Head of Commercial Finance, Americas

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, Easy Jet, 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.

This role will provide end-to-end finance business partnering support to senior management across several functions both internally and externally with our clients in Americas. The Head of Commercial Finance Americas is a key role in working alongside regional and global commercial teams influencing strategic and operational decision making and providing insights that drive better business performance and grow value for the company.

This role will be responsible for:

• Will lead in engaging, partnering and building relationships with the Americas Commercial team (Commercial SVP, Market Directors, Business Development and Account Management)
• Providing value-added financial insight and support, driving continuous improvement in business performance.
• Provide constructive challenges back by financial models with varied sensitivity analyses towards business plans, client deals and forecasts, proactively identifying risks and opportunities, whilst supporting functional leads to find solutions.
• Provide and present clear advice on financial management, due diligence and strategy to ensure informed decisions can be made.
• Demonstrate leadership and influencing of senior management throughout.
• Work with operational finance to deliver insight through continuous improvements in planning, reporting and detailed performance analysis.
• Working with functional leads and Group FP&A to agree financials forecasts and plans and provide robust explanation to senior finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Collaborating with other finance business partners and finance teams across Collinson to build a finance community that delivers effective and value-added support to the business.
• Providing effective challenge on spend and costs to ensure Collinson maximizes return on investment, creates value for money and eliminates waste.
• Fully engaged in new client opportunities or existing client renewals to ensure best outcome for Collinson.
• Lead role in supporting Americas requirements as we transition Collinson Finance systems and grow the Americas proposition particularly in Latin America.
• Supporting various business initiatives and projects as required.
• Providing ad-hoc analytical support to as required.

• Monthly business and executive reporting
• Budgeting, forecasting and business planning process
• Internal analysis and cost management (including recharges)
• Business analysis and decision support leveraging…