Job Details

What You’ll Do 

The Financial Analyst works with client management teams to provide a global consolidated view of financials and to handle the significant complexity of the required uplift fees and provide analysis and trends on how the uplift fees are tracking against client costs for the centralized DOE team.  To this end, they collaborate with all proprietary countries, travel partner networks (TPNs) and joint ventures (JVs) to collect, classify, review and analyze different data sources to produce a standardized report for the client on the agreed basis of frequency for example monthly.  

• Global consolidation ensuring one single point of contact
• Consistency and expertise across multiple settlement systems
• Key contact liaising with all regions (EMEIA/APAC/NORAM)
• Handling complex transaction fee uplift reconciliation; includes data migration, reporting functionality, invoices per country
• Timely processing of the quarterly reconciliation by individual country
• Client facing support on a quarterly call to review the trends, anomalies, questions, adjustments
• Potential trending & visualization globally
• Fully support direct line to Financial department avoiding “middle man” experience
• Applying a lower cost market to assist with overall global new structure financials

Reporting :

• Act as primary point of contact for the assigned client portfolio whilst partnering with all key SMEs across multiple countries and regions.
• Prepare periodic reporting on overall cost of travel program.
• Partner with senior leadership to define the strategy for Billing and Settlements.
• Ensure contractual terms are adhered to, such as transaction fee charged is in line with contract.
• Ad-hoc support on client query and audit requirement.

Billing :

• Reviewing client contracts and profile to ensure the fees are set up correctly in any billing systems
• Perform quality control checks on settlements and invoices
• Provide support and assist in projects related to financial analysis, accounting, systems and processes
• This role may require the candidate to liaise with clients and key contacts as required

What We're Looking For

• Graduate with proven experience of 5 years in a similar role
• Excellent communication skills required, both written and oral as this role requires influencing and demonstrating ability across multiple business divisions and customers
• Advanced knowledge on Excel
• Analytical and process oriented, with the ability to think strategically about the business
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Positive and motivated, ability to work independently but part of a global team
• Fluent in English (mandatory)
• Knowledge of travel industry and/or travel industry economics a bonus