Job Description

The CORE programme is one of the most high-profile transformational programmes in the business and its key aim is to enable the business to claim its role as an industry disruptor by building a more innovative, agile customer-centric and digitally enabled airline. As Finance Manager you will ensure the high expectations around cost control and benefits delivery are met.

JOB PURPOSE

• To provide a true Finance Business Partner framework to a critical business transformation programme in CORE - ensuring that the programme owner and teams are always supported with the right insight and information
• Deliver high quality regular reporting, financial plans, analysis, and insights, together with insightful commentary, and corrective actions
• Own the benefits phasing, delivery, and tracking vs business case, whilst managing the programme budgeted cost and revenue plan
• Holding the programme team to account on the financial performance and delivery, highlighting any areas of concern / opportunity to the plan in a timely fashion
• Provide support, insight and challenge to programme leads in the evaluation of the programme delivery, highlighting risks and opportunities, delivering robust and well thought through business cases, analysis and projection
• Collaboratively work with Commercial teams to deliver revenue and margin improvements through a clearly defined product roadmap and identifying key threats, opportunities, and remedial action
• Month end reporting, strategic and annual planning, weekly forecasts and providing insightful analysis and updates for the business throughout the course of the programme

Business Partnering

Provides a true Business Partner framework to the CORE work stream, ensuring that the business owners are always supported with the right insight and information. Strong business partnering with cross functional stakeholders including wider finance team to ensure seamless communication and integrity of results and forecasts.

Provides financial support managing:

• Budget and Outlook
• Development of initiatives and tracking delivery
• Monthly reporting and analysis
• SteerCo / InvestCo Submissions
• Weekly P&L re-forecasting
• Business case evaluation and decision support
• 5 year plan forecast

Business Performance and Analytical support:

• Providing monthly detailed analysis and insight into the progress of the programme
• Provides financial evaluation and acts as decision support for revenue driving initiatives
• Responsibility for accurate forecasting and meeting Investment Finance project forecasting deadlines.
• Working closely with the People team and PMO to track permanent headcount costs, recruitment, and resultant financial impact
• Develop reporting and driving confidence in numbers and providing insight into risks and opportunities
• Driving continuous improvements in the programme delivery processes
• Presentation pack detailing updates on finance performance of the programme to senior management (including development and review of InvestCo requests and presentation of management packs to SteerCo)
• Investor relations support for Results announcements

Financial Accounting & control:

• Generates full month end reporting detailing variances to plan and tracking the effectiveness of revenue driving initiatives and cost control
• Responsibility for all control, accounting and reporting activities of the programme
• Working closely with the CORE programme team to ensure the completion of month end close
• Ensures a robust control environment

People Leadership, Relationships and Influence:

You will have responsibility for

• Maintaining effective cross functional relationships
• Providing subject matter expertise and building relationships with a diverse and demanding set of stakeholders
• Influencing the programme delivery to ensure the right decisions are being made for the business

BENEFITS

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Delivering within budgeted cost
• Delivery of revenue targets
• Month End insight and budget variance analysis completed on time and with accurate and clear explanations of movements
• Deliver key insight into finance performance of the programme and ensure latest view is reflected in the rolling forecast
• Support the development of in year and pipeline cost/revenue initiatives
• Qualified accountant with at least 3 years post qualified experience
• Ability to embrace large, complex, preferably fast moving, entities
• Excellent analytical skills with an ability to demonstrate an excellent grasp of variance analysis and the key drivers
• Able to communicate and challenge effectively with key stakeholders at all seniority levels in the organization both finance and non-financial
• Ability to deliver to deadlines with accuracy and attention to detail
• A proactive team player
• An ability to work on own initiative, and has the confidence to offer solutions
• A true self starter, with high levels of motivation and enthusiasm
• Excellent excel skills
• Proven experience in a business partner environment, in a same or similar EMEA or global organization with multiple business units and diverse workforce
• Previously worked on large transformational programmes is desirable