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Much Better Adventures

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

✈️ Travel

Travel • Adventure • Outdoor Recreation

Much Better Adventures is a travel company specializing in unique, expert-led outdoor adventures across the world. They offer a wide variety of activities such as hiking, mountain climbing, kayaking, wildlife watching, cycling, and more. Their trips are designed to cater to different fitness levels and preferences, ranging from easy to challenging adventures. Much Better Adventures emphasizes responsible travel, aiming to protect the world's wild places while offering better trips for local communities, wildlife, and the planet. The company is well-rated on Trustpilot, indicating their commitment to customer satisfaction and quality experiences.

📋 Description

• Initially supporting, and ultimately owning a 5 day month-end process end to end — this spans payroll journals and accruals, sales and commissions postings, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, OPEX accruals and prepayments, management accounts preparation, and preparing the finance slides and commentary used for the board deck • Preparing the departmental costs reporting file and variance analysis within 2 days of month end close • Supporting the Financial Controller with regulatory reporting requirements • Supporting the audit process: preparing working files, and responding to auditor queries and sample requests • Processing supplier payments and managing Xero and Airwallex payment flows • Processing customer refunds and employee expenses • Calculating local host payments — liaising with the Operations and Expansion teams and dealing with host queries • Assessing foreign currency requirements and booking forward contracts on a weekly basis to ensure sufficient currency is held to pay hosts • Cash management: monitoring balances and ensuring spare cash is held in interest-bearing accounts where appropriate • Preparing and filing VAT returns • Preparing payroll

🎯 Requirements

• Recently qualified OR part qualified accountant in active study (ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) • Solid grounding in management accounting and finance operations • Comfortable working independently in a remote environment — organised, self-motivated, excellent time management skills • A genuinely positive attitude and willingness to pitch in wherever needed • High attention to detail and a diligent, thorough approach to the numbers • A strong team player who communicates frequently via Slack and supports colleagues without daily in-person contact • Strong Google Sheets/Excel skills • Growth mindset and an active propensity to suggest and make improvements to existing processes, systems and files through automation/AI

🏖️ Benefits

• The warm fuzzy feeling that comes with knowing you are making a huge difference to small independent businesses, local economies, communities and conservation around the world. • 38 days holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) - to be used when you like. • Competitive compensation aligned with UK market benchmarks and your level of experience. • Flexible hours setup (40 hours p/w for full-time roles) and a fully remote company. • Company-wide, adventurous meet-ups. • Experience what we do: everyone goes on a free trip within their first year. • A £500 annual travel voucher to spend on a trip or trips. • 30% employee discount, plus 15% friends and family discount. • Up to 8% matched contribution pension scheme (UK employees only). • Fully comprehensive AXA private healthcare scheme (UK employees only). • Life Assurance (UK employees only). • Budget to set up a remote working space and access to co-working spaces. • Supportive maternity and paternity pay: 16 weeks full pay if you're the primary caregiver, 4 weeks full pay if you're the secondary caregiver.