Marketing & Operations Exec

2 months ago


Penrith, United Kingdom Far and Wild Travel Full time

**About us**

Far & Wild Travel is a specialist travel company based in the Lake District with staff working throughout the UK. We organise tailor-made holidays to Africa, South America and the Indian Ocean.

**Travel Company Accounts, Operations & Marketing exec**

Would you like to work for one of the UK’s leading specialist travel companies? Do you want to work within a small team with an enlightened culture, a passion for travel and a commitment to be the best in the business? Then the new role at Far and Wild Travel could be the perfect opportunity for you

We are looking for a travel administrator guru

Far & Wild Travel is a specialist travel company based in the Lake District with staff working throughout the UK. We organise tailor-made holidays to Africa, South America and the Indian Ocean.

Working as part of the Operations team (which includes finance and marketing), this is a key role within our business - with important responsibilities for the smooth and efficient running of the complex holidays we organise. Your time will be split between performing accounting, bookkeeping and financial tasks, alongside a variety of operational tasks relating to the holiday bookings made by our business and marketing tasks involving uploading and proofreading content for our website, with the opportunity also to get involved in writing and other marketing elements.

**Responsibilities**
Ultimate responsibility for ensuring the company’s daily accounting functions and business systems run accurately and effectively. This entails:

- Updating financial records
- Preparation of monthly business reports
- Bank statements reconciliations
- Daily use of QuickBooks accounting software
- Using Excel to organise and manipulate data
- Processing customer payments
- Organising multi-currency supplier payments
- Travel document preparation including invoices and itineraries.
- Uploading content to our website
- Grammar checking and editing marketing content.

**Skills and experience**:

- Exceptional attention to detail (essential)
- Process-driven (essential)
- Advanced level computer literacy is vital - especially in the use of Microsoft Word and Excel (essential), any experience uploading content to websites is a bonus but it can easily be trained.
- Strong grammar and writing skills (desirable)
- High level of numeracy (desirable)
- Prior accounts clerk or administrator experience (desirable)
- QuickBooks experience or similar accounting platforms (desirable).
- Travel experience, particularly to Africa, would be useful though not a pre-requisite.

**Benefits**:
▪ Casual dress
▪ Company pension
▪ On site parking
▪ 20 days holiday (pro rata)
▪ Great team socials (we spent a week in Kenya last year) and amazing co-workers
▪ You may have to work up 6 Saturdays per year and may also be required to travel annually to Africa, the Indian Ocean or South America.

**Location**: The rolewill initially be based in our head office at Edenhall near Penrith in Cumbria (CA11 8ST) - where we look after the accounts and administration for all the holidays that we organise around the globe. Initially, the role is office based with opportunities to work remotely after a probation period is completed.

**Remuneration**
- Permanent role
- Salary from; £20,000 per year

Application deadline**:28 April 2023**
Interviews**:2 - 5th May 2023**
Expected start date**:1st June 2023**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £20,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Penrith: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Penrith

Application deadline: 28/04/2023


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