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Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the world’s largest companies. Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities: Loyalty, Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance.

The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers, creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.

We have more than 25 years’ experience, with 28 global locations, servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries, employing 1,800 people.

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: Visa, 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 1,800 colleagues globally.

What does a Commercial Finance Manager Do:

The Commercial Finance Manager is a valued member of the Finance Team contributing to the strategic opportunities in the Travel Experiences division at a Global or Regional level. Examples of these may include:

• Proposition Pricing
• Sensitivity Analysis
• Market-Entry or “Power Up” Strategies
• Evaluation of Client Requests
• Global reporting, forecasting and budgeting
• Ad Hoc (solving for challenges, realising opportunities, regulatory issues, major client requests)

You will work closely with the Global Commercial Finance Team to drive forward key projects across the entire spectrum of the Travel Experiences division, collaborating with the Americas stakeholders to gather information, make recommendations, seek alignment to get them delivered and track results in a timely manner.

You will be leveraging globally available pricing and analysis tools or building innovative bespoke models that are flexible, automated and aligned to global commercial frameworks. Regular external (client) contact is also expected.

The Americas region encompasses the United States, Canada and Latin America countries.

What You'll Do:

• Financial modelling / business casing, competitive analysis, consumer research, legal or regulatory guidelines
• Clear project definition (scope, desired outputs, key stakeholders)
• Gather the essential information – facts and views – from key stakeholders and interrogate logically and rationally
• Develop recommendations, with clear rationale
• Present the output with a clear story, from current situation through to recommendation
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to align to a recommendation, and feed into the delivery process
• Support the Commercial and Marketing teams in framing problems and opportunities, or with commercial modelling, and the presentation of these both internally and externally
• Help define our future strategy
• Build, maintain and enhance relationships with other internal teams and external partnerships
• Detailed involvement on business planning quarterly and annually as well as monthly reporting

What You'll Need:

• Strategic mindset
• Problem-solving ability, using both creative and/or structured thinking as necessary
• Strong commercial modelling skills (including Excel)
• Collaborative, easy to work with
• A good communicator (use and awareness of verbal and non-verbal, presenting, PPT)
• Experience of forming hypotheses, delivering business cases and tying customer experience and client opportunities to business value
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, with changing priorities and demands
• Degree holder or equivalent, with at least 5 years relevant experience in Finance Analytics / FP&A
• Qualified with ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent would be a plus.

You can look forward to a competitive salary and benefit plan including but not limited to:

• 100% employer paid medical, dental, life & LTD insurance for employees
• 100% match to your 401k deferrals (limited) with 100% vesting at 6 months
• Supplemental Insurance including STD, additional Life
• Priority Pass Membership
• Global Mentoring Program
• Wellness Programs
• Lifestyle Benefits

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: Act smarter, 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 ushr@collinsongroup.com