Travelodge Hotels Limited
Head of Transactional Services
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Are you an experienced finance leader looking for a role where you can shape how transactional finance, finance systems and treasury work together? Do you enjoy balancing the bigger picture with the detail, while finding smarter ways of working and developing the people around you? If yes, our Head of Transactional Services position might be the right next move for you.
This is a 6 month Fixed Term Contract.
Your Purpose
As our Head of Transactional Finance, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering our Financial Control agenda, leading our transactional services team across accounts payable and transactional revenue, while overseeing our finance systems agenda and operational treasury requirements. Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, you’ll lead and develop three direct reports and work closely with teams across Finance and IT to make sure our systems, processes and controls deliver for the wider business.
This is a role where you can make a real impact. From driving automation and process improvements to shaping the roadmap for our finance systems, strengthening controls and ensuring we manage cash and working capital effectively, you’ll have the opportunity to influence how we operate today while helping us build for the future. You’ll bring broad experience across transactional finance and finance systems, with the confidence to engage with senior stakeholders, think strategically and get into the detail when it matters.
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Your Strengths
You’ll have at least five years’ experience leading transactional finance or shared services teams within a large organisation, with a strong understanding of transactional services and finance systems. You’ll be an excellent communicator and influencer, with strong attention to detail and the ability to build effective relationships across teams.
You’ll also bring experience of delivering system and process change, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and increase value. A collaborative, analytical approach is essential, with the ability to solve problems, manage priorities and deliver high-quality results to deadline. You’ll be comfortable thinking strategically while also getting into the detail when needed.
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Your Perks
- Salary £65,000 - £72,000
- Contributory pension scheme - auto enroll at _% after 3 months and we contribute _%
- Hybrid working - a minimum of 60% of your time should be spent in the office
- 50% personal discount for hotel bookings and great friends and family discounts too!
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays, increasing with length of service
Why Travelodge?
At Travelodge, we’re more than just a Hotel brand; we’re a community where you can truly be yourself and belong. Through our “Better Me” initiative, we prioritise your total wellbeing—emotional, physical, financial, and professional—while actively celebrating the diversity that makes our teams stronger. If you’re a results-driven individual who pays attention to the little things and genuinely cares about people, you’ll fit right in.
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