Finance Analyst – Decision Support

Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.

What’s Travelport?

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We’re leading the change; we are the change.

We are on a mission to power the future of travel; come join us.

What does a great Finance Analyst – Decision Support do?

The Commercial Finance Analyst works hand in glove with the commercial teams managing relationships with EMEA based airlines and travel agencies. By supporting the Senior Finance Analyst, this individual will play a key role in delivering the strategy for the region by providing high quality and timely financial modelling and analysis to inform negotiations for new and renewal agreements. The role will influence and assist commercial decisions to drive incremental revenues and profits, provide detailed variance analysis, highlight opportunities for growth and formulate plans to mitigate risks.

Responsibilities include:

• Finance support for Key Account managers, providing high quality financial analysis on Travel Partners commercial deals
• Responsible for sign off on commercial deals with agreed DOA or gaining appropriate approvals, whilst ensuring compliance with Travelport financial operations processes.
• Provide Financial analysis and scrutiny on commercial deals from the Car, Hotel and Rail teams
• Review and enhance process for onboarding Non-Air Travel Partners contracts
• Provide ‘One’ finance voice across the commercial teams in analyzing and supporting commercial deals
• Ensure financial models and deals represent accurate information and reflect impact to Travelport’s financial position.
• Drive efficiencies in the deal approval process, to improve speed and quality of deal reviews and approvals
• Work closely with FP&A teams to ensure fully visibility of deals pipeline and that new deal/renewal impacts are reflected correctly in budgets/forecasts

Who we are looking for in this role:

• Studying Accountant (CIMA or ACCA or equivalent)
• Strong business acumen, able to make decisions that affect the Travelport business, and be prepared to be challenged on these decisions.
• Self-starter with initiative and the ability to communicate ideas effectively
• Good interpersonal skills, and an ability to tailor their approach to deal with different levels of management.
• PC literacy requiring strong experience in PowerPoint & Excel. Cognos & Oracle - benefit

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you’re likely to succeed if you:

• Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work
• Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things
• Take responsibility and own your work
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what’s been done before

These are just a few of our employee’s favourite benefits/perks…

Competitive base salary, annual bonus, private medical insurance, holiday allowance

Interested? We’d love for you to get in touch!*

*Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.