Finance Transformation Lead

As the nation’s flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain. It’s something we’ve been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world’s first international scheduled air service between London and Paris. This originality has been in our blood since day one. It’s the spirit we share with the people that fly with us, our partners, and our colleagues.

The role: An exciting opportunity to join British Airways as a Finance Transformation Process lead has arisen! In this role you will support the end-to-end design process of our Finance Process strategy, by actively working with partners across British Airways to track process performance and drive continuous improvement.

What you’ll do:

• Define and maintain standardised financial processes, continuously assessing to improve efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness.
• Establish key performance indicators and metrics to measure process performance and regularly monitor performance to identify areas for improvement.
• Generate and present reports to senior management and the governance groups, highlighting achievements, challenges and proposed improvements, based on internal monitoring and external benchmarking.
• Develop and maintain documentation, manuals, and training materials as required.
• Partner with internal and external partners to effectively manage the project lifecycle to ensure delivery of desired outcome on a timely basis and within approved budget.

What you’ll bring to British Airways:

• Solid understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance standards in the finance domain.
• Proficiency in leveraging financial systems and technologies to streamline processes in financial controllership, planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distil complex technical information into clear simple messages.
• Strong project management skills and comfortable communicating ideas to senior leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and able to use data insights to drive effective decision making.

Your experience:

• Knowledge of financial master data structures and reporting.
• Experience in designing enterprise data management and reporting solutions is essential.
• Experience supporting a CFO/CTO function on data transformation is desirable.
• A qualification in a relevant field, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA would be advantageous.

What we offer: We believe that all the people who work with us should feel valued for the part they play. It’s one of the reasons our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary. From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family. At British Airways you’ll have the chance to take on new challenges and move forward in a way that feels right for you. We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities right across our business to help you develop and progress. We never stand still, and we don’t expect our people to either.

Inclusion & Diversity: At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work. Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.