Senior Finance Business Partner

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** Job Description
**** The Role
** The Senior Finance Business Partner is a senior finance leadership role responsible for partnering with the Global Strategic Partnerships team to drive commercial performance, support strategic decision-making and improve financial outcomes across the business. Working closely with the VP Commercial Finance, Partnerships & Overheads and senior stakeholders across Global Strategic Partnerships, the role provides financial leadership on strategic partner relationships, investment decisions, commercial initiatives and growth opportunities.

It ensures decisions are supported by robust financial analysis, commercial insight and a clear focus on value creation.

The role acts as a trusted deputy to the VP Commercial Finance, Partnerships & Overheads, supporting engagement with executive stakeholders and business leadership through meaningful financial insight, strategic challenge and performance recommendations. It plays a key part in shaping commercial strategy for strategically important Tier 1 and Tier 1A partnerships and driving accountability for financial performance across the organisation.

Alongside its business partnering responsibilities, the role leads the ongoing evolution of the Partnerships Finance function and manages three Finance Business Partners. This includes establishing consistent ways of working across regions, improving the quality, timeliness and relevance of financial reporting, strengthening governance, standardising processes and driving continuous improvement across planning, forecasting and performance management.

The role works closely with FP&A, Commercial Finance, Tax, Operations, Product, Legal and Contracting teams to improve financial insight, develop meaningful performance measures and create scalable finance processes that support strategic decision-making and operational excellence.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Act as the senior finance partner to the Global Strategic Partnerships team.
* Partner closely with the VP Commercial Finance, Partnerships & Overheads to support strategic planning, executive stakeholder engagement and business performance management.
* Support the development and execution of growth strategies for strategically important Tier 1 and Tier 1A partnerships.
* Influence business decisions through commercial insight, financial analysis and constructive challenge.
* Support commercial negotiations, contract discussions and strategic partner reviews.
* Develop compelling financial insights, recommendations and performance narratives for senior leadership.
* Drive improved understanding of partner economics, profitability drivers and value creation opportunities.
* Partner with the Finance Analytics team to improve partnership financial analytics and KPIs, including the development of models such as lounge profitability.
* Lead, coach and develop a team of three regional Finance Business Partners.
* Establish consistent expectations, deliverables and operating standards across regions.
* Build organisational capability across the Finance Business Partnering team.
* Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, curiosity and continuous improvement.
* Lead the continuous improvement agenda across the global Partnerships Finance function.
* Drive standardisation of forecasting, budgeting, month-end analysis and performance reporting across all regions.
* Improve the efficiency, quality and scalability of Finance Business Partnering activity.
* Develop strong partnerships…