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About the Role

This role offers the opportunity to significantly transform finance operations at IAG Loyalty. You will play a pivotal role in a team undergoing an exciting transformation, combining technical accounting expertise with a passion for process improvement, strengthening controls, and building a future-ready finance function. You will own a significant business area, collaborating across reporting, controls, audit, and stakeholder management, while also challenging existing workflows to create a more efficient and scalable finance operation. This is a role where you can make a genuine impact from day one and shape the team's operations as the business grows.

Responsibilities

• Lead finance transformation initiatives, continuously improving processes, controls, and SAP configuration to reduce manual effort and improve efficiency.
• Partner with Commercial Finance, IAG Group operating companies, Air Partners, and colleagues across IAG Loyalty to resolve reporting issues and support business change.
• Assess the accounting implications of new commercial propositions, preparing clear accounting papers and recommendations.
• Take ownership of financial reporting, controls, and month-end activities for your area, ensuring accurate, timely, and high-quality financial information.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations, journals, and financial reporting outputs, ensuring robust financial control.
• Lead internal and external audit activity for your portfolio, providing timely, high-quality responses.
• Prepare cash flow forecasts to support foreign exchange hedging activity.
• Improve quarterly reporting processes, reducing manual effort while maintaining high standards of accuracy and governance.
• Support and collaborate with other members of the Loyalty Financial Reporting team, sharing knowledge and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA) with relevant post-qualified experience.
• Proven track record of improving finance processes and controls, demonstrating increased efficiency and scalability.
• Enjoy understanding how things work, asking questions, and challenging the status quo.
• Strong financial reporting and financial control experience, including reconciliations, journals, month-end close, and balance sheet management.
• Ability to balance strong technical accounting judgment with commercial pragmatism.
• Experience managing internal and external audits, providing robust evidence and building positive relationships with auditors.
• Confident in building relationships across Finance and the wider business, communicating clearly with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to absorb complex information quickly and take ownership of your area with confidence.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, evolving environment where priorities can change.
• Curious, embraces change, and is motivated by continuously improving processes.
• Willingness to help each other succeed in a high-performing team environment.

Skills

• Technical accounting expertise
• Process improvement
• Financial reporting
• Financial control
• SAP configuration
• Stakeholder management
• Audit management
• Cash flow forecasting
• Foreign exchange hedging
• Commercial pragmatism
• Relationship building
• Clear communication

Location

• London office
• Other office or partner locations

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Remote
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Post-qualified experience

Education Level

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)

About the Company

• IAG Loyalty is one organisation with two ambitious, growing divisions: Loyalty and Holidays.
• Our shared vision is to create a more rewarding world of travel and experiences.
• The Loyalty division includes Avios, the global loyalty currency.
• The Holidays division includes British Airways Holidays and Iberia Vacaciones.
• We are on an exciting journey of growth and transformation.
• Our Finance function is committed to continuous improvement, innovation, and integrity.
• The department operates at the heart of IAG Loyalty, providing financial reporting, control, insight, and governance.
• We boast two ambitious and growing divisions in Loyalty and Holidays, and together we create a more rewarding world of travel and experiences.
• Through Avios, our global loyalty currency, we help millions of members turn everyday spend into travel, retail and financial service rewards.
• Through our Holidays division, including British Airways Holidays and Iberia Vacaciones, we connect customers to thousands of destinations worldwide with seamless, end-to-end travel experiences.
• It’s all made possible by our teams, bringing together data, expertise and innovation to power unforgettable journeys and experiences.
• We offer a one-of-a-kind culture where a love of travel connects us all.
• We are a business that's going places, and careers that are, too.
• Our vision is to create a more rewarding world of travel and experiences.
• Our values outline how we show up when we're firing on all cylinders.

Equal Opportunity

• Our vision is to create a more rewarding world of travel and experiences. Delivering that requires diverse thinking and inclusive leadership.
• We are committed to building a workplace where people feel they belong and are valued for their perspective.
• Inclusion drives better decisions, stronger performance and more innovative outcomes.
• We actively encourage applications from people with different experiences and backgrounds, and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is fair, inclusive and accessible.