Senior Finance Business Partner

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 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 2200 global colleagues.

Purpose of the role

The Finance department as well as the key divisions are undergoing a transformation to deliver efficient and automated processes resulting in enhanced business/financial reporting. The Sr Finance Business Partner will play a key role in driving strategic and operational decision making delivering valuable financial insights that drive better business performance.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic Finance Partnering: Build strong relationships with global function leads and stakeholders acting as a trusted advisor to drive business performance and financial accountability.
• Financial Planning & Performance Management: Lead the preparation and of business plans establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and proactively identify risks and opportunities while supporting the business in developing solutions.
• DataDriven Decision Support: Provide accurate insightful financial analysis and deliver clear concise recommendations to senior leaders to support informed decisionmaking.
• Continuous Improvement & Reporting: Work closely with analysts and the reporting teams to enhance planning reporting and performance analysis through automation and process improvements.
• Cost & Investment Optimisation: Monitor and challenge spending payroll and thirdparty supplier costs to ensure optimal return on investment value for money and waste elimination.
• CrossFunctional Collaboration: Partner with other finance teams to foster a strong finance community that delivers valueadded support.
• Project & Initiative Support: Contribute financial expertise to various business initiatives transformation projects and strategic priorities.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Own the budgeting and forecasting process across transformation and operations ensuring accuracy transparency and alignment with business objectives.
• Risk & Opportunity Management: Continuously assess financial risks and opportunities providing proactive insights and recommendations to mitigate risk and drive performance.

Knowledge skills and experience required

• Experience in a similar role ideally at a complex multinational corporation
• Accountancy qualification desired (ACA/ACCA preferred)
• Excellent communication negotiation presentation and influencing skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills with the ability to influence negotiate and build relationships across all levels.
• Ability to interpret data analyse using appropriate tools and present in a clear and concise form
• Excellent spread sheet PowerPoint and modelling skills
• Ability to work independently and challenge respectfully
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate complex financial information into actionable insights for nonfinance stakeholders
• A proactive independent thinker who can challenge constructively and drive continuous improvement.

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: Take Action 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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