Finance Manager, Meetings & Events

About the Role

World Travel Service is seeking a Finance Manager, Meetings & Events to oversee general accounting activity and provide accounting guidance, reporting, and operational support to the Meetings & Events team. This role supports a high-growth, fast-paced operation that delivers a large volume of meetings each year. The Finance Manager will partner closely with headquarters accounting, finance leadership, and Meetings & Events stakeholders to strengthen financial controls, improve workflows, meet closing deadlines, and deliver accurate, timely reporting.

The successful candidate will demonstrate accountability, accuracy, sound financial judgment, analytical thinking, effective communication, integrity, adaptability, service excellence, collaboration, and a continuous-improvement mindset. This leader will be comfortable coaching others, delegating effectively, navigating change, addressing difficult situations tactfully, and driving measurable results.

As a Finance Manager, you will

• Partner with headquarters accounting and Meetings & Events leaders to establish and improve policies, procedures, and workflows for accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general-ledger journal entries.
• Monitor group account balances, issue client invoices, support timely collections, and help ensure each group maintains a positive balance.
• Confirm that invoices are received, paid, posted, and reconciled; respond to client-payment inquiries and provide vendors with payment information.
• Reconcile the Meetings & Events platform with the back-office financial system and maintain the integrity of its financial data.
• Create group codes, complete new-vendor forms, and provide direct-deposit or ACH instructions.
• Support monthly account reconciliations and partner with finance leadership to meet close deadlines.
• Prepare flash estimates, monthly financial submissions, and variance reporting for Meetings & Events revenue and departmental expenses.
• Compile and distribute meaningful monthly reports to management and executive teams.
• Ensure internal and external reporting requirements are met accurately and on time.
• Provide relevant Meetings & Events updates in finance meetings and meaningful finance updates in Meetings & Events team meetings.
• Work closely with headquarters accounting to resolve ongoing issues and design more effective processes.
• Develop best practices for Finance’s role in Meetings & Events operations.
• Build productive relationships with internal operations, sales, account-management, client, and supplier stakeholders.

About you

• At least four years of corporate finance experience.
• Working knowledge of accounting, budgets, and profit-and-loss statements.
• Strong analytical, organizational, customer-service, communication, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and the ability to learn financial and operational systems.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, adapt to change, and maintain strong attention to detail.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Bachelor’s degree.

About us

• WTS is a wholly owned subsidiary of BCD Travel, a market leader in travel management. We specialize in finding travel solutions for companies in the mid-market. We give travelers innovative tools that keep them safe and productive and help them make good choices on the road. WTS partners with travel and procurement leaders to simplify the complexities of business travel, drive savings and satisfaction, and move organizations toward their goals. In short, we help our clients travel smart and achieve more!

You’ll be offered

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home or remote opportunities. Work from the Knoxville, Tennessee office 1 day per week, with the remaining schedule worked remotely according to business needs.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance and meet monthly and other time-sensitive deadlines.
• Use a computer, telephone, and standard office equipment for extended periods.
• Communicate clearly in person, by phone, and through written channels.
• Work additional hours, including occasional evenings or weekends, when business needs require.
• Travel domestically or internationally by car, plane, or train when designated for the position.

At WTS we value you, our culture and success are defined by you. We carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors, including your professional background and experience. The salary range for candidates in applicable jurisdictions in the US for the position of National Account Manager is between $55,000 and $75,000. The actual pay depends on your skills, qualifications, and experience.

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