Big Bus Tours is the world’s largest operator of open-top sightseeing tours, fuelling the spirit of adventure in 22 world-famous cities across four continents. Beginning its journey 27 years’ ago, with a fleet of only three buses, Big Bus Tours has swiftly expanded to a global fleet of over 400 hundred open-top buses, turning 5 million tourists into explorers, every year. Big Bus Tours operates in London, Dubai, Hong Kong, New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Abu Dhabi, Budapest, Istanbul, Miami, Muscat, Rome, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Darwin, Sydney, Vienna, Washington DC, Dublin, Singapore and Los Angeles with a sightseeing concept designed to provide a flexible approach to city discovery. Each open-top bus tour provides a hop-on, hop-off facility at a variety of interesting locations, with complimentary additions to enhance the visitor sightseeing experience. In February 2015, private equity firm Exponent purchased Big Bus Tours, with a shared vision to make Big Bus Tours the number 1 thing to do in each world-famous city. In 2016, Merlin Entertainments PLC became a shareholder, offering a natural synergy with Big Bus Tours and Merlin attractions and experiences around the world. With entertaining guides and commentary and knowledge of the latest events in each city, the Big Bus City Crew leaves every passenger with a story to tell.

Overall Purpose

Taxi Tours, Inc. (d/b/a Big Bus Tours New York) seeks a Head of Finance to manager a centralized US finance team of 15 people. Manages cashflows, leads budget preparation, produces timely monthly financial reporting and analysis, provides technical accounting advice to the business, identifies accounting risks to be mitigated and opportunities to be pursued. Prepares the business for UK statutory audits, implements recommendations from auditors after each audit, and builds process consistency across finance teams including strong internal controls and fraud risk management procedures. Standardizes accounting procedures across offices and oversees finance centralization projects in the U.S. Provides financial analysis to stakeholders across the business including local managers in each US city, group finance (based in London) and Board members from UK private equity owner. Travels to visit US teams and build financial strategies and improve internal controls.

Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any field.
• Must be CPA, Chartered Accountant, or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate accounting and finance experience
• 5 years of experience utilizing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to produce financial statements in SAP
• 5 years of experience performing global audits with a “Big Four” accounting firm
• 5 years of experience reporting to international private equity firms
• 5 years of experience overseeing financial aspects of mergers and acquisitions
• 3 years of experience advising stakeholders on implementing rules related to GDPR.
• Employer will accept experience gained concurrently.

Working Hours and Conditions

Job Type: Full-time

The role involves domestic travel up to 30% of the time and international travel up to 10% of the time.