Senior Finance Specialist - dnata FP&A

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 Specialist within dnata 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 Finan

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 Financial analysis and FP&A processes (implied by context).

Provide front line budget submission support to Cost Centre holders and consolidate budgets at division level; back up BFMs/FMs with detailed analysis to challenge budget assumptions; align budgets to KPIs and long-term plan. Collate monthly cash flow information and maintain a 3-year rolling monthly cash-flow forecast with variance analysis. Educate business managers on financial systems, procedures, cost and revenue drivers, and build business cases using financial terms (NPV, ROI). Produce regular reports (DCRs, MFRs, weekly, revenue/cost reports, granular analyses) for diagnosis and alternative solutions. Generate and analyze periodic re-forecasts at department, cost centre, profit centre, and corporate levels, including post-budget developments. Provide financial information to initiate workflows (RFPs, P2P, ITSRs, MREs) and advise on financially acceptable solutions for new initiatives impacting existing processes. Perform financial accounting activities within dnata Travel, validate invoices, generate accruals, and perform reconciliations for auditors. Establish end-to-end financial accounting procedures for new initiatives and update chart of accounts data. Analyze new projects for the project register to facilitate communication within Finance. Research benchmarking statistics on KPIs and provide analysis to enhance revenue and reduce costs; support evaluation of high-value contracts for financial risk coverage. Coach and develop direct reports in collaboration with BFM/FM.