Finance Business Partner Analyst

Travel. It's one of life's simple pleasures. But, ooof, planning it can feel like hard work. For the last 20 years we've been on a mission to empower every traveller with innovative tools, insights and experiences that help people get to where they're going, so they can spend more time out exploring the world, and less time anxiously bouncing around 25 browser tabs and endless spreadsheets. Our traveller-first approach drives everything we do and it's never been more important than it is today.

When we launched as a flight comparison site back in 2003, we changed the game by helping travellers feel smart, like they were in on a secret, that promise hasn't changed. And today, while we're a world leader in travel, with millions of people using our products every single day we know there's so much more we can be doing.

Being part of Skyscanner means joining a team hell bent on building the world's most innovative, and helpful travel experiences possible. We're hugely ambitious and believe we have the chance to genuinely challenge and disrupt the industry.

As a Finance Business Partner (FBP) Analyst supporting Sustainable Revenue, you will be responsible for reporting, providing insights and supporting our FBP team with decision support, reporting to our Sustainable Revenue FBP. This role is an Individual Contributor role and you will work closely with the FBP team and the Sustainable Revenue teams to drive performance through the reporting of financial information & insights.

What are the responsibilities for this role?

• Prepare recurring business reporting for senior stakeholders
• Assist with scoping out revenue creation projects including business cases and investment decisions
• Identify and lead process improvement, including standardisation
• Take the lead on well-defined problems to drive growth throughout the business
• Analysis of business data to offer fresh and actionable insights that will help drive business-wide decisions
• Supporting the preparation of financial information for a key business activity
• Supporting with ad-hoc analysis
• This role provides an excellent opportunity to partner closely with the business teams and gain exposure to the full breadth of operational activities undertaken by Skyscanner.

What experience will you bring to the team?

• Forecast modelling skills with experience of scenario modelling
• logical and problem-solving skills
• Eagerness to learn and understand the business needs
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience of data visualisation skills and data driven: analytical mindset and approach to breaking down problems and identifying opportunities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex topics into a clear story with recommendations
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills
• An understanding of Commercial within a tech business advantageous

What qualifications are required?

• Qualified accountant or qualified by experience 
• Min 3 years experiience in a similar role 
• You have a good understanding of numbers, as well as a strong business sense
• Proactive, self-confident individual with high levels of curiosity, a growth mindset and a positive approach towards problem solving.
• Be willing to engage and building strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders and have the ability to explain complex topics in simple terms
• Relevant finance/corporate finance experience is advantageous
• Previous experience in financial modelling and data visualisation experience (Excellent logical, analytical and conceptual skills and tools). 
• Ability to distil and synthesis of information.
• Very comfortable with ambiguity and excels at bringing structure and clarity in that setting
• Highly proficient in all standard business tools including Excel & PowerPoint