Senior Finance Specialist - dnata FP&A

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.

• 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…