About
At Holiday Extras, we’re creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, build their careers and reach their limitless potential.
As a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025, we’re proud to offer a world of benefits designed to enhance your lifestyle and well-being.
By joining our team, you’ll feel supported and rewarded every day.
The Role
By joining our team you’ll:
Lead the preparation of monthly management accounts including journals, accruals and prepayments.
Own the reconciliation of key balance sheet accounts, investigating and resolving discrepancies proactively.
Analyse P&L variances and provide clear, insightful commentary for both finance and non-finance audiences.
Manage your workload effectively throughout the month-end cycle and contribute to a smooth and timely close.
Maintain accurate working papers and supporting documentation for audit and reporting purposes.
Contribute to statutory reporting and audit preparation.
Continue developing your broader commercial awareness, financial expertise and confidence when communicating with stakeholders.
Share your knowledge and experience with colleagues across Group Finance.
Use financial systems, Google Sheets, Excel and AI tools where appropriate to improve the quality and efficiency of your work, applying sound judgement throughout.
Support across UK & Europe, enhancing your understanding of foreign currency transactions.
What you can bring to our team:
- Proven experience in management accounting, including ownership of journals, accruals, prepayments and reconciliations.
- Strong knowledge of P&L and balance sheet accounting.
- Proven experience managing a full month-end close cycle for defined areas, delivering accurate outputs to agreed deadlines.
- The ability to analyse P&L variances, identify the underlying drivers and provide clear, insightful commentary.
- Experience taking ownership of accounting discrepancies through to resolution.
- Confidence using financial systems and Google Sheets or Excel. Previous NetSuite experience would be useful but isn’t essential.
- Partial or full professional accounting qualification such as CIMA or ACCA.
- The ability to communicate financial information clearly and confidently with finance, commercial and operational stakeholders.
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to connect accounting information with business activity and performance.
- A proactive approach to improving the quality, control and efficiency of month-end processes.
- The ability to manage competing priorities, maintain high standards and take accountability for delivering your area of the accounts.
- A commitment to continuous professional development and keeping your technical knowledge current.
- Ideally, you have relevant industry experience to hit the ground running in fixed term the role, travel industry would be beneficial but not essential.
How we hire for this role
We know your time is precious, so we keep our recruitment process as quick and easy as possible.
If we believe you might be a match for a job you’ve applied for, you’ll enter our hiring process as follows:
Video call with hiring manager and recruitment team
Practical accounts task
Face to face interview with the team
Cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture is paramount for us. Recognising we are all different, if for whatever reason you need us to adapt the process, please get in touch via recruitment@holidayextras.com.
Why choose Holiday Extras?
We believe that holidays are the most precious time of all, so we create products, tech and services that make travel and holidays memorable and fun.
We’re on a mission to be the only place to go for your holiday extras, offering unparalleled choice, value and service, turning our customers’ ordinary trips into extraordinarily good times.
Our roles are fully office based
Our roles are fully office based at our campus in Newingreen, in the heart of the Kent countryside - just minutes from Folkestone and the M20, where in person connection and collaboration is at the heart of how we work.
You'll find free parking, an on-site café, and a state of the art campus that makes the commute worth it.
Time is precious:
25 days annual leave (+BH’s), extra holidays through Holiday Buy, Birthday Day Off, and Sabbaticals at each milestone.
Parental Leave:
Enhanced parental leave - Up to 1 year off, including 13 weeks at 100% pay, 13 weeks at 50% pay.
Road to well-being:
Access to Gym Discounts, Private Dental Insurance and Private Medical Insurance (after 4 years).
Celebrate success together:: Enjoy a Profit Share Bonus and a pension scheme with Aviva.
Good for the soul:
Join our Social Club for 25% off any ticket or event in the UK, Discounts on the latest tech, or give back to your community with our Volunteering Scheme.
Plan ahead:: Income protection, Critical illness cover and Life assurance.