Finance Business Partner

3 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Collinson Full time

Here at Collinson, we like to think big, take big ideas, and create products and services that support our four core capabilities**:Loyalty**, **Travel Experiences**, **Insurance**, and **Assistance**. Our talented experts have helped nurture and develop a suite of products that enhance the passenger experience for over 20 million managed customers each year, with 28 offices globally, we enrich and provide confidence in the traveller journey with our world-renowned **Priority Pass**, **Lounge Key**, and **Lounge Pass** products that allow access to a global VIP airport lounge program

**What does a Finance Business Partner at Collinson do?**

You will be a key contributor to the deliverables of the commercial business partnering team, as well as the reporting teams, helping to evolve the finance function as a trusted partner to the business for EMEA region, across all products and clients.

You will provide commercial business partnering challenge and support to the Finance Director - EMEA and commercial teams in pursuit of:

- Driving revenue and profit, in line with a clear customer, partner and channel strategy
- Delivering a coordinated go to market strategy across business development, account management and marketing
- Managing risks and developing opportunities for the EMEA P&L
- Coordinating inputs from the entire region and be able to view regional impact per client and product P&L

By timely provision of:

- Relevant, accurate and insightful management information
- Scenario planning (cost of service based on volume changes, location and type of service offered)
- Commercial modelling
- Commercial pricing support
- Benchmarking and analysis

**Your duties will include and are not limited to the following activities and tasks**:

- Own the sub-regional P&L by liaising with client services teams on the ground and across the region, with inputs from the reporting and FinOps teams
- Be a proactive finance business partner for the GM of our MEA office(s)
- Be part of the larger EMEA finance team and proactively seek to improve on output and support the team provides to the central finance teams and the UK-based management:

- Commercial finance review of monthly management reporting information, working with financial control teams to support accuracy of reported numbers (“top down” reporting)
- Tracking of investments, payroll costs, and third-party supplier spend, working with Finance Business Partner - EMEA to control budget spend and create course changing actions
- Review and challenge of monthly performance with the Head of Reporting - EMEA and tracking of agreed key drivers and client/product profitability, including new business performance
- Assist the EMEA team in delivering the reforecast and budgeting processes for the MEA region, with a focus on Loyalty (but not limited to)
- Tactical support, as required, and tracking of project spend for cost and benefit realisation
- Supporting business plans and performance management, highlighting risks and opportunities, whilst assisting the business to identify solutions
- Working with analysts and reporting teams to deliver insight through continuous improvement across planning, reporting and detailed performance analysis

**How will you add value?**
- Stakeholder management across the region, ensuring positive dialogue and collaboration
- Collaboration with finance teams both in Europe, the Group and across the Capability teams
- Commercial finance business partnering experience, preferably from within loyalty
- Qualified accountant (full or part qualified)
- Excellent (advanced) spread sheet and modelling skills
- Strong analysis capability
- Excellent interpersonal communications, good listener, persuasive manner

Our values form the foundation of our business, and the Collinson company culture is built around these values that help to shape a long-term, financially successful enterprise for both our customers and employees. They are summarized across four pillars**:Act smarter**, **Do the right thing**, **One team**, and **Be insight-led**.

Collinson’s journey started over 30 years ago, when our chairman, Colin Evans, was Managing Director of IAPA, a global travel benefits business with a history stretching back to 1963. We have a team of 1700 people employees serving over 5 million customers each year. In 2020 Collinson was included in both the Top Track 100 and the Profit Track 100 lists from the Sunday Times



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