Senior FP&A Analyst

Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500\+ lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception – from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2,200 global colleagues.

Purpose of the job

As a Senior FP\&A Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting the Group FP\&A team through the delivery of financial planning, monthly reporting, and ad hoc analysis. The role contributes to accurate forecasting, insightful performance analysis, and data-driven decision-making across the Group functions. This position requires strong analytical skills, financial modelling proficiency, and the ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders.

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.

Qualifications \& Experience

· 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