Lead Business Finance Officer

Job Summary

The position holder is responsible for providing Financial Analysis to ensure optimal allocation of resources, providing insightful information and assisting the department to follow Group accounting policies as appropriate.
Key Accountabilites
• Assist develop advanced financial models and conduct analysis using a broad range of quantitative tools and techniques (trend analyses on past financial and operational performance, root cause analyses, analysis of profitability drivers, scenario modelling for future options, unit-cost benchmarking, etc.)
• Assist establish corporate and department financial goals and work with departments to build budgets and forecasts meeting these targets
• Analyse actuals, forecasts, and budgets and prepare analyses for upper management of Division and corporate performance against benchmarks
• Analyse capital spending projects and make recommendations for approval, rejection, or rework
• Facilitate one or more corporate wide projects such as cash flow modelling, long-term strategic plan models, or cost cutting initiatives
• Coordinate development of business cases and scenario models to drive better business decisions
• Support developing Business Cases justifying large capital projects, explaining financial performance, or the financial forecast
• Meet weekly with senior management as required to discuss capital or headcount needs and help divisions obtain resources.
• Create reports and presentations for senior management
• Analyse and interpret financial data for use in management reviews and decisions
• Prepare quantitative regression analysis and statistical analysis of revenue databases and airline industry databases to analyse revenue performance and provide recommendations to improve revenue;
• Analyse monthly revenue performance by route, channel, PoS
• Conduct ad hoc revenue analysis for senior management
• Assist develop and maintain a competitive intelligence framework for benchmarking against regional rivals and mature carriers.
• Maintain a financial best practices platform, both, industry-specific and cross industries.

Management & Leadership