Commercial Finance Manager

Commercial Finance Manager

Join to apply for the Commercial Finance Manager role at Collinson

Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the world’s largest companies. Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities:
Loyalty, Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance.

The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers, creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.

We have more than 25 years’ experience, with 28 global locations, servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries, employing 1,800 people.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception – from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include:
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, Easy Jet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1,800 colleagues globally.

The Commercial Finance Manager is a valued member of the Finance Team contributing to the strategic opportunities in the Travel Experiences division at a Global or Regional level. Examples of these may include:

• Proposition Pricing
• Sensitivity Analysis
• Market-Entry or “Power Up” Strategies
• Evaluation of Client Requests
• Global reporting, forecasting and budgeting
• Ad Hoc (solving for challenges, realising opportunities, regulatory issues, major client requests)

You will work closely with the Global Commercial Finance Team to drive forward key projects across the entire spectrum of the Travel Experiences division, collaborating with the Americas stakeholders to gather information, make recommendations, seek alignment to get them delivered and track results in a timely manner.

You will be leveraging globally available pricing and analysis tools or building innovative bespoke models that are flexible, automated and aligned to global commercial frameworks. Regular external (client) contact is also expected.

The Americas region encompasses the United States, Canada and Latin America countries.

• Financial modelling / business casing, competitive analysis, consumer research, legal or regulatory guidelines
• Clear project definition (scope, desired outputs, key stakeholders)
• Gather the essential information – facts and views – from key stakeholders and interrogate logically and rationally
• Develop recommendations, with clear rationale
• Present the output with a clear story, from current situation through to recommendation
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to align to a recommendation, and feed into the delivery process
• Support the Commercial and Marketing teams in framing problems and opportunities, or with commercial modelling, and the presentation of these both internally and externally
• Help define our future strategy
• Build, maintain and enhance relationships with other internal teams and external partnerships
• Detailed involvement on business planning quarterly and annually as well as monthly reporting

• Strategic mindset
• Problem-solving ability, using both creative and/or structured thinking as necessary
• Strong commercial modelling skills (including Excel)
• Collaborative, easy to work with
• A good communicator (use and awareness of verbal and non-verbal, presenting, PPT)
• Experience of forming…