Financial Control Manager (12 Months FTC)

Collinson is the global privately-owned 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 market-leading 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 role

The Group Reporting Team is committed to providing robust financial information with meaningful insight and driving ongoing enhancements to financial reporting processes and financial controls. As part of the Group Reporting Team you will be responsible for supporting the roll-out embedding and maintenance of the Minimum Control Framework Requirements across the Group.

Your role will involve collaboration with global finance teams and global process owners to support the enhancement and embedding of best practice controls as defined in our Minimum Control Requirements Policy and facilitate self-assessment processes to ensure control effectiveness and compliance to control requirements.

The role combines a requirement for knowledge of financial processes systems and controls with good communication skills and interpersonal skills. The ability to demonstrate initiative strong analytical skills attention to detail and to prioritise effectively are also key to the role.

Collinson is a dynamic business undergoing a period of significant transformation and the role will support on related projects.

Key Responsibilities

Controls and policy work including:

• Support roll-out of new minimum control requirements across relevant processes and geographies;
• Assist finance teams and global process owners in interpreting and applying minimum control requirements and best practice for controls in their processes;
• Deliver training to aid the embedding of minimum control requirements;
• Support finance teams and global process owners in completing self-assessments of their control environments;
• Monitor the completion and quality of self-assessment certifications through interviews and reviews identify gaps and areas for improvement
• Support remediation planning and progress tracking where control weaknesses are identified.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the Financial Control Framework and associated governance processes.
• As Collinson is a dynamic business and currently undergoing a period of significant transformation the role will be involved in other ad-hoc finance projects as these arise.

Knowledge skills and experience required

The successful applicant will ideally have a recognised accountancy qualification (ACCA/ACA or overseas equivalent) and demonstrable experience with control frameworks. Either implementing or managing controls in a finance or operational environment.

• Strong understanding of financial processes and controls
• Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail
• Strong communication skills and ability to maintain good working relationships with global subsidiary finance teams
• Comfortable delivering training
• Able to prioritise effectively and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Ability to work as part of a global or multi-functional team and be collaborative
• Proficient in Excel PowerPoint and Word

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 on-going 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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