Graduate Accountant

☞ Trainline

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Edinburgh Scotland

Category: Accounting / Auditing

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Job type: Full-time

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Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world’s rail, coach and other travel servicesinto one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We’re hugely proud to be the world’s leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That’s more than £3.7 billion in ticket sales annually, and over 90 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is now part of the FTSE 250.
Our culture is central to our success. We’re driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we’re always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It’s this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.

Purpose of the Role

This is a fast paced role with changing demands and plenty of opportunity to get involved in one off projects and new challenges. You will be involved in a wide array of tasks and duties in order to give you the foundation required alongside the study support for a professional qualification needed to build a strong finance career.

Key Responsibilities

  • Posting of month end journals
  • Completion of balance sheet reconciliations
  • Month end variance analysis vs prior year and vs budget
  • Supporting the Financial Accountant when preparing month end and ad hoc reporting
  • Supporting business partners and attending meetings with wider business where required
  • Involved in budgeting process, assisting the Financial Accountant where required
  • Assisting with the audit process, providing support and liaising with auditors where required
  • Adhoc project work as and when the business need arises

About You

  • A 2:1 degree graduate or hold equivalent commercial experience ideally within an accounting or finance related subject
  • Passionate and committed
  • Keen to work in a growing, fast paced company
  • Proficient in Microsoft office, particularly Excel – including advanced formulas and functionality
  • Able to understand basic accounting principles (debits / credits / accruals / prepayments etc)
  • Keen to gain an accounting qualification
  • Confident in both written and verbal communication. Able to build relationships and utilise them both within the wider Finance team and across the business
  • Analytically minded, able to look into the detail but also think about the bigger picture
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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