Finance Business Partner It

Looking for a challenge in one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisations?

At IAG Cargo, we’re in the business of moving things. From antibiotics and rhinoceroses to gold bullion, avocados, and everything in between, whatever people need, wherever they are, IAG Cargo is there to bring them the necessary and niche.

As the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group, you’ll work across the globally recognised brands of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling.

As well as helping to keep the world’s economies turning, we believe in building a great place for our colleagues to work. Our people are determined, curious, collaborative and take huge pride in everything they do.

**The role**:
**FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER - IT**

As the Finance Business Partner (IT) your responsibilities include providing comprehensive and insight financial information to support and influence key business decisions. The role will include control and supervision of the end to end finance operation, financial forecasting & analysis, balance sheet reconciliations and business case delivery. Lead financial and business reporting and forecasting processes for these areas ensuring costs are accurately reported and tightly controlled.

**What you’ll do**:

- Present complex information in an accessible and meaningful way to focus and drive improvements in financial performance.
- Prepare and track Business Plans, Financial Plans (includes budgeting, planning and forecasting) and Local Targets using appropriate modelling techniques where required.
- Control and decision support activities - Identify, influence and implement opportunities for cost reduction and/or revenue improvement through insightful monitoring and analysis of financial performance.
- Control and management of project accounting activities, including insight and evaluation of project success, production of business cases which facilitates key investment decisions and robust tracking to ensure project control and delivery.
- Promote change - Driving continuous process improvements via automation and standardisation.
- Training, coaching, and supervising junior staff based on business needs
- Actively build and maintain strong relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues at all levels Across IAG Cargo, BA, Iberia and other group airlines
- Adhere to all corporate, statutory and regulatory requirements. Ensure an appropriate and robust financial control environment, from posting journals to balance sheet reconciliations.
- Provide information and support where required to internal and external Auditors

**What you’ll bring to IAG Cargo**:

- Analytical and problem-solving skills including ability to analyse and interpret financial and business data
- Able to present financial information clearly and concisely with great insight and influence
- Able to build and maintain strong relationships
- Proactive, takes initiative to explore issues and to generate new ideas and approaches
- Able to build and maintain strong relationships
- Flexible in approach, responding positively to change
- Able to deal with ambiguity
- Strong team player with ability to promote good team working and cooperation
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to deal with senior management
- Takes responsibility for managing and prioritising own work with the resilience to work under pressure and deliver results to deadlines

**Your experience**:
**Essential experience**
- Strong understanding of finance theory and good level of practical finance experience in management accounting
- Senior stakeholder management, including presenting to board level
- People Management
- Numerate and accurate
- Strong IT skills in MS Office and preferably experience of finance systems including SAP, S4Hana, Anaplan, Thinkcell
- Commercial aptitude to external global threats and how these can impact a business or industry such as this
- Experienced in providing business case support, project tracking and delivery of investments/initiative portfolios
- Previous people manager experience

**Desirable Experience**
- To be conversational in Spanish

**What we offer**:
Wherever you work within IAG Cargo, you’ll play a part in connecting people and countries and join a diverse and inclusive business that’s making a difference to the future of aviation.

Colleagues working for IAG Cargo:

- Benefit from attractive and competitive rewards aligned to the local market and role.
- From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways and group airlines. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.
- Work with diverse colleagues in a business that truly values inclusion and diversity.
- Are valued for their ideas and opinions.
- Benefit from opportunities for development and progression.
- Are able