Overview
People. Passion. Pride. This is what has driven our teams since 1833.
Since that time, we have developed to become a critical partner in the global aviation industry, delivering time-critical logistics services at over 290 locations in 65 countries, across 6 continents.
But at the heart of our business is our people.
Role Purpose
Menzies Aviation is in growth mode, focused on increasing our footprint in the Aviation Services market. The Head of FP&A plays a crucial role in supporting the CFO and helping the organisation effectively manage their finances, make informed decisions and achieve strategic objectives. The role will best suit someone that is a collegiate team player, enjoys being part of a growth journey, commercial, strategic and ambitious.
What You Will Be Doing
- Lead the development of the company's long-term financial strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and market opportunities.
- Serve as a strategic partner to the executive team, providing data-driven insights and recommendations to support key business decisions. Establish the FP&A team as a trusted advisor to the business, building strong decision-making support and ad hoc analysis capability.
- Drive the annual budgeting process, long-term planning, and forecasting activities including cash flow forecasting across the group.
- Ownership of our long-term planning financial strategic plan including tracking against the plan during planning and forecasting cycles.
- Oversee and scrutiny the of monthly, quarterly, annual financial and other ad-hoc reports for executive leadership, shareholder and other stakeholders as appropriate.
- Analyse financial performance against forecasts and budgets, identifying trends, risks, opportunities as well as corrective actions.
Would you like to see more detail on the accountabilities of the role? Please see the attached job description for further information.
Safety, Security, WellBeing and Compliance:
You will have a responsibility and duty whilst at work to take reasonable care of the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself and others in accordance with provided information, training, and workplace health and safety rules or procedures. The company is committed to providing a safe working environment for all staff members. In all areas of our business there is a potential risk to the health, safety and welfare to everyone on our sites through the misuse of alcohol and drugs. As such the Company prohibits such misuse and carries out regular testing to enforce our Substance Misuse Policy.
Please see the attached job description for further details on safety, security, wellbeing & compliance.
What We Are Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or professional finance qualification preferred.
- A minimum of 10-15 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role, preferably in a global or multi-business unit environment.
- Self-driven with hunger to drive improvement and financial results.
- Ability to both work strategically long term and at the same time have detailed insight in operational and financial performance to support the teams across the Group.
- High emotional intelligence and good relationship builder comfortable working across the Group with both senior executives and operational teams.
- Strong experience in financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management.
- Experience in investor relationship management or private equity.
Diversity
Menzies Aviation are a committed equal opportunity employer and encourage applications for suitably qualified and eligible applicants regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, and maternity. We strive to create an inclusive working environment, where the different knowledge, perspectives, experiences, and approaches of our global workforce are represented. Where everyone feels valued and can reach their full potential.
Please be aware that as part of our recruitment process, we may look to use a variety of resourcing tools to help us understand your skills and experience in relation to the role. Please feel free to contact to recruiter below, if there are any reasonable adjustments to our process that you would like us to consider.
As part of our recruitment process, we will always consider how candidates fit with our values which you can learn more about here.
Application Instructions
Is this role ticking all the boxes for you? If so, please click apply now!
Need more detail? Feel free to contact ashley.clark@menziesaviation.com for further information.