Senior Finance Analyst – FP&A
IAG Cargo
Date: 5 days ago
City: Hounslow, England
Contract type: Full time
Looking for a challenge in one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisations?
At IAG Cargo we are in the business of moving things. From antibiotics to rhinoceros, gold bullion to avocados and everything in between. Whatever people need, wherever they are. In an era of digital screens and closed borders, we open the skies and fly the world to bring people the things they really need.
We are the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling). At IAG Cargo, we believe in keeping the world’s economies turning, and do everything with determined attitudes, curious minds, collaborative actions and heartfelt pride. Join us at our globally recognised logistics business, where we are building a great place to work for customers and colleagues alike.
About The Role
Reporting into the Senior FP&A finance manager, this key role will see you take charge of a number of strategically important areas including overseeing budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting and presentation to the Executive team. The role will have a strong focus on shaping the reporting and forecasting activities for the finance department, while gaining extensive experience in different reporting systems and tools, including Anaplan, tableau.
Business partnering is a key skill as the role partners across finance to consolidate P&L risks and opportunities and provide a P&L narrative to the Executive team and IAG Group and the Operating Companies. This role provides a fantastic opportunity to support the Executive Team, including taking the lead on month-end meetings and providing impactful and regular updates to the CFO that influence strategic decision making.
The role includes tracking and monitoring risk and opportunities, challenging business areas on project delivery and initiatives including management, procurement, and transformation initiatives.
This role is well suited for someone with robust systems background, and a desire to deepen expertise, particularly in Anaplan, which is integral to the month-end and forecasting process. A continuous improvement mindset is essential, with a clear focus on reviewing and streamlining existing processes and driving automation for greater efficiency.
To business partner on projects with the wider Cargo business and to develop the reporting and understanding of the financial performance, identifying cost leakages through current processes and procedures, as well as aiding in the creation of investment cases that will ensure the correct decisions are made in interest of the business and its shareholders.
In addition to this the senior finance analyst will be responsible for building and maintaining the right level of internal controls, ownership of the consolidated financial ledger, playing a key role in the formation of business plans & forecasts, and supporting fundamental profitability analysis. Including reporting the financial performance of relevant business areas or operating companies.
What You’ll Do
What you’ll bring to IAG Cargo:
Wherever you work within IAG Cargo, you’ll play a part in helping us deliver what the world needs and join a diverse and inclusive business that’s making a difference.
As well as a competitive salary, bonus, we offer a range of benefits to support our colleagues, which include:
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.
At IAG Cargo we are in the business of moving things. From antibiotics to rhinoceros, gold bullion to avocados and everything in between. Whatever people need, wherever they are. In an era of digital screens and closed borders, we open the skies and fly the world to bring people the things they really need.
We are the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling). At IAG Cargo, we believe in keeping the world’s economies turning, and do everything with determined attitudes, curious minds, collaborative actions and heartfelt pride. Join us at our globally recognised logistics business, where we are building a great place to work for customers and colleagues alike.
About The Role
Reporting into the Senior FP&A finance manager, this key role will see you take charge of a number of strategically important areas including overseeing budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting and presentation to the Executive team. The role will have a strong focus on shaping the reporting and forecasting activities for the finance department, while gaining extensive experience in different reporting systems and tools, including Anaplan, tableau.
Business partnering is a key skill as the role partners across finance to consolidate P&L risks and opportunities and provide a P&L narrative to the Executive team and IAG Group and the Operating Companies. This role provides a fantastic opportunity to support the Executive Team, including taking the lead on month-end meetings and providing impactful and regular updates to the CFO that influence strategic decision making.
The role includes tracking and monitoring risk and opportunities, challenging business areas on project delivery and initiatives including management, procurement, and transformation initiatives.
This role is well suited for someone with robust systems background, and a desire to deepen expertise, particularly in Anaplan, which is integral to the month-end and forecasting process. A continuous improvement mindset is essential, with a clear focus on reviewing and streamlining existing processes and driving automation for greater efficiency.
To business partner on projects with the wider Cargo business and to develop the reporting and understanding of the financial performance, identifying cost leakages through current processes and procedures, as well as aiding in the creation of investment cases that will ensure the correct decisions are made in interest of the business and its shareholders.
In addition to this the senior finance analyst will be responsible for building and maintaining the right level of internal controls, ownership of the consolidated financial ledger, playing a key role in the formation of business plans & forecasts, and supporting fundamental profitability analysis. Including reporting the financial performance of relevant business areas or operating companies.
What You’ll Do
- Responsibility alongside the IAGC reporting team in the consolidation of the overall IAGC management accounts, including support for budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis; including income & expenditure and project tracking.
- Analysing, interpreting and commenting on key movements by P&L item and by directorate against various baselines including prior financial periods and forecasts. Being able to provide variance analysis by key driver and commenting on KPI performance. Review operating results within IAGC and its operating companies BA, IB and EI and the management entity IAGCL.
- Creation of reporting dashboards and preparation and maintenance of standard and ad hoc reports.
- Maintain forecasting models and liaise with local finance teams and business to ensure accuracy and completion of forecasts.
- System expert for reporting. Being a key user and owner of the Anaplan business planning tool for the IAGC reporting team and a system champion among the wider finance team. Previous Anaplan experience is a plus but it is not essential. However an interest in the Anaplan tool will be required.
- Utilize Tableau and Think Cell tools to produce a consistent and powerful set of reports.
- Work closely with the business and perform as a finance business partner relating to projects, identifying improvements and providing challenge to the business
- Proactively identify areas of cost leakage within the current operation and assist the company in rolling out a program of continuous improvement to advance IAG Cargo’s efficiency and customer service proposition. Actively seek out explanations for the root-causes in fluctuations to the cost base against a variety of comparable; including forecasts, budgets and prior years
- Responsible for organising and planning the rolling plan timetable, including arranging reviews with business partners. Ensure submissions deadlines are met and managed.
- Understand and apply group reporting guidelines, IFRS and UK GAAP.
- 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
What you’ll bring to IAG Cargo:
- Practical technical accounting
- Analytical and problem-solving skills including ability to manipulate, analyse and interpret financial and business data
- Able to build and maintain strong relationships
- Proactive and self starter, taking the initiative to explore issues and to generate new ideas and approaches
- Takes responsibility for managing and prioritising own work with the resilience to work under pressure and deliver results to deadlines
- Flexible in approach, responding positively to change
- Able to deal with ambiguity and resilient
- Strong team player with ability to promote good team working and cooperation
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Accounting background, including reporting and financial analysis
- Good understanding of finance theory and good level of practical finance experience in technical group accounting
- Business awareness and commercial acumen developed through the application of finance knowledge and experience
- Commercial aptitude to external global threats and how these can impact a business or industry such as this
- Supporting and writing business cases
- Numerate and accurate
- Excellent skills in excel, Word and PowerPoint
- To be conversational in another language e.g. Spanish
- Experience in finance systems preferably including Thinkcell, Anaplan, Tableau, Business Objects
Wherever you work within IAG Cargo, you’ll play a part in helping us deliver what the world needs and join a diverse and inclusive business that’s making a difference.
As well as a competitive salary, bonus, we offer a range of benefits to support our colleagues, which include:
- A hybrid environment with 3 days a week in the office and two from home.
- 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.
- Flexible bank holiday policy- Individuals not on shift have the flexibility to swap the statutory public holidays, with the days you choose to take off instead.
- All our colleagues get access to LinkedIn learning and Rosetta Stone Language courses
- For health and wellbeing we offer a free onsite gym facility as well as access to the UNMIND app and a community of Mental Health First Aiders
- Access to discounts on Apple, Cinema tickets and loads of other goodies through Perks at work
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.
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