Collinson is a privately-owned entrepreneurial business, who services over 800 clients in 170 countries, employs 2,000 staff in 28 global locations, and manages over 20 million end customers. Our industry and sector specialists provide market-leading experience across three core capabilities: Loyalty, Lifestyle Benefits, and Insurance.

Collinson is the world-leading provider of lifestyle membership programs and travel enhancement products. Our solutions include Priority Pass, the world’s best known airport experiences programme, while we are also the trusted partner behind many of the leading financial services, airline and hotel brands’ reward programmes and loyalty initiatives.

With a tiered product range tailored to the needs of financial and other service providers, we help clients to differentiate their products, drive acquisition, optimize brand offerings and retain valuable customers globally. Our unique expertise and insight into high earning, frequent travelers allow us to create products and solutions for our clients that inspire greater customer engagement to drive more profitable relationships, enrich their travel experiences, protect what matters, and assist in times of need.

While specializing in financial services, travel, and retail, we also support clients in multiple sectors. We have worked with over 90 airlines, 20 hotel groups and more than 600 financial institutions and banks, with clients including Accor Hotels, Air France KLM, American Express, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Diners Club, Mandarin Oriental, Mastercard, Radisson Hotel Group, Sephora, Visa and Vhi. We take our 30 years of experience working with these kinds of household names and help our clients to deliver the smarter experiences it takes to differentiate their propositions and help them win deeper devotion with their customers.

What does a FP&A and Reporting Manager do?

The Commercial Finance department is key to delivering a suite of financial reporting and analysis to support the regional business leaders. In addition, the department is tasked with leading the FP&A for the region, including the budgeting and reforecasting efforts as well as any other commercial analysis that may be required. We are undergoing a transformation to deliver efficient and automated processes resulting in enhanced business/financial reporting. The FP&A and Reporting Manager role is key to deliver the following:

• Accurate monthly management reporting and variance analysis
• Explanations to key performance metrics
• Working capital forecasting, including weekly cashflow forecasts
• Management of a small team
• Ownership of the budgeting process and coordination of inputs in a timely and accurate manner
• Being fully accountable for all forecasting submissions and timetables, including rolling forecasts and client/product level P&L’s in region
• Owning the regional reporting for the commercial and partnerships team
• Supporting the regional teams and global FP&A function as necessary

What will you do?

While management accounts and other regionalization overlays will be performed by the FinOps team, this position is accountable for the output produced elsewhere.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver accurate and timely Management Accounting commentary on a monthly basis
• Deliver all Group reporting requirements by the agreed deadlines, including the board pack commentary
• Work with FinOps and commercial teams to ensure accurate accruals and revenue recognition practices are being followed
• Own the rolling forecast process and timelines
• Own the working capital forecast, including weekly cashflow forecasts
• Provide client/product level P&L’s for decision making on a monthly basis
• Produce budgets, in cooperation with Finance Business Partners
• As a key stakeholder, play a vital role in the delivery of all projects and systems upgrades affecting the financial reporting
• Support Financial Controller – Americas on statutory audits and compliance reporting, as needed (i.e., data for tax computations, other, as applicable)
• Deliver ad hoc reporting and deliverables as required

What You'll Need:

• Qualified and experienced accountant with significant experience in high volume/low margin global environment
• Very strong FP&A experience, ideally from a global, multi-currency business (T/O £1bn)
• Strong technical knowledge – up to date expertise in US GAAP
• Strong modelling and forecasting skills
• Can relate to all levels in the organisation and with gravitas to deal with executive boards.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics a strong advantage
• Experience managing an FP&A team is a must.
• Experience of working with commercial contracts very advantageous

Commercial Acumen

• An understanding of commercial contracts and ability to ensure the accounting to contract is accurate and can be discussed with both external and internal stakeholders.

Leadership, People and Management

• Good collaborator, relationship builder, networker – builds strong working relationships with all key stakeholders internally and externally.
• Hands-on “do-er” but able to manage people.
• Used to working to and managing to tight deadlines and thrives under pressure – able to multi-task, delegate as appropriate.

Innovation and Problem Solving

• Strong improvement, focus, likes projects and change, adaptable, flexible and strives for continual improvement towards world class performance.
• Leveraging peer to peer connections & insight to assess the impact of proposals and plans

You can look forward to a competitive salary and benefit plan including but not limited to:

• 100% employer paid medical, dental, life & LTD insurance for employees
• 100% match to your 401k deferrals (limited) with 100% vesting at 6 months
• Supplemental Insurance including STD, additional Life
• Priority Pass Membership
• Global Mentoring Program
• Wellness Programs
• Lifestyle Benefits

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: color, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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If you need any extra support throughout the interview process, then please email us at ushr@collinsongroup.com