Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner

4 weeks ago


Whiteley, Hampshire, United Kingdom NATS Full time

NATS is the UK's leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights each year. It provides air traffic control services from two control centres supporting airports all around the UK, as well as a wide range of commercial solutions to over 30 countries internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

Job Purpose:

As a key member of the NATS UK finance team, you will partner with the business and its leadership teams to provide pricing support, financial management, expert advice, and consultancy on financially related matters. You will support the Head of Finance, UK in being a thought leader in all business aspects across the UK P&L, helping to identify and drive pan P&L and pan NSL improvement activities. This role supports delivery of the wider finance vision, seeking to shape the future of aviation as a trusted business partner focused on efficiency, collaboration, and innovation, as well as leading by example on our values of Growth, Control, and Challenge.

  1. Act as Finance lead on bid management teams, making decisions on bid pricing based on your financial modelling that links to the Business strategies.
  2. Ensure pricing remains current and fit for purpose across the business.
  3. Provide effective commercial procedures, or initiate change, to ensure key operational, commercial & financial targets are delivered.
  4. Provide robust financial Governance to ensure corporate governance is being complied with and that any exceptions are being addressed.
  5. Work with Programmes teams to ensure material value business cases/commercial contracts balance affordability, deliverability, and benefits in line with our commitments to external stakeholders.
  6. Support commercial negotiation of material customer and supplier contracts, ensuring that financial elements of such are complete, unambiguous, adopt appropriate accounting treatments, are not unduly onerous, and are consistent with negotiated agreements and financial plans.
  7. Promote financial policy deployment and implementation plans, ensure business feedback into business planning and financial reporting, and promote financial policy compliance.
  8. Mentor and support Finance team members to ensure they are appropriately motivated and developed to perform their role.

Essential Skills and Experience:

  1. A qualified accountant, either ACA, ACCA, or CIMA, with relevant post-qualification experience.
  2. Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting complex financial data and concepts to senior staff.
  3. Utilise analytical skills beyond traditional functions of finance, to deal with a broad range of commercial issues.
  4. Confidence to challenge and persuade key stakeholders, to build relationships achieve business objectives, maintaining personal and professional convictions.

We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally. In addition to a competitive salary that's regularly reviewed, you'll also benefit from a wide range of other benefits which includes generous leave entitlement, a market-leading defined contribution pension scheme, a range of voluntary benefits and retail discounts, wellness support and a comprehensive learning and development offering.

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe - we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.



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