Are you comfortable handling large data sets, utilising your strong Excel skills and have meticulous attention to detail?
Do you have proven experience in a financial role and thrive when working in a fast-paced environment?
If so, the Finance Assistant role here at Harding+ could be your perfect next challenge!
About the role:
As a Finance Assistant, you'll play a key role in our end of cruise reconciliation and profit share reporting to our cruise line partners, including setting up reconciliations and checking/verifying data. You'll also provide additional support to the wider FP&A team as required with reconciliation of internal systems and external reports.
Based in our Bristol office on a hybrid basis, you'll work from the Avonmouth office 2 days a week. This role is available as a part time opportunity (4 days/week) with potential also for flexible hours.
Compensation – competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, 4 x life assurance, health cash plan, 25 days leave annually (including Christmas shutdown).
What you'll be doing:
The Finance Assistant role has two core areas of responsibility:
End of Cruise Reconciliations
- Shared responsibility of a busy outlook inbox
- Data matching between internal systems and external reports
- Posting sales/purchases journals for expenses and other costs
- Identifying discrepancies in sales and commission data
- Variance analysis and problem solving for causes of differences
- Communicating clearly with other departments where action is needed from them
Profit Share Reporting
- Assisting with the preparation of quarterly profit share reconciliations for cruise lines operating under profit share agreements
- Populating Excel templates with updated cruise data from various sources
- Identifying discrepancies in the data and correcting as required
- Resolving cruise line queries in a timely manner
- Assisting with external audit of costs by cruise line partners including collation of samples and additional data as required
About you:
- Experience in similar/relevant financial role
- Moderate to advanced Excel skills; comfortable with handling large data sets
- Excellent attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
- Ability to confidently communicate with internal and external partners
- Able to identify how we can be doing things better or adding more value
- Efficient and comfortable working through high volume repetitive tasks
- Must have an existing right of eligibility to work in the UK
Key Attributes – trust, collaboration, respect, passion, drive, resilience
About us:
Harding+ is leading the way in innovative onboard cruise retailing, working closely with our cruise line partners and brand partners to ‘make every cruise better'.? We stay at the forefront of retailing and consistently provide outstanding customer service, culminating in winning the Cruise Retailer of the Year award for 2022 and 2023.
Harding+ is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Harding+.