Accounts Payable Clerk - 6 Month FTC

About us

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. 

Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 

Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. 

Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. 

Introducing Finance at Trainline👋

We’re looking for an Accounts Payable Clerk to join our Financial Control team. You’ll be part of a team of four, reporting to the Accounts Payable Manager, and play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of our Accounts Payable function across eight ledgers covering our UK and international businesses.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, is detail-oriented, and is keen to contribute to continuous improvement within finance processes.

In this role as a Accounts Payable Clerk at Trainline, you will...🚅

• Processing supplier invoices accurately and efficiently, ensuring correct matching to purchase orders and receipts

• Managing supplier setups and maintaining accurate supplier data

• Processing employee expense claims in line with our Travel & Expenses policy

• Administering company credit card expenditure

• Running weekly multi-currency payment runs for suppliers and employees

• Managing queries via the Accounts Payable inbox, working closely with internal teams and external suppliers

• Performing supplier statement reconciliations

• Investigating and resolving aged creditor balances

• Supporting the Treasury team with payment-related queries and maintaining the AP cashbook

• Assisting with month-end close activities

• Supporting non-finance colleagues with purchasing processes and purchase orders

• Maintaining the purchase ledger to a high standard

• Identifying and contributing to process improvements within the team

• Supporting with ad hoc finance tasks as needed

We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍

• Experience in an Accounts Payable role

• Experience working with international AP ledgers

• Understanding of UK and international VAT

• Experience with supplier reconciliations and clearing aged balances

• Familiarity with ERP or finance systems

• Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy

• Solid understanding of basic accounting principles

• Confident using Microsoft Excel

• A proactive problem-solver who can investigate and resolve discrepancies

• Clear and effective communicator, both written and verbal

• Well-organised, with strong time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines

• A collaborative team player

• A continuous improvement mindset and willingness to learn

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. 

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! 

We're operate a hybrid model to work and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: 

• 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail 

• ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey 

• 🤝  Travel Together - We're one team 

• ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact 

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!