Group Financial Accountant

About us

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. 

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.9 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. 

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. 

Introducing the Group Financial Accountant role at Trainline...👋

As a fast-moving listed business, we are looking for a qualified chartered accountant to join our Group Finance team located in central London (hybrid working).

As a member of the Group Finance team, you’ll already be an expert in IFRS and will play a key part in the interim and year-end financial reporting process. You’ll be preparing the Group consolidation and financial statement disclosures in the Trainline Group Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) and interacting with external auditors.

You’ll also be responsible for preparing monthly Board reporting and will input to the monthly management accounts, using your broader business knowledge to provide insightful commentary, performance analysis and explaining significant variances to budget at a level of detail and tone appropriate for the Board.

It will be more varied than a typical Group Reporting role and we want somebody who thrives in a varied and fast-paced environment. Someone who always puts their hand up for one off projects and loves learning new things! Our ever-expanding business changes by the day. With this comes a wealth of ad-hoc projects, accounting implications and process improvements we’ll seek your involvement in. As such, we’re looking for someone with initiative who can recognise and act on these opportunities for change, keen to get involved with new projects to help the business and broaden their own knowledge.

What you'll do as a Group Financial Accountant at Trainline...🚄

• Preparation of the Trainline Group Annual Report and Accounts (ARA), including working closely with other Finance colleagues and the Company Secretariat to produce high-quality, best-practice financial reporting

• Preparation of the group consolidation, including accounting for new reporting units, and deconsolidating legacy entities as we wind-down and rationalise our group structure

• Preparation of monthly Board reporting over the group’s balance sheet and cash flow statement, including ownership of underlying workings and assessing business performance against banking covenants and liquidity

• Accounting for the group’s share-based payments, including obtaining and assimilating relevant data sets to update accounting assumptions

• Support in the preparation of the group’s annual impairment tests as well as going concern assessments

• Oversight of the group’s intercompany transactions, including working closely with the Tax team

• Preparation of UK statutory accounts under FRS 101 and FRS 102, including mentoring and overseeing junior finance team members

• Maintaining a good working relationship with the external auditors to ensure audits are conducted efficiently and effectively

• Support the business in its listed environment, including researching competitor results, reporting requirements and other literature to ensure the Group has a well-balanced and informed approach to compiling its public information and presenting it in an understandable and compliant way

• Providing technical advice to other teams as necessary

• Ad-hoc project work when required

We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍

• An ACA/ICAS/ACCA (or equivalent) accounting qualfication with between 0-2 years’ PQE either straight from practice or with industry experience

• As Trainline is a FTSE 250 listed business, detailed knowledge of IFRS and PLC reporting requirements are a must

• You will have demonstrable experience preparing or reviewing (e.g. through audit) publicly listed Annual Reports and Accounts (ARA)

• A sound technical accounting background with extensive IFRS knowledge and experience of complex, multi-currency group consolidations

• Proven experience in coaching and mentoring junior team members

• Excellent time management and ownership with proven ability to manage own workload and meet deadlines

• You are comfortable working autonomously and you’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves and take responsibility to do whatever needs doing to solve problems

• You are an experienced user of MS products, particularly Excel

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. 

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! 

We're operate a hybrid model to work and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: 

• 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail 

• ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey 

• 🤝  Travel Together - We're one team 

• ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact 

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

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