Financial Controls Analyst

Overview And What We Offer

• Mon - Friday 37.5hrs
• Location - Manchester Hybrid
• Refer a friend for £1000 bonus which is unlimited!
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Day off for your birthday
• Staff Awards
• Hotel and airline discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme
• OUR COMPANY CULTURE IS..... Bright, Energetic, Fast Paced and Rewarding, where we PROVIDE you with the opportunity for that brighter FUTURE!
• Clarity Travel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees
• At Clarity we not only listen, we adapt and we deliver
  
  

Who We Are And What We Do

We're a global, multi award winning Business Travel Company and we make business travel straightforward! By getting our customers where they need to be for work, safely, efficiently, and cost-effectively. We do this through a fusion of cutting-edge-technology and exceptional customer service. Our team comprises of over 800 industry experts, delivering the right service at exactly the right moment, we are the trusted provider of hassle-free travel management programmes for progressive businesses and organisations everywhere.

Clarity Business Travel company and a top 10 UK-based Travel Management Company which is part of The Portman Travel Group click here to view our LinkedIn Careers Page and includes Brighter Event, Elegant Resorts, If Only and Destination Sports Group

Role Overview

Reporting to: Controls & Governance Manager

This is a hands‑on analyst role focused on strengthening, improving and embedding financial controls across the organisation. Sitting within Finance, the role works across core end‑to‑end finance processes including Record to Report, Order to Cash, Purchase to Pay and Treasury.

You’ll partner with finance and non‑finance teams to identify control weaknesses, improve ways of working, document processes, and ensure controls operate effectively in practice - not just on paper.

This is not a transactional finance role and not a pure audit or SOX testing position. It is suited to someone with a strong finance operations background who wants to move into financial controls, governance and risk.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Controls & Governance

• Support the design, improvement and strengthening of financial controls across the group
• Document controls and processes using clear narratives, process maps and supporting documentation
• Identify control gaps, weaknesses or poor practice and challenge constructively
• Track control issues, agreed actions, remediation plans and closure evidence
  
  

Core Finance Process Controls

You will work across multiple end‑to‑end finance processes, including:

Order to Cash

• Controls over billing, fees and commission processing
• Cash allocation and customer reconciliations
  
  

Purchase to Pay

• Controls over supplier statements and payment runs
  
  

Treasury

• Controls over the banking process and payment runs
• Reconciliations and investigation of reconciling items
  
  

Record to Report

• Month‑end close controls
• Balance sheet reconciliations, including quality, timeliness and review
  
  

Audit, Risk & Compliance

• Take part in internal control reviews or assurance activity where required
• Maintain awareness of fraud risk and control failures
• Support external audit activity
  
  

Systems, Data & Reporting

• Work with finance systems to understand and improve manual versus system‑based controls
• Maintain a strong data quality mindset
  
  

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with finance and non‑finance teams to embed effective, proportionate controls
• Explain controls in plain English and help teams understand why they matter
• Handle challenge and pushback professionally while holding the line on control standards