Analyst – Strategic Finance and Modelling

Job Description:

Salary: Competitive

Hours: Full Time (9am – 5.30pm)

Location: Crawley VHQ, 3 days on site per week

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 21st April 2025

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and its our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, were harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.

As a Finance Analyst in our Strategic Finance team, you will be responsible for the production, maintenance and communication of long-term strategic financial modelling. This covers P&L, capital and cash flow forecasting and associated sensitivity analysis.

You will also support financial appraisals and provide insightful analysis, facilitating strategic decision making in areas such as capital structure, potential partnerships, fleet strategy, investments and deep dives into different areas of the business. With this, you will be a trusted advisor and facilitator of productive business & financial conversations. You will report to the Strategic Finance Manager and support the wider Financial Planning and Strategic Finance teams.

This is a pivotal role and provides a great platform and grounding to really progress your career at Virgin Atlantic.

Day to day

Some of your key responsibilities as our Finance Analyst will be:

Owning and developing central long-term three statement (P&L, capital and cash flow) models and associated sensitivity models. Managing all inputs and stakeholders that feed into this process
Driving financial success through regular model updates and improvements, and providing forward-looking advice to the Leadership Team
Working closely with the Leadership Team and Corporate Development to formulate the Companys medium to long-term financial and strategic plans
Working closely with the wider Strategic Finance and Financial Planning teams to facilitate decision-making in areas such as capital structure, potential partnerships, fleet strategy, investments and deep dives into different areas of the business
Assembling and producing regular reporting and analysis, developing insights from past performance and offering detailed insight into forecasts showing risks and opportunities
Communicating insights effectively to a range of internal and external stakeholders
Working with the wider Finance team to improve processes and finance efficiency and bring about a well-controlled environment

About you

Are you an effective communicator, with a passion for financial modelling?

In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:

Desirable if you are either qualified or actively studying, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar (such as CFA)
Expertise in using Microsoft Excel and other software tools to develop and produce high quality financial models. Such models will be capable of gathering financial and non-financial data to identify problems or answer questions, and deliver robust, structured solutions that integrate with existing models and/or generate practical financial recommendations
Comfortable analysing data, using a multitude of formulas and other key functionality to review, interpret and summarise key messages. Once analysis performed, confident presenting it in a format that highlights key findings, actions, and recommendations
Capable of using Microsoft PowerPoint and other reporting tools to produce slides, reports and decks that can share important financial messages
Experience of partnering with financial and business stakeholders, possessing the inter-personal skills to build a network of contacts that will be both the input and recipient of key financial outputs from the Financial Planning team
Proven ability to work at a fast pace, capable of working simultaneously on more than one task
Desirable but not essential is system-based experience with TM1, and data visualisation tools such as Power BI and Tableau
Desirable but not essential previous experience in industry within a Corporate Forecasting / Corporate Finance setting or in practice within Transaction Services
Evidence of personally driving business improvement through financial analysis /process improvement

If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!

Our recipe for leadership

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Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitmentfly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

Job Ident #: 2694

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main hub at London–Heathrow, and its secondary hub at Manchester

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Job Info

Location

Crawley , England, United Kingdom

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en