Finance Manager

OAG Aviation Worldwide; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Company bonus scheme

Enhanced pension scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Birthday day off

Salary sacrifice scheme (Octopus EV)

Learning & development budget

Job summary

OAG Aviation Worldwide is seeking a qualified finance professional to join the Commercial Finance team. You will own month-end P&L for designated areas, build and assess business cases with ROI analysis, and communicate performance to senior stakeholders, including the Board and C-Suite.

You’ll drive cost initiatives, manage long-term projects, and collaborate across NetSuite, Workday Adaptive and Clockify to deliver accurate financial data and value-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or part-qualified considered for right candidate.
• Significant experience in FP&A, finance analyst or management accounting roles.
• Solid knowledge of financial and management accounting and related disciplines.
• Strong month-end knowledge: accruals, prepayments and cost capitalization.
• Experience developing complex business cases with ROI/payback analysis or capex processes.
• Confident communicator with proven ability to present financial information to non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as the main finance contact for your area and explain P&L to senior leaders and C-Suite.
• Identify and lead cost initiatives to find sustainable savings.
• Develop and track complex business cases from ROI analysis to completion.
• Manage long-term, ambiguous projects from a finance perspective within budgets.
• Own month-end P&L, accruals and prepayments.
• Contribute to the monthly Board pack and support budgeting/forecasting cycles.
• Work with NetSuite, Workday Adaptive and Clockify to extract and present data.
• Escalate as a finance expert and drive process improvements across the team.

Skills

Strong communicator

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Presentation to exec

Education

ACA

ACCA

CIMA

Tools

NetSuite

Workday Adaptive

Clockify

Job description

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

OAG is the essential intelligence partner transforming global travel. For nearly a century we’ve been the foundation the travel industry builds on: trusted, proven, essential. Today, we’re going beyond.

We combine unmatched data quality, quantity and access with breakthrough technology and deep industry expertise to deliver what the industry truly needs: not just more data, but better answers. From real-time operational intelligence to strategic decision-making, we power the entire travel ecosystem, from airlines and airports to technology companies and financial institutions. And we’re embedding AI throughout our intelligence layer, pairing decades of proprietary data with the latest technology to deliver answers that weren’t possible before.

Travel moves the world, and we move travel. For more information visit www.oag.com

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This role sits within our Commercial Finance team, reporting to the Commercial Finance Director. It combines month end ownership of cost P&L lines with a forward looking, stakeholder facing remit: explaining performance to non-finance stakeholders, driving cost initiatives, and leading the business cases and longer term projects that ensure the division’s spend delivers value for money. You will also contribute to the monthly Board pack, giving you regular exposure to senior stakeholder reporting, right up to C-Suite level. The role regularly deals with complex, non-standard problems, and we want someone who will challenge and improve existing ways of working rather than simply apply them.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Act as the main finance point of contact for your business area, building strong working relationships with senior leaders and explaining P&L performance in clear, accessible terms for non-finance stakeholders, including C-Suite colleagues.

• Identify, shape and lead cost initiatives across the business area, challenging existing ways of working and taking a fresh perspective to find new, sustainable savings.

• Lead the development of complex business cases for investment, including ROI and payback analysis, and track approved cases through to completion.

• Manage longer term, often ambiguous projects from a finance perspective, resolving complex or non-standard issues and monitoring spend against approved budgets to ensure ongoing value for money.

• Own your designated P&L lines at month end, including preparation and review of accruals and prepayments.

• Own designated sections of the monthly Board pack, ensuring accuracy, clarity and timely delivery, and support the wider team’s budgeting and forecasting cycles.

• Work confidently across NetSuite, Workday Adaptive and Clockify to extract, reconcile and present financial data.

• Act as a technical point of escalation for less experienced finance colleagues, lead improvements to finance processes, and flex into other areas of the Finance team as priorities require.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA); part-qualified will be considered for the right candidate.

• Significant experience in a finance analyst, FP&A or management accounting role, ideally including exposure to a comparable cost base.

• In-depth knowledge of financial and management accounting, with a working understanding of related disciplines such as commercial finance and cost management.

• Good working knowledge of month-end processes, including accruals, prepayments and cost capitalisation.

• Demonstrated experience developing complex business cases, ROI/payback analysis or capital expenditure processes, ideally including redesigning or improving how these are done.

• A confident communicator with a proven track record presenting financial

IF YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING THAT WOULD BE GREAT:

• Exposure to software capitalisation or technology cost bases.

• A genuine interest in building deep, long-term expertise in this area of finance, whether as a long-term specialist home or as a platform for further progression.

If you don’t meet every requirement but feel excited about this role, we’d still love to hear from you.

WE WILL OFFER YOU:

You will proactively explore and adopt AI tools and automation in your day-to-day work, keeping the customer at the centre of everything you do. You will share learnings with your team and approach new technologies with curiosity and an open mind. At OAG, finding better ways to work and putting customers first is everyone’s responsibility.

Real responsibility on hard problems, with the autonomy to own decisions and act on them, in an open culture built on trust.

Flexible working arrangements that allow remote work or office attendance

An attractive compensation and benefits package, including private health insurance, a company bonus scheme and enhanced pension scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a day off during your birthday month

Octopus EV salary sacrifice scheme

Work remotely anywhere in the world for up to 1 month per year

Annual learning and development budget.

OAG is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and able to perform at their best.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know — we’re happy to have an open conversation about how we can support you.