Finance Manager - dnata FP&A

Job Purpose

Finance Manager

Experience

In This Role, You Will

• Act as a trusted advisor to the dnata Airport Operations business, providing both support and challenge to enable informed decisions and improved outcomes.
• Lead the delivery of annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and mid‑ to long‑term plans, actively holding the business to account for performance against agreed targets.
• Provide financial insight and commercial judgement in the development and validation of business cases supporting new ventures, capital investments, and long‑term commercial agreements, particularly within high‑complexity and growth‑driven initiatives.
• Ensure business performance is actively monitored through robust management reporting, KPIs, and performance forums, identifying key trends, risks, and opportunities and driving agreed actions to improve future performance.
• Enable enhanced focus on translating complex financial and operational data into clear, compelling management narratives and actionable insights for senior leadership, enabling confident and timely decision‑making. While data and analytics tools, including Power BI, will support this role, the emphasis is on insight generation and decision support rather than reporting production.
• Ensure a strong financial control environment is maintained to protect shareholder interests and that Corporate Governance Manuals are consistently applied across the portfolio.
• Lead and develop finance capability across the defined business portfolio, regardless of reporting line, building a high‑performing FP&A team able to support ongoing transformation, expansion, and increasing operational complexity.

Qualification

• In order to be considered for this position, you must meet the below requirements:
• Have a minimum of 8 years of experience within Finance.
• Be a degree holder and hold a relevant professional qualification i.e., MBA or Qualified Accountant.
• Hold relevant experience in Finance, Commercial or Analytical roles including a minimum of 3+ years experience in an FP&A function with a proven history of delivering real value add FP&A support to a business in a dynamic and challenging business environment.

You'll Have An Edge If You Have

• Proven history of delivering real value add FP&A support to a business.
• Experience providing FP&A support in a dynamic and challenging business environment.
• Demonstrable experience in providing FP&A support through a period of significant business change.
• The ability to work with the business and a range of stakeholder providing solid advice and building partnerships.
• The ability to identify the right data to be translated into powerful stories through PowerBI.
• Join our team of over 100,000 people and follow your passions into one of over 50 brands in the Emirates Group.
• We’re led by our world-famous airline, Emirates, and our global air services provider, dnata.
• All our leading brands - in travel, tourism, leisure, aviation, sport and retail - reflect our passion for innovation.
• We strive for exceptionally high standards in all the products and services we offer and we’ve built an admired global reputation because of it.
• Work with us to build exciting brands and progress your career in the Emirates Group.

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