Senior Finance Manager

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. 

We’re looking for a commercially minded and proactive Senior Finance Manager to lead our financial control and reporting activities.

In this role, you’ll take ownership of the monthly accounting cycle, cost control and forecasting, while also stepping back to assess the broader commercial impact of business decisions.

You’ll lead a team of six and act as a key partner to senior leadership, combining strong technical expertise with strategic thinking. This is a high-impact role where your ability to drive improvements, influence stakeholders and lead a high-performing team will be critical.

• Leading and developing a team of six, driving performance and fostering a high-performing, supportive culture

• Owning the end-to-end monthly accounting and reporting cycle, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and insightful outputs

• Delivering clear financial reporting and commentary to senior stakeholders, including the CFO

• Acting as a trusted finance business partner, supporting strategic and commercial decision-making

• Supporting budgeting, long-range planning and reforecasting in collaboration with FP&A

• Leading financial control activities, strengthening processes and ensuring compliance with accounting standards

• Working closely with Group Reporting on statutory accounts, including external audit coordination

• Partnering with data teams to improve automation, analytics and decision support

• Identifying trends, risks and opportunities, and assessing the financial impact of business changes

• Driving continuous improvement through process optimisation and automation initiatives

• Contributing to ad hoc projects across finance and the wider business
  

• Qualified accountant with 4+ years’ post-qualification experience

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams

• Strong background in financial management, reporting and controls

• Ability to balance technical expertise with commercial awareness

• Excellent communication skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders

• Experience improving and automating processes in a fast-paced environment

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities

• Analytical and inquisitive mindset, with the ability to simplify complexity

• Experience working in high-volume, multi-currency, multinational environments

Nice to have:

• E-commerce or data-rich environment experience

• Experience working across multi-site or multi-country teams

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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.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!