Job Description:

Job information Senior Finance manager - Planning and Strategy from the Company British Airways, this latest Senior Finance manager - Planning and Strategy job vacancy is located in the city Heathrow located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Senior field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Looking for a challenge in one of the world's largest airfreight logistics organisations?

At IAG Cargo, we're in the business of moving things. From antibiotics and rhinoceroses to gold bullion, avocados, and everything in between, whatever people need, wherever they are, IAG Cargo is there to bring them the necessary and niche.

As the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group, you'll work across the globally recognised brands of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling.

As well as helping to keep the world's economies turning, we believe in building a great place for our colleagues to work. Our people are determined, curious, collaborative and take huge pride in everything they do.

The role:

As the Senior Finance Manager - Planning and Strategy, you will lead financial planning and analysis efforts, including business plan development and coordination with various stakeholders. Your role encompasses overseeing Cargo investments and tracking project financials, while providing strategic insights and supporting board presentations. Promoting continuous improvement through process enhancements and building strong cross-functional relationships are key aspects. Additionally, you will lead the finance team, mentor junior staff, and play a pivotal role in advancing financial strategies and fostering efficient operations.

What you'll do:

• Effective financial planning and analysis - lead the business plan process to an established timetable, incorporating various stages of management review, working closely with the head of finance, CFO and CET. This includes the coordination of the processes with IAG Head office, Operating Companies and cargo teams to meet IAG requirement and the articulation of the story to a number of different stakeholders
• Responsible for managing the Cargo investment process including the capex reporting and planning.
• Lead the financial support in maintaining a tracking framework to ensure strategic projects achieve their financial objectives. Analysing and interpreting the financial position of Strategic Projects, advising the CET on areas that required focus.
• Manage the tracking of the benefits and cost of initiatives including the Transformation programme.
• Provide business insight and robust challenge into the program portfolio key business decisions through regular reporting and ad-hoc analysis.
• Support the preparation of Board paper, presentation to Management Committee and other reports.
• Direct and produce market, strategy, and initiative insight. Develop scenario planning capabilities for enhance the planning and forecasting process and in the event of key legal, economic, or political changes.
• Oversight of competitors benchmarking
• Provide support in ad hoc project including expertise in complex data analysis consultancy to support key project priorities and ensure robust decision making
• Promote and support change. Deliver continuous process improvements via automation and standardization, to advance IAG Cargo's efficiency and customer service proposition.
• Work closely with the wider finance team to be continuously monitoring internal processes and provide support to FP&A deliverables when required.
• Adhere to all corporate, statutory, and regulatory requirements including Group Standing Instructions, Group Financial Standing Instructions, Financial Reporting Standards, and International Accounting Standards
• Actively build and maintain strong relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues at all levels across IAG Cargo, British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Level, GBS.
• Lead the direct team and wider business planning, reporting and strategy team when required.
• Training, coaching, and supervising junior staff.

What you'll bring to IAG Cargo:

• Analytical and problem-solving skills including ability to manipulate, analyse and interpret financial and business data in an efficient manner.
• Ability to think and plan strategically with an analytical approach to problems
• Able to deliver and drive improvements.
• Flexible in approach, responding positively to change. Able to deal with ambiguity
• Strong planning skills: both at a high level and able to get into the detail to make things happen.
• Takes responsibility for managing and prioritising deliverables with the resilience to work under pressure and deliver results to deadlines.
• Organised with excellent attention to detail, determined with the ability to follow through.
• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems that impact delivery.
• Proactive, taking the initiative to explore issues and to generate new ideas and approaches.
• Excellent financial communication skills tailored for senior executives (written, PowerPoint and presentational)
• Ability to influence, collaborate and build relationships across global cultures.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/ACMA) or equivalent level of experience.

Your experience:

Essential Experience

• Accounting background, including reporting and financial analysis.
• Good understanding of finance theory and good level of practical finance experience in technical group accounting.
• Solid FP&A experience including analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and management reporting
• Experience in strategic planning and execution
• Experience working within a large group and liaising with a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience in reporting for executive teams.
• Good IT skills and experience of finance systems preferably including SAP, Excel, Hyperion, Anaplan or equivalent, HFM, Tableau, Power Bi, Business Objects.
• Commercial aptitude to understand external global threats and how these can impact a business or industry such as this.

Desirable experience

• To be conversational in another language e.g. Spanish
• Familiarity with the aviation or logistic sectors

What we offer:

Wherever you work within IAG Cargo, you'll play a part in connecting people and countries and join a diverse and inclusive business that's making a difference to the future of aviation.

Colleagues working for IAG Cargo:

• Benefit from attractive and competitive rewards aligned to the local market and role.
• From the day you join us, you'll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways and group airlines. You'll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline' airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.
• Work with diverse colleagues in a business that truly values inclusion and diversity.
• Are valued for their ideas and opinions.
• Benefit from opportunities for development and progression.
• Are able to support communities across the world, and close to home.
• Work in an environment in which safety and wellbeing are paramount.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Our recruitment procedures positively support our equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda.

All candidates are considered strictly on their merits in relation to the criteria for the role, treated fairly and consistently and have their individual needs responded to throughout the process.

Please advise us if you require any reasonable adjustments to take part in the recruitment process so we're able to remove any barriers that may present themselves.

To apply for the position of Senior Finance manager - Planning and Strategy, please use the ‘apply now' function.

Keywords : Heathrow jobs

Closed Date : 2024-12-04