Senior FP&A Analyst in London

Collinson is a global loyalty and benefits company. We use our expertise and products to craft customer experiences which enable some of the world's best-known brands to acquire, engage and retain the most demanding and choice-rich customers. In particular, our unique expertise and insight into high earning, frequent travellers allows 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 specialising 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' experience working with these kinds of household names in over 170 countries, and help our clients to deliver the smarter experiences it takes to differentiate their propositions, and help them win deeper devotion with their customers.

Collinson is a privately-owned entrepreneurial business with about 1800 passionate people working in 17 locations worldwide. 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 brand's reward programmes and loyalty initiatives.

Purpose of the job

The Senior FP&A Analyst will play a key role in supporting the Senior Finance Business Partner and a range of business stakeholders by delivering high-quality financial planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis for one or more Business Services or Group functions. The role focuses on owning core FP&A processes, providing robust financial insight, and challenging assumptions during planning and performance cycles to support effective decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning/Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Support the delivery of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and multi-year plans, for the assigned functions, including Group allocation calculations.
  • Own detailed cost and resource models, ensuring assumptions are robust, consistent and well understood.
  • Challenge inputs and assumptions during planning cycles, partnering closely with the Senior Finance Business Partner.
  • Support development of planning guidance, templates and standardised assumptions.
• Performance Reporting & Insight
  • Prepare timely and accurate monthly reporting with clear variance analysis and insight.
  • Analyse key performance drivers and translate financial outcomes into clear, decision-relevant insight.
  • Track delivery against budgets, savings initiatives and approved investment cases.
  • Support preparation of materials for senior management, governance and decision-making forums.
• Decision Support & Analytical Insight
  • Provide analytical support for transformation initiatives, cost optimisation and productivity improvements.
  • Support development and review of business cases, including scenario and sensitivity analysis.
  • Respond to ad hoc analysis requests from the Senior Finance Business Partner, Group FP&A leadership, and other key stakeholders.
• Systems, Data & Continuous Improvement
  • Drive improvements in FP&A processes, leveraging automation and modern planning and reporting tools.
  • Work with the Finance Analytics team to develop dashboards and visualisations to improve transparency and insight.
  • Champion data quality, consistency and standard definitions across supported functions.
  • Contribute to the ongoing evolution of a scalable, modern Group FP&A capability.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Typically 3–6 years' experience in FP&A, commercial finance or analytical finance roles.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
• Exposure to modern FP&A and analytics tools (e.g. Anaplan, Adaptive, Oracle, OneStream, Power BI, Tableau).

Key Skills & Attributes

• Strong analytical and financial modelling capability with high attention to detail.
• Commercially curious and comfortable constructively challenging assumptions.
• Able to communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Well organised, resilient and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Mindset aligned to continuous improvement and modern FP&A best practice.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, 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: Take Action, 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.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc). If you need any extra support throughout the interview process, then please email us at ukrecruitment@collinsongroup.com.