Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.
What’s Travelport?
Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform. Our next-generation marketplace connects buyers and sellers that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences. Unconflicted and independent, we are reinventing a simpler future for travel’s complex ecosystem.
What does a great Finance Manager do?
The core purpose of the regional controller role is to be responsible for the accounting and reporting activities of certain Travelport operating companies, and to understand the accounting, business, and operations, including analysing and explaining P&L and balance sheet variances in detail.
This role is responsible to the boards of directors of those entities for the completeness, accuracy and on-time filing of the statutory financial statements, including the activities carried out by our main business process outsource partner (BPO) and our compliance outsource partners within individual countries.
Responsibilities:
* Directing, supporting and monitoring the activities of our main outsourced business partner and other local compliance and accounting partners, including contract management and review of local reporting.
* Management of month, quarter, and year-end close timetable, ensuring bottlenecks are resolved and escalating issues as appropriate, monitoring the delivery of activities by our outsourced accounting providers, and supporting identification and resolution of any accounting issues.
* Ensuring each legal entity’s results properly reflect its business model.
* Undertaking the accounting for more complex/unusual accounting transactions.
* Involvement in driving process improvements, improving consistency of practices across legal entities and regions, including improvements to our financial systems.
* Final review and approval of indirect tax returns prepared by outsourced partner.
* Reviewing legal entity reporting packs providing Balance Sheet and P&L analysis and supporting commentary.
* Overseeing the external audit process, financial statement filings and other compliance deliverables, ensuring auditors questions are being appropriately answered.
* Provide accurate financial accounting information and analysis to other interested parties including decision support, tax, controllership and senior management.
* Oversight and support to other finance teams (including accounts payable, accounts receivable).
What we look for/who would prosper in this role?
* Qualified or QBE accountant.
* Practical and proven accounting experience (4+ years) in a similar large, complex, multinational organization.
* Spanish and Portuguese language skills (written and verbal).
* High level of computer literacy including Excel spreadsheets (pivot tables, Vlookups etc), word processing (Microsoft), and experience with automated accounting systems.
* Exposure to working in Latin America (Mexico or Brasil) advantageous but not required.
* Sound commercial awareness.
* Able to work autonomously to deliver well-defined outputs.
* Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to work collaboratively with multiple organizations, across time-zones, both inside and outside of Travelport.
* Strong team-player, able to demonstrate flexibility, and resilience.
* Must be comfortable dealing with change, and have a desire to continually improve processes.
As we evolve and grow as a business, so will you.
You will thrive within an inclusive and diverse workplace where you are encouraged to think differently, and have the courage, confidence & ambition to challenge what’s been done before, and be bold to win!
These are just a few of our employee’s favourite benefits/perks…
We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and a workplace pension.
Interested? We’d love for you to get in touch!*
*Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.
We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Accounting/Auditing and Finance
Industries
Information Technology & Services and Technology, Information and Media
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