Interim Sr Finance Business Partner 1 year FTC

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

We are looking for a Interim Senior Finance Business Partner to come and join the team on a 1 year contract. This role will provide value added finance business partnering support to senior management across several functions. The Finance Business Partner is a key role in working alongside these business areas influencing strategic and operational decision making and providing insights that drive better business performance.

This role will be responsible for:

• Taking a lead in engaging partnering and building relationships with the Business Services leads colleagues and other stakeholders as necessary.
• Providing valueadded financial insight and support driving continuous improvement in business performance.
• Providing constructive challenge to business plans and performance identifying risks and opportunities and proactively supporting function leads to find solutions.
• Providing clear advice on financial management and strategy to ensure informed decisions can be made.
• Manage and mentor junior FBPs with 2 direct reports.
• Work with operational finance to deliver insight through continuous improvements in planning reporting and detailed performance analysis.
• Working with function leads and teams to agree financials forecasts and plans understand changes in them and explain these to a senior finance and nonfinance stakeholders.
• Collaborating with other finance business partners and finance teams across Collinson to build a finance community that delivers effective and valueadded support to the business.
• Providing effective challenge on spend and costs to ensure Collinson maximizes return on investment creates value for money and eliminates waste.
• Fully engaged in tendering and supplier renewals to ensure best outcome for Collinson.
• Supporting various business initiatives and projects as required.
• Providing adhoc analytical support to function leads as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Monthly business and executive reporting
• Budgeting forecasting and business planning process
• Internal analysis and cost management (including recharges)
• Business analysis and decision support
• Risk and opportunity management
• Staff management direct report and dotted line team members
• Business case and investment management
• Product project and initiative financial modelling

Knowledge skills & experience required

• CIMA qualification required (ACA/ACCA acceptable)
• Experience in a similar group level role ideally at a complex multinational matrix corporation Excellent communication negotiation presentation and influencing skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills up to C Suite Level stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret data analyse using appropriate tools and present in a clear and concise form.
• Collaborative and persuasive manner.
• Understanding of risk working with ambiguity and able to form and support opinions Commercially aware understanding the needs of operations finance and management.

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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