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Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world’s rail, coach and other travel services into 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 collaborativelyto 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.
The TeamThe Finance team has been central to supporting the business through thiscontinued growth. Headed up by Shaun McCabe (a proven Finance leader in Digital amp; Technology), the team is laser focused onthinking insight not simply numbers,adding value across the business and acting as atrue commercial partnerat every step.The role will includeReporting into the Finance Reporting and Controls team leader, you’ll be using Tableau to provide a highly accurate and consistent suite of financial reports to automate processes, deliver day to day financial and control reports, and answer common questions. In addition, your SQL skills will be needed to deep dive into our data rich business to respond to all sorts of ad hoc queries.Our ever-expanding business changes by the day, and we add new revenue streams and suppliers all the time, so you will be seeking opportunities to automate processes whenever possible and develop flexible reports that can be easily maintained.On one typical day, you may be supporting the team through the month end close, helping troubleshoot problems and identifying areas for future improvement of processes. The next, you may be working with product and data teams to support project delivery. Working in a rapidly evolving business like ours, there isalways a new challenge and opportunities to develop your skill setand turn your hand to new things.Key responsibilities include- Work closely with the finance teamsto deliver consistent and reconciled data for the finance team, automate processes (with appropriate checks in place) and build trust and confidence in data- Support the analytical needs of finance by developing compelling and interactive visualisations and dashboards using Tableau, whilst also building out our Tableau suite of reporting to minimise rework where possible- Work closely with product and data teams to understand system developments, make impact assessments, and deliver quality requirements. - Support the expansion of self-serve capability within FinanceThis is atruly career defining role for someone passionate about changing the way we think about data looking for an opportunity to join a highly rated team. We’ll provide you withample opportunity to make transformational changes to the way we work, as you play your part in disrupting and defining a product that willchange the way people travelandimpacting millions of people every day.The right candidate will have - Creativity, but with a small egoto help achieve our ambitious plans- Expertise in Tableau visualisation and dashboard design- Experience of working with multiple data sources including Oracle and AWS Athena - Strong SQL skills- A proven track record indeveloping processes and enhancing existing processes- Ability to work in afast-paced environmentwith the ability to quickly re-prioritise -Naturally inquisitive and analytical mindset, able to quickly grasp the fundamentals of complex systems and processes, explaining and presenting them to others is an easy to understand way-Comfortable working in a high transactional volume, multi-currency and multinational environmentWhat we offer:- 25 days holiday +2 extra days at Christmas- Free private medical and dental insurance for you and your family (you just pay the tax on what you choose!)- Life assurance amp; income protection- Good pension scheme- Season Ticket loan- Charity leave- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave- Free breakfast everyday and fruit galore!..and many
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