Finance Analyst

About Us

We are part of International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world's leading airline groups and owner of some of the biggest brands in the sky.

IAG Transform provides creative and innovative solutions to drive sustainable transformation by delivering procurement and airline services, as well as group-wide systems across IAG. Each operating company benefits from the Transform centralised model, driving efficiencies, automation, and economies of scale.

Purpose of the role

Work closely with Finance Business Partners from the operating companies across a full range of our operations and conduct a wide range of analysis – from monthly P&L, through standard MI reports to on
request analytics.

Your responsibilities

• Review and provide performance management information for project portfolios including spend analysis, providing insight to FBPs on costs and benefits and commenting on adverse variances, risks and opportunities and options to address these.
• Conduct financial modelling and scenario analysis which informs strategic decisions and supports project management, business cases and capital forecasting.
• Conduct critical analysis of monthly P&L, and other MI reports to support planning, forecasting and understand the performance of the operating company business units, ensuring commentary is relevant, insightful and accurate with risks and opportunities identified and solutions offered.
• Analyse variances and explore potential issues, make recommendations to the Finance Business Partner and advise on impact.
• Provide analysis to support decisions on third-party contracts, including financial modelling of scenarios for optimal contract terms to minimise expenditures.
• Constructively challenge analytics processes and methodologies, recommending changes that enhance and constantly improve the quality of output.
• Provide information to respond to external audit requirements.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis to support FBP organisation using Tableau, Power BI, Excel or other tools.
• Provide productivity analysis to drive improvements and cost savings.
• Own the production of capital cash forecasting information, highlighting trends and tracking performance.
• Provide information and analytics to support the financial and business planning process.

Your skills, experience and qualifications

• Good level of knowledge of Financial Accounting and reporting professional accounting standards
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast moving, global environment with tight deadlines and finite resources
• Strong customer focus; commitment to exceed customer expectations and continuous improvement
• Experience in Variance analysis
• Proficient command of Excel; VBA desired
• Fluent spoken and written English; Spanish will be an asset
• Strong interpersonal and communication skill

What we offer  

• The chance to enjoy a challenging career in an exciting, fast-moving environment in a dynamic industry.

• The opportunity to work in a multi-cultural environment with great offices in many locations. We support our people in maintaining work/life balance, as well as providing the many benefits one would expect from a global organisation, including health insurance, pension and performance bonuses.

We are an equal opportunities employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law