Finance Manager - Direct Operating Costs

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

About the role

Experience a fast-paced, multicultural environment where your financial expertise will be central to shaping the future of aviation while making a meaningful impact on a global stage.

Identify anomalies, outliers, and potential areas to focus on.

In this role, you will:

• Support with annual budgets, full-year forecasts, mid to long-term plans and targets with the business and procurement and drive the delivery of DOC cost targets.
• Act as a trusted advisor and business partner providing support and challenge to their business area to help manage the value of their organisation.
• Support with annual budgets, full-year forecasts, mid to long-term plans and targets with the business and drive the business to deliver them.
• Provide advice and consultancy in the development and validation of business cases to support proposals to invest in new ventures, capital expenditure, and large or long-term commercial agreements.
• Ensure business performance is monitored on a periodic basis through relevant reports, KPIs, and meetings (e.g., MFR/MBRs), including the identification and delegation of actions across the business to improve future business performance.
• Ensure that an appropriate financial control environment exists in the business to protect the shareholders' interest.
• Ensure the Corporate Governance Manuals are followed across the entities.
• Lead the development of the finance teams (regardless of reporting line) within the defined business portfolio to ensure a high-performing finance team.

And specifically to internal reporting:

• Support with driving the monthly FP&A reporting, annual budgeting process, full-year forecasts, mid to long-term plans modelling, and target setting with the business.
• Develop and maintain financial models that provide monthly rolling P&L and cash flow forecasts for dnata consolidated and individual businesses, reconcile forecasts versus actuals, and engage with the business to optimise performance and accuracy of forecasts.

Qualifications & experience

In order to be considered for this role, you must meet the following requirements:

• Degree or honours (12+3 or equivalent).
• Finance and insurance/finance management: 8+ years.
• Degree plus relevant professional qualifications, i.e., MBA or qualified accountant.
• Relevant experience in finance, commercial, or analytical roles including a minimum of 3+ years' experience in an FP&A function with a proven history of delivering real value-add FP&A support to a business in a dynamic and challenging business environment.

You'll have an edge if you have:

• Proven history of delivering real value-add FP&A support to a business.
• Experience providing FP&A support in a dynamic and challenging business environment.
• Demonstrable experience in providing FP&A support through a period of significant business change.
• The ability to work with the business and a range of stakeholders providing solid advice and building partnerships.
• The ability to identify the right data to be translated into powerful stories through PowerBI.
• High proficiency in MS Excel (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, tables, and graph production) as well as PowerBI and MS PowerPoint.

At Emirates Group, we're committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you're looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Recruitment process and timeline

If you are successful, your recruiter will reach out to you with an offer and then our onboarding team will ensure a smooth transition to your new role at Emirates Group.

About the Company

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