Finance Analyst - Insurance

Please note this is a hybrid role with 2 days a week in Haywards Heath office.

Excel skills and previous experience in Financial Analysis are required.

Collinson is the global privatelyowned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide marketleading airport experiences loyalty and customer engagement and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass the worlds original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1500 lounges and travel experiences including dining retail sleep and spa in over 650 airports in 148 countries helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the worlds leading payment networks over 1400 banks 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1800 global colleagues.

Purpose of the job

To work within the Insurance Division and provide support to help deliver the Insurance Strategy. Specifically the role will assist in delivering financial insight improving finance processes reporting and preparation of quarterly forecasts and annual budgets.

The role is critical to aiding the streamlining of both routine and adhoc reporting requirements and reports to the Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner

To support the commercial finance and business partnering deliverables team and be a key contributor to evolving finance as a trusted partner to the business for Collinson.

Key Responsibilities

• To prepare monthly reporting of the Insurance result including analysis of key variances and identification of risks and opportunities.
• To help produce quarterly forecasts and annual budgets submitting on time to Group Finance once approved.
• Gain knowledge of loading and reporting in the consolidated Group Infor system.
• Help deliver the Commercial Finance Teams goal of implementing its own bespoke budgeting software Tagetik
• Assist with driving profitable growth across the Division
• Among other regular monthend reports the production of monthly financial KPI dashboards
• Assist in providing scenario modelling commercial pricing support and analysis to support client propositions and business decisions.
• Ad hoc support / analysis where required

Knowledge skills and experience required

• Good Communication skills both written and oral
• Strong IT skills Intermediate/Advanced Excel
• ACCA/CIMA part qualified / University Graduate preferably Maths
• Experience of SAP preferred
• Has to be a selfstarter inquisitive and happy to work independently when required
• Ability to work under pressure to strict deadlines and deliver results.
• Highly motivated and focused on achieving company goals

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoing success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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