Finance Manager, Carbon Reporting

Skyscanner; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Finance Manager focused on Carbon Reporting, where you'll play a pivotal role in the sustainability journey. This position involves collaborating with finance and sustainability teams to develop reporting tools, manage budgets, and ensure compliance with international standards. Your expertise will help shape the future of travel by supporting innovative sustainability initiatives and achieving ambitious Net Zero goals. Embrace the opportunity to work in a diverse environment, where your contributions will have a meaningful impact on the travel industry and the planet.

Qualifications

• Qualified in ACCA, CA, CIMA, or ICAS with relevant financial experience.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to achieve Net Zero goals and manage sustainability budgets.
• Develop financial models and reports to support sustainability decisions.

Skills

Financial modeling

Sustainability reporting

Analytical skills

Relationship management

Excel proficiency

PowerPoint proficiency

Carbon management knowledge

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Commercial awareness

Education

ACCA

CA

CIMA

ICAS

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Travel. It's one of life's simple pleasures. But, ooof, planning it can feel like hard work. For the last 20 years we've been on a mission to empower every traveller with innovative tools, insights and experiences that help people get to where they're going, so they can spend more time out exploring the world, and less time anxiously bouncing around 25 browser tabs and endless spreadsheets. Our traveller-first approach drives everything we do and it's never been more important than it is today.

When we launched as a flight comparison site back in 2003, we changed the game by helping travellers feel smart, like they were in on a secret, that promise hasn't changed. And today, while we're a world leader in travel, with millions of people using our products every single day we know there's so much more we can be doing.

Being part of Skyscanner means joining a team hell bent on building the world's most innovative, and helpful travel experiences possible. We're hugely ambitious and believe we have the chance to genuinely challenge and disrupt the industry.

As a Finance Manager, Carbon Reporting, you will play a crucial role in our sustainability journey, working alongside our world-class Sustainability and Finance teams. This is an ambitious role where your contributions will be vital in crafting our future and ensuring our sustainability commitments are met flawlessly.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate across Sustainability and Finance teams to ensure we stay on track to reach our Net Zero goals.
• Develop and automate our Sustainability reporting and forecasts, including carbon footprint measurement, GHG protocol requirements, and SBTi metrics.
• Manage Sustainability forecasts and budgets, ensuring alignment with our external Net Zero commitments.
• Generate financial models and insights to support sustainability-related decision-making and assess climate-related risks and opportunities for the business.
• Contribute to materiality assessments and manage metrics to guide decision-making and align our vision with operational measurements.
• Support trade-off decisions across spending and returns, contributing to Skyscanner's Sustainability strategy on carbon offsetting and corporate travel policy.
• Coordinate the budget and forecasting process for Sustainability, incorporating carbon accounting to strategize asset depreciation and departmental carbon budgets.
• Report on performance versus budget/forecast and integrate sustainability modeling into financial statements and planning processes.
• Establish weekly/monthly review processes to monitor the performance of key business units against departmental carbon budgets.
• Develop connections with essential partners, challenge and influence priority areas to improve impact.
• Stay updated on relevant legislation and standard methodologies to ensure compliance with international regulatory reporting obligations for Sustainability (SECR, ESOS, CRFD, and CSRD), in collaboration with Legal.
• Support the business in achieving our sustainability traveller goals.

Skills and Qualifications

• Qualified (ACCA, CA, CIMA, or ICAS) or relevant financial experience.
• Previous experience in Finance Business Partnering/financial modeling is preferable but not necessary.
• Outstanding ability to distill and synthesize information.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, excelling in bringing clarity and structure.
• Proven experience in building and managing strong collaborator relationships.
• Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.
• A committed and productive approach.
• Previous experience or knowledge of carbon management and sustainability reporting (SBTi, GHG Protocol, SECR, ESOS, CRFD)
• Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to problem-solving and opportunity identification.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to convey complex topics clearly and provide actionable recommendations.
• Commercial awareness with an understanding of business models and key performance drivers.

This role presents an outstanding chance to work closely with diverse business teams, experiencing a wide range of operational activities. Your expertise will be essential in achieving Skyscanner's sustainability goals.

You'll join a brilliantly diverse group from all corners of the world. After all, travel is about finding new perspectives and experiencing new people and cultures - and Skyscanner is strongest when our teams are both inclusive and diverse.

Skyscanner is an equal opportunities employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination based on protected characteristics such as age, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, political views, sexual orientation, sex, gender (whether identity, reassignment, or expression), pregnancy or maternity, marital status, disability or any other category protected by law.

We are committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes are inclusive and accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations, please let our recruitment team know.