Senior Finance Business Partner (SG&A) in London

Vista is the world’s leading global business aviation company, providing worldwide business flight services through its network of subsidiaries and a team of over 4,000 experts. A global group headquartered in Dubai, Vista integrates a unique portfolio of companies to offer asset‑free services that cover all key aspects of business aviation, including guaranteed and on‑demand global flight coverage, subscription and membership solutions, and trading and management services.

A career at Vista means stepping into an environment where you’re trusted with real autonomy and responsibility from day one. Whether you’re keeping our aircraft airworthy, flying our clients across the globe, or working in one of our corporate teams, you’ll move fast, deliver impact quickly, and grow through hands‑on learning and close collaboration within a supportive global community. You’ll play an active role in shaping a transforming organization by improving processes, challenging norms, and driving meaningful change. And throughout, you’ll take pride in making the impossible possible for a worldwide client base.

Your Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the spending associated with VistaJet SG&A expenditure.
• Providing the SG&A Flash numbers with commentary in a timely manner.
• Supporting functional leaders in understanding their cost base and variances to budget through creation of value‑added results analysis and action‑focused outputs, identifying opportunities for cost reduction and finding solutions to mitigate risks.
• In conjunction with the Finance Leadership and FP&A teams, developing and producing budget monitoring reports for cost center owners, including monthly and quarterly information packages for consolidated group functional spend, forecasts and analysis of metrics.
• Facilitating the monthly budget monitoring meetings between cost center owners and their teams to develop a thorough understanding of their cost base.
• Reviewing processes underpinning key cost categories to identify potential areas of weaknesses that could be the basis for cost inefficiencies.
• Providing financial information, preparing and presenting analytics, analysis and insight to executives, challenging their thinking, helping them make more informed decisions, challenging current ways of working, driving efficiencies and cost savings wherever possible.
• Understanding the ‘bigger picture’ while contributing to procedural change, where required.
• Supporting the annual budgeting process for the Group functions.
• Understanding the rationale with which the annual budget has been produced and recommending approaches for improving the budget setting process for the forthcoming year.
• Ad‑hoc analysis, research, and reports.

Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience:

• Knowledge:
• 5+ years experience in Business Partnering.
• Strong Excel modelling – manipulating large datasets and presenting numbers in graphs, bridges and presentations.
• Familiar with finance systems – such as SAP, Netsuite and Softco.
• Ability to drive automated dashboards in systems like Tableau, PowerBI, or similar (not necessarily building themselves, but using the Tech team to automate reporting and build out dashboards for key business stakeholders).
• Experience in pulling together an SG&A Budget, working with key senior stakeholders across the business (including challenging cost numbers and producing insights).
• Experience in producing business cases, assessing ROI and monitoring performance of investments or projects.
• Soft Skills:
• Very Proactive – building relationships with key stakeholders, identifying cost efficiencies and process improvements – someone who is driven to add value and influence decisions.
• Ability to present financial information to non‑finance stakeholders – producing PowerPoint decks with visuals and linking to strategy / business initiatives.
• Dynamic: able to adapt in line with stakeholder / business needs.
• Storytelling – getting the key message across.