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About the Role

As a Procurement Finance Business Partner, you will drive financial excellence by analyzing supplier cost performance to identify key trends and savings opportunities across International Airlines Group (IAG). You will collaborate with procurement and finance teams to track savings, manage risks, and reconcile P&L impacts. This role is pivotal in financial planning, including forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning, while establishing reporting frameworks for the IAG Management Committee. You will also evaluate and model business cases for new activities, challenging stakeholders and providing recommendations.

Responsibilities

Analyze Supplier Cost performance across IAG at the most granular level, identifying trends and key movements.
Collaborate with Procurement teams in IAG Transform to understand the status of savings, initiatives, and delivery risks.
Liaise with OpCo finance teams to reconcile the P&L impact of initiatives, align supplier cost reporting to IAG MC, and understand/analyze future risks to the cost base.
Play a key role in the financial planning process and the delivery of Supplier Cost savings across IAG and within Procurement, including forecasting, budgeting, and the strategic five-year plan.
Build strong working relationships with teams, understand their short-term and long-term objectives, and act as a business partner, assessing financial impacts and challenging where appropriate.
Evaluate business cases for extended scope/new activities, provide financial support with financial modeling, and challenge/provide recommendations.

Requirements

Delivery of Supplier Cost savings and targets from the procurement team.
Robust reporting framework to provide granularity and insight to IAG MC on a monthly basis.
Performance and delivery of Procurement Supplier Cost initiatives vs. targets.
Take an active role in the wider Finance Team; promote best practice and support continuous improvement.
Management Committee Directors & their Leadership Teams.
Other IAG Transform Finance Business Partners.
OpCo Finance Teams.
5+ years Financial evaluation, influencing, decision making, business acumen.
Hands-on experience with spend analysis, cost transparency or procurement-related analytics.
The ability to build excellent working relationships across multiple teams and locations.
Strong communication skills.
Confidence in challenging senior stakeholders when appropriate.
Excellent Excel skills and attention to detail.
Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team, as circumstances require.
Business Partnering experience (even if gained outside of a business partnering role).
Previous exposure to business cases would be beneficial.
Knowledge of Finance Operations (P2P, RTR, OTC etc.) would be an advantage.

Skills

Financial evaluation
Influencing
Decision making
Business acumen
Spend analysis
Cost transparency
Procurement-related analytics
Building working relationships
Communication skills
Challenging senior stakeholders
Excel skills
Attention to detail
Autonomous work
Teamwork
Business Partnering
Financial modeling

Location

London, UK
Dublin
Madrid
Barcelona
Kraków

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years

Education Level

University degree in Finance, Economics or equivalent
Minimum Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Benefits

Health insurance
Pension
Performance bonuses

About the Company

IAG Transform provides creative and innovative solutions to drive sustainable transformation by delivering procurement and airline services, as well as group-wide systems across IAG.
IAG is one of the world’s largest airline groups with 600+ aircraft carrying more than 122 million customers to 260 destinations across 91 countries each year.
IAG brings together leading airline brands Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level, Vueling.
IAG Loyalty spans all its airlines and beyond, offering the global currency Avios and including BA Holidays.
IAG Cargo delivers vital goods and produce around the world.
As the first airline group globally to commit to net zero by 2050, sustainability is a core part of IAG’s strategy.
IAG Transform plays a critical role in driving transformation across IAG and the aviation industry, through expertise and capabilities in procurement, technology, AI, innovation, and transformation.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunities employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.