Your new company

Your new role

• Reporting and Analysis:
  • Lead the financial planning, analysis, and reporting by consolidating and interpreting reports detailing actual versus budget and forecasted results, including clear and concise variance explanations.
  • Prepare and present various management reports, supporting the budget cycle.
  • Provide historical trend analysis reviewing current performance and KPIs versus historical data.
  • Manage the generation, review, delivery, and release of monthly financial data to business stakeholders and other finance teams.
• Financial Modelling and Forecasting:
  • Develop and maintain complex financial models for projects, ABC costing and pricing ensuring accuracy and reliability.
  • Lead the automation and implementation of new systems, testing, and project management: EPM, Power BI, ect
  • Establish productivity measures, dashboards, and scorecard KPI reporting.
  • Set up systems and templates to provide detailed reports on actual versus budget and forecasted results.
• Business Partnering and Strategic Support:
  • Act as a key partner to the business, highlighting risks and opportunities in business proposals to assist management in evaluating the impact on business.
  • Challenge assumptions, propose revisions, and suggest alternative options to optimise business performance.
  • Work closely with Financial Reporting to identify opportunities to restructure the balance sheet and provide economic value to the business.
  • Recommend and track benchmarks for measuring financial and operating performance.
• Planning and Budgeting:
  • Manage and support planning and budgeting for Operations, Commercial, and Corporate divisions through financial modelling and the establishment of planning tools.
  • Ensure adherence to policies and procedures, detailing time horizons, forecast levels of detail, materiality levels, forecasting calendars, and review and sign-off procedures.
  • Accountability for the accuracy of forecasts, leveraging a sound understanding of business models and financial drivers to challenge and influence key cost drivers.
• Stakeholder Management:
  • Establish and maintain constructive relationships with internal stakeholders to deliver value-added services to the business.
  • Ensure the maintenance of budget and budgetary controls.

What you'll need to succeed

• Must have at least a master’s degree in business/Finance and a professional qualification such as FFA, CPA, CA, CIMA, MBA, or ACCA.
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience with at least 5 years in accounting, finance, budgeting, and/or forecasting (preferred 3 years airline experience).
• Rigorous and analytical thinking.
• Proficient in building and managing large MS Excel models, detailed PowerPoint presentations, and other planning system tools.
• Experience of using decision support tools and coaching others in their development and use.
• Strong experience in financial planning and control.
• Proven ability to make decisions and recommendations based on data and analysis while maintaining confidentiality.
• Proficiency in applying governance, risk, and compliance components.
• Advanced communication skills in English (both verbal and written).

What you need to do now

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