Finance Controller Specialist

Purpose of the role

As part of FP&A, the Finance Business Partner for Central Services is responsible for partnering with the People, Labour Relations and Corporate Directorates to support strategic and operational decision-making through financial planning, analysis and business insight.

The role provides financial leadership across the full planning cycle, ensuring robust forecasting, budgeting and performance management while challenging business decisions, identifying opportunities and supporting the delivery of Iberia's strategic objectives.

FP&A challenges are related to:

• Provide useful data in shorter time and adding more value to drive better business decisions.
• CAPEX and OPEX optimization. Challenge the organization to spend the limited resources available on the most profitable projects or initiatives.
• Handling uncertainty to provide good insight without having 100% of the information required to make decisions.
• Helps on producing new and relevant insights.
• It's a facilitator for complex analysis.
• Extract value from technology (Common Finance System).
• Providing consistent and unified view of data.
• Liaise with other areas of IAG group to extract the value expected from implementing a group strategy.

• Follow up KPI's and make recommendations to close gaps or potentiate strengths.
• Monthly reporting to give insights to the directorate.
• Participates in projects with relevant impact across the organization and the group.
• Works with internal and external stakeholders to analyze, develop and implement business needs.
• Provide high quality performance analysis of the Financial statements.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative analysis and data to support the management decision making process.
• Promote data driven culture within the company.

• Drive business transformation to achieve the financial goals.
• Promote a data driven robust planning, budgeting and forecasting process.

Directors, Managers and Colleagues from FP&A, Key Business stakeholders and contacts. Key interactions within IB Finance.

IAG Group (Corporate and OpCos), IAG Affiliates and GBS Organization (Finance, Procurement and IT).

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics or Business Administration
• Master's in Finance or MBA is desirable
• Effective and strong Powerpoint skills is a must.
• SAP technical knowledge.
• Familiarized with PowerBI.
• Autonomous and proactive.
• Ability to interact and maintain effective business relationships.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Solid Excel and database skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Cost reduction mindset.

• 3-5 years of Business/Financial Analysis.
• Consulting experience is desirable.

• Analytics
• Problem solving
• Time management and planning
• Communication
• Results oriented