Finance Assistant

OVERVIEW

Are you passionate about finance and looking to build your career in a fast-paced, global business?

At Ten our goal is simple, to become the most trusted service business in the world.

We are already the global market leader for lifestyle management and concierge services, providing services from a strong global office network with over one thousand employees.

We deliver our service through a combination of Ten’s proprietary, unique technology‑enabled platform and the expertise of our highly trained lifestyle managers. Ten is growing quickly and has ambitious plans to innovate and to keep inspiring and to continue to improve the lives of millions of members. Will you help take us there?

As a Finance Assistant, you will own the day‑to‑day and month‑end accounting for a group of international entities within our travel business, with primary accountability for the integrity of the balance sheet. You will carry a multi‑entity, multi‑currency reconciliation workload and will be expected to explain, evidence and clear every balance you own.

Your role involves working closely with the wider global finance team, the travel operation, and third‑party banking, payment and supplier partners. Your work is reviewed by a senior accountant, with escalation to the Member Team Manager and technical sign‑off from the Group Financial Controller.

The priority for this role is a fully substantiated, supportable balance sheet delivered to a fixed close calendar, with every material balance explained and every difference evidenced.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Balance Sheet Ownership:

• Prepare and review the monthly balance sheet for the entities in scope, commenting on every material balance and substantiating it to supporting schedules.
• Substantiate balances to third‑party evidence, including bank statements, merchant settlement reports and supplier statements, and evidence any difference.
• Raise and post correcting journals independently, and explain the double entry behind them.
• Close out review points raised by the reviewer and write review commentary a reviewer can rely on.
• Investigate and challenge unexplained balances rather than carrying them forward.

Reconciliations and Control Accounts:

• Weekly reconciliation of bank accounts and merchant settlements, and periodic reconciliation of corporate card accounts.
• Prepare cash‑in‑transit documentation at close and post the resulting adjustments.
• Investigate and clear month‑end and cash‑flow clearing queries so that no unexplained item ages beyond the current period.
• Weekly matching of customer and supplier ledger entries so that revenue and cost of sales are released to the profit and loss account in the correct period.
• Monthly posting and agreement of intercompany balances across entities, ensuring both sides net to nil before close.
• Maintain reconciliations for control accounts: clearing, cash in transit, intercompany, prepayments, deferred and accrued income.

Reporting, Queries and Close:

• Complete industry and regulatory submissions and the related reconciliations to the required deadlines.
• Recognise breakage monthly across the entity group.
• Take daily ownership of the finance mailboxes: resolve internal and supplier queries, action payments and refunds, and escalates anything that affects a balance sheet position.
• Deliver all owned tasks to the close calendar, hand clean schedules to review, and communicate any delay in advance.
• Provide cover for colleagues on shared entities during absence, and support audit requests and ad‑hoc work for…