Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (For independent contractors)

Please note, this is a 9-month assignment for freelancers.

The pay rate is 100-150 EUR/hour.

The purpose of FP&A is to provide ‘Decision Making Information’ to the right person at the right time - whether this be for big strategic decisions via business cases or tactical in day-to-day steering through performance reporting & transparency. FP&A’s stakeholders are Director level above with Operational Support being handled with embedded teams throughout the organisation.

This role leads a team of business controllers and/or financial analysts focusing on a single business unit, e.g. Accommodations, Transport Business Unit, New Businesses like Attractions or Acquisitions like Fareharbor. By ensuring transparency of performance metrics the team will help steer the Business Unit on both tactical day-to-day matters; support strategy making by providing deep scenario analysis/modeling and translating the strategy into a tangible Business Plan. This role could lead a team as part of corporate FP&A, setting the cadence and managing centrally driven processes such as Budget and Guidance.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Working with your department(s) (e.g. Accommodation, Payments, Transport Business Unit, Fareharbor and future subsidiaries or FP&A as whole for the more central roles) to prepare targets, budgets and consolidate them into one overall yearly/quarterly targets/ budget

  
  

• Set the cadence for Budget, 3 years plan and guidance cycles between the various central and decentralised FP&A team and the business

  
  

• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of the department’s year/3year plan

  
  

• Examining and evaluating the cost-efficiency of the department, in light of what percentage of the company’s financial resources each department consumes and its impact on the bottom-line

  
  

• Preparing internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making to ensure they are making the best use of the company’s working capital, by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other scenarios that utilize our cash

  
  

• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward with regards to its operating model and partner distribution strategy

  
  

• Improving and ensuring data governance/integrity on key metrics

  
  

• Preparing internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making

  
  

• Determining which distribution product/channels combination in which regions generate the biggest "net contribution”

  
  

• Collaborating with FP&A colleagues on company wide financial models and detailed forecasts of the company’s year/3year plan

  
  

• Process documentation: Ensure FP&A controls are performed, monitored, and documentation stored