Finance Planning Manager (Hybrid/Dublin)

About us:

Aer Lingus has a proud legacy of connecting people and places across Europe and North America. Many of you will be familiar with the warm welcome of our cabin crew, pilots and operations’ staff but what many of you might not know is how much Aer Lingus is now a technology company as well as an airline.

We have a rapidly growing technology team located both remotely throughout Ireland and beyond as well as in our hangar at the airport. Digital transformation is key to achieving that mission. We want to ensure that we provide the best value and service to customers, as well as ensuring that Aer Lingus is an enjoyable and innovative place to work.

We are excited by the opportunities that digital technologies offer us to achieve our mission, improve the way we work and help us to remain a much-loved Irish brand. We’ve only really begun to scratch the surface in terms of the opportunities offered by digital technologies but, even with this in mind, we’ve managed to achieve so much and created great results in the few years we’ve been driving this transformation. We’re very excited about the years ahead.

As a Tech Finance Planning Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to end finance operations within CDIO as well as planning the various Financial Planning tasks, such as Monthly Quarterly and Annual Financial Reviews

This dynamic role is vital to ensuring that the business continues to operate in an efficient and cost-effective manner and will support the overall success of the company. The management of all contractors spend within Tech and the overseeing of all our agency/partner relationships will be a key oversight of this role.

The Tech Finance Planning Manager will also be tasked with identifying and implementing process efficiencies, overseeing the signing off and authorising on spend within the department and liaising with key stakeholders in IAG and our finance business partners in order to ensure control of Aer Lingus Tech budget.

This role will operate on a hybrid model, with 2 days working in the office and 3 days from home. Please note that these roles do not qualify for sponsorship for non -EU citizens/work permit holders. You must have full working and VISA right in Ireland or the EU to be eligible to apply.

 

Your role:

 

·       Overseeing end-to-end finance operations within CDIO, financial planning and analysis, looking to make improvements to procedures and controls, as well as ad-hoc projects and requests as and when they come up.

·       Leading and coaching the EI Tech Finance team and supporting Technology Business Manager as required and agreed.

·       Overseeing the signing off and authorising of all contractors spend, IAG & EI purchase requisitions raised, and software licence requests.

·       Control of spend of all onshore/offshore resources within Tech ensuring 32 agencies/partners are paid within terms and producing monthly contractor accruals for finance enabling the re-charging of costs to projects.

·       Overseeing the Analysing and approving IAG purchase requisitions that go to CDIO for authorisation. Managing the IAG re-charge invoicing per month and investigating any discrepancies and escalating with IAG management.

·       Overseeing the planning and forecasting activities throughout the financial year with finance business partners ensuring accuracy of budgets and maintaining control of spend.

·       Overseeing the reviewing of weekly payment file for all payments in CDIO to be included in the weekly payment run.

·       Overseeing the collaboration with IAG Group and EI Tech departments in line with business objectives to understand their financial requirements, forecast IT expenses, and establish budgetary guidelines.

·       Monitor IT spending, analyse cost variances, and provide recommendations for optimising costs and resource allocation.

·       Liaising with IAG Tower Leads ensuring that software renewals are in place and in line with budgets.

·       Identifying new cost-efficient ways of working focusing on payment solutions whilst further driving down costs.     

·       Providing financial reports and interpreting financial information to managerial staff while recommending further courses of action.

·       Reviewing, monitoring, and managing budgets.

·       Identify, track and support cost reduction initiatives and work with functional management to identify and implement synergies.

·       Producing financial reports related to budgets, account payables, account receivables, expenses etc. 

 

Key Experience/Qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in business, finance, or accounting with a minimum of 5 + years of financial experience in industry, operations analysis, OpEx analyst or similar.
• Exceptional knowledge of Microsoft Office suite of software applications (including PowerBi) combined with general proficiency in IT systems. Good working knowledge of Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence and Tempo) is mandatory.
• Experience with reporting tools such as Power BI
• Focused attitude to work, with the ability to constantly meet deadlines while ensuring excellent attention to detail & high levels of accuracy.
• A focus on continuous improvement in area of responsibility
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, to include proven report writing & presentation skills.
• A solid understanding of financial statistics and accounting principles
• Ability to synthesize large quantities of complex financial data into actionable information.
• Excellent business judgment, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to identify and implement new process changes in order to drive efficiencies across the business and generate cost savings.
• Proven knowledge of financial analysis and strategy.
• Ability to work and effectively communicate with senior-level business partners.

 

What we offer:

• Comprehensive staff travel perks
• Remote/hybrid working options
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Annual performance related bonus
• Free staff parking when onsite for work
• Collaborative, innovative, friendly, team based working environment

 

 

 

 

 

AER LINGUS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

What we offer:

• Comprehensive staff travel perks
• Remote/hybrid working options
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Annual performance related bonus
• Parking available when onsite
• Collaborative, innovative, friendly, team based working environment

AER LINGUS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER