Manager Corporate Strategy

1 month ago

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Etihad Airways Full time
Synopsis

The purpose of the Corporate Strategy team is to drive the development, alignment, and execution of corporate strategy across EY, aligning with the Board's mandate and corporate vision.

This individual will be part of the team supporting this, and as a result will be responsible tracking a subset of the business area scorecards, of profitability improvement initiatives, of materials for Board and other external stakeholder communication and subsidiaries' performance. Further to that, individual is expected to deep dive in strategic topics as required, incl. structuring the problem, contributing to the design of the plan to address it, and monitoring/ supporting to drive its implementation and raising flags as adequate. As a result, the role requires strong problem solving and analytical skills, financial literacy, oral and verbal communication skills, incl. preparing high quality communication materials, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders across multiple areas.

Accountabilities

Performance management and business area scorecards:

  • Support the process of setting of KPIs, weights, and targets for the scorecard of each business area, including detailing and documenting the calculation formula, process and owner for each KPI
  • Drive monthly tracking of a subset of business area scorecards, as per set definitions/ owners, facilitate discussion, ensure alignment with each business area owner and their appointees and understanding of major deviations vs. previous periods and targets (business areas to be allocated by team member)

Profit improvement initiatives:

  • Support the identification of profit improvement initiatives, generally during the budget cycle but also throughout the year through partnering closely with the business and the finance business partners, and understanding/ finding initiative opportunities, as well as challenging for further impact and ensuring alignment with set strategic priorities
  • Track the impact of profit improvement initiatives, having a detailed understanding of its calculation, and provide regular updates on progress and outcomes to senior team members (initiatives to be tracked to be allocated by team member)
  • Follow up on the execution of the plans set for key profit improvement initiatives, driving action and raising flags whenever adequate (key initiatives to be allocated by team member)
  • Support the consolidation of presentations for meetings of the Board of Directors, Strategy & Investment Committee:
  • Support the collection of inputs and the creation of decks and other materials for Board of Directors' meetings, ensuring the highest level of quality and relevance to the agendas discussed
  • Ensure deep understanding of the topics being brought forward, discussing with relevant stakeholders as adequate and ensuring alignment on the presented materials (topics to be allocated by team member)

Other strategic initiatives:

  • Develop ad-hoc impactful communication materials, including crafting compelling narratives, clear visuals, and concise documents, for senior leadership and key external stakeholders (materials/ meetings to be allocated by team member)
  • Perform competitor analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, while leveraging benchmarking data to assess Etihad's performance against industry peers for strategic insight
  • Analyse monthly performance of select subsidiaries vs. previous period and budget, ensuring key variations are properly understood and synthesizing their performance to senior team members and other areas within Finance
  • Support the team, and SM, in addressing potential internal audit open points, improving internal processes and ensuring adequate documentation/ trail within the team
  • Support strategic analysis and evaluation of new markets, opportunities, alliances, utilizing a blend of strategic thinking and data-driven methodologies
Education & Experience
  • Bachelor's Degree Required, master's degree Desired, preferably in Finance or Management.
  • Strong business acumen and an analytical approach to problem-solving, leveraging data analysis and financial insights to drive structured and informed decision-making
  • Ability to deliver high quality reports and presentations paying attention to detail, ready for the review of senior team members
  • Talent for developing compelling and concise storylines, and materializing them in well thought through slides/communication materials
  • Collaborative workstyle, through close dialogue and communication with team and key stakeholders
  • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, with a large toolbox of visualisation tools/techniques
  • Preferably 2-3 years airline domain experience, and ideally bring experience from other sectors such as Retail or Hospitality
  • At least 5 years functional experience including consulting, strategy, financial roles

About Etihad Airways

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, was formed in 2003 and quickly went on to become one of the world's leading airlines. From its home in Abu Dhabi, Etihad flies to passenger and cargo destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. Together with Etihad's codeshare partners, Etihad's network offers access to hundreds of international destinations. In recent years, Etihad has received numerous awards for its superior service and products, cargo offering, loyalty programme and more. Etihad is recognised as one of the world's leading airlines in response to COVID-19 and was the first airline in the world to fully vaccinate its crew on board.

Etihad sees tackling the climate crisis as the most important issue of our time, and through strategic partnerships with major global aviation brands and OEMs, Etihad is relentless in its pursuit of industry decarbonisation.

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