Accounts Assistant

We are currently looking for an Accounts Assistant to join our growing team. If you are passionate about this opportunity and know the value you can bring to this role and our organization, we would love to hear from you

Operating sports travel and hospitality, both domestically and across the globe, we’re passionate about delivering bucket list experiences that create lifelong memories for sports fans.

The Travelopia Sports Travel & Events Division is part of the Travelopia Group, a KKR owned company. The division is based in modern offices in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire and contains Gullivers Sports Travel - a 50-year-old brand focussed on delivering sports travel experiences to major sporting events worldwide, Howzat Travel the UK’s No.1 cricket tour operator and Events International - another long-established business which is a market leader in hospitality at sporting events.

Reporting to the Events Division’s Finance Manager, you would be responsible for the accurate and efficient processing of accounts payable and customer receipts, along with performing regular bank reconciliations. This role’s primary responsibility is Gullivers Sports Travel with a secondary focus on supporting another member of staff with Events International. Ultimately, you would help our team run efficiently, assist with both accounts receivable and accounts payable functions, ensuring transparency and efficiency in all transactions.

**What you will be doing**:

- Daily reconciliation of bank statements, recording any new payments and/or receipts
- Working with the team to reconcile bank transactions to the accounting system and reservation system
- Processing customer receipts and refunds and allocating them in the reservation system as appropriate
- Reconciling customer accounts and resolving queries
- Processing all purchase invoices, direct debit payments and expenses
- Creating and submitting payment runs for authorisation
- Process monthly credit card statements
- Importing sales and purchase invoices into Sage
- Assisting in month end procedures where required
- Assisting in year-end audit

What we are looking for:

- AAT Level 2/3 preferred or studying towards an accountancy qualification.
- Experience within the travel and/or sports industry is desirable
- Experience of multicurrency transactions is desirable
- Proficient in MS Office apps, with particular focus in Excel
- Familiarity with Sage, Sun and/or automated accounting software packages is desirable
- Enthusiastic, ambitious and keen to develop
- Highly organised, flexible and thorough in approach
- Highest level of integrity, intellectual honesty, and strong work ethic
- Excellent attention to detail, with strong analytical skills
- Happy to travel on occasional sporting tours

**Join us and in return you will be rewarded with**:

- Competitive salary
- Various employee discounts and offers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Travel on occasional sports tours

**Our commitment to equity, diversity & inclusion**:
We believe people are happier and perform best when they are able to be their true self, and that diverse teams deliver better results. Together we will cultivate a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment, where everyone can flourish.

We are committed to inspiring change through increasing awareness of, and counteracting, unconscious bias; building an inclusive culture, and embracing diversity in all its dimensions.