include loading dormant company data, FX rates, running copy data scripts and setting up automated consolidations



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  Maintaining SmartView templates and HFM reports



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  Liaising with external auditors for system audits as part of the Group audit



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  Running security reviews and user maintenance to ensure new users are set up and leavers deleted in a timely fashion



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  Proposing, testing and implementing system improvements with the assistance of our HFM consultants

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  Creating new scenarios for the annual budgeting process and populating additional comparative scenarios



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  Assist with the loading of submissions from SAP companies and maintenance of the SAP mapping table to ensure companies data is reported correctly



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  Supporting users to ensure they meet reporting deadlines for actuals, forecast and budget, providing any accounting assistance as required



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  Assist with reviewing submissions for actuals, forecast and budget to ensure data complies with system validations and relevant accounting policies, raising queries and resolving on a timely basis, this will include reviewing and posting required journals or loading adjustments.



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  Raise payments in banking systems for Group Holding companies ready for approval

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  Assist with Cash Analytics reporting on a weekly basis, being the reporting of actual cash transactions. Consideration of forecast cash flows and accurate reporting in CA.



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  Provide cover for Group Finance & HFM Manager for accounting and HFM systems roles

What we are looking for:

Technical skills:

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  Oracle HFM super user experience including SmartView and FDMEE



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  Strong excel skills

Personal qualities

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  Experience of working in international, multi-currency group finance team

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  Ability to multitask and work to tight deadlines



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  Ability to engage with a geographically and culturally diverse set of stakeholders



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  Have excellent written and oral communication skills (in English is essential)



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  Self-motivated and able to work alone



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  Experience with rules and metadata changes in HFM desirable

Minimum education

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  ACCA or similar qualified, Minimum of 2 years post qualified experience

Working with us:

Operating across the globe including Europe, Australia, North America and Southeast Asia, we’re passionate about being the best and pride ourselves on the unique and diverse range of holiday experiences we offer our customers.

Join us and in return you'll be rewarded with:

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  Competitive salary



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  Bonus scheme



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  Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model

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  Wider scope for learning, working with teams across the globe




• Career progression opportunities