Senior Finance Specialist

Job Purpose

At Emirates Group, we connect the world through our global hub in Dubai, ensuring our customers always ‘Fly Better.’ As one of the most recognised and admired brands globally, we’re driven by innovation and excellence. Join us as a Senior Finance Specialistwithindnata FP&A and play a key role in driving financial strategy and decision-making for a global business. 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.

The selected candidate will provide dedicated financial support to the dnata Travel division, ensuring that all income and expenditure are effectively managed and controlled through the provision of accurate financial information, as well as the analysis and monitoring of costs and spending. The role will also enhance performance monitoring by producing standard business performance reports that identify key issues and KPIs for exception reporting to management, while delivering subject-specific analysis that provides a more granular understanding of the factors driving costs and revenue. In addition, the candidate will provide financial decision-support analysis and recommendations to enable informed business decision-making.

In this role, you will:

• Provide front line advice to complete the annual budget submission to Cost Centre holders for timely completion of budget consolidation at a division level, demonstrating productivity improvements year on year. Provide back up evidence to BFMs/FMs with detailed analysis, in order to appropriately challenge budget assumptions. Ensure that the budget focuses on KPIs for each part of the business and is aligned to the long term plan.
• Collate information on a monthly basis of cash inflows and cash outflows that is incorporated into the model developed to report business specific cash-flow forecasts on a monthly 3 year rolling basis, and perform analysis to reconcile deviations highlighting reasons for changes. Changes to cash flow model for new developments and periods are incorporated at the appropriate time when cash commitments are approved and known.
• Provide continuous hands-on guidance to business managers in terms of financial awareness by educating on financial systems and procedures that govern best practices, specific to business domain cost and revenue drivers, building business cases with financial terminologies such as Net Present Value( NPV), and Return On Investments(ROI) etc.
• Produce requisite reports - at regular specified intervals and focus on diagnosis to provide - alternative solutions for achieving change. (Reports include DCRs, MFRs, weekly reports, revenue/cost reports and subject specific granular level reports etc..,)
• Generate and analyse periodic re-forecasts at the department (cost centre and profit centre) level and corporate level that will include the impact of any post budget development, not originally planned e.g. unbudgeted routes, aircraft acquisitions, delayed recruitment etc. in order to highlight the reasons for deviations.
• Provide financial information to the business managers to initiate work flow processes such as RFPs, P2P, ITSRs, MREs. recommending for approval in line with pre-approved authority limits. Provide guidance to business managers in new business initiatives to secure financially acceptable solutions, highlighting issues where new ventures and initiatives impact existing finance processes, procedures and policies.
• Perform financial accounting activities within dnata Travel, and ensure adequate validation of invoices, accrual generation and reconciliations with appropriate analysis in order to justify accounting activities to internal and statutory auditors.
• Assist the business in establishing end to end financial accounting procedures consequent to new initiatives or new information and provide data capture for new analysis needs using appropriate changes to chart of accounts.
• Provide detailed analysis of new projects to be covered in the project register enabling effective communication within Finance and in turn ensuring the business gets the best overall finance delivery.
• Research and maintain updated relevant benchmarking statistics on key performance indicators of the business, competitors and industry, providing analysis for opportunities to enhance revenue, reduce costs and optimise resources. Provide support to the business in the evaluation of high value contracts to ensure financial risks are adequately covered.
• In consultation with BFM/FM, work towards development and coaching of staff directly reporting into the job holder.

Qualification

In order to be considered for this position, you must meet the below requirements:

• Have a minimum of 5 years of experience within Finance.
• Be a degree holder and hold a relevant professional qualification i.e., BSc, BA, MBA or Qualified Accountant.
• Hold 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.
• The ability to work with the business and a range of stakeholder providing solid advice and building partnerships.
• The ability to identify the right data to be translated into powerful stories through PowerBI.

Join our team of over 100,000 people and follow your passions into one of over 50 brands in the Emirates Group. We’re led by our world-famous airline, Emirates, and our global air services provider, dnata. All our leading brands - in travel, tourism, leisure, aviation, sport and retail - reflect our passion for innovation. We strive for exceptionally high standards in all the products and services we offer and we’ve built an admired global reputation because of it. Work with us to build exciting brands and progress your career in the Emirates Group.

Salary & benefits

Salary & Benefits Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stay around the world. You can find more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what it's like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city can be found in the Dubai lifestyle section.