Manager Business Finance

Overview

WELCOME TO SITA

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At SITA, we keep airports moving, airlines flying smoothly, and borders open. Our technology and communication innovations power the success of the global air travel industry.

You'll find us in 95% of international airports, working closely with over 2,500 transportation and government clients. Each partnership brings unique challenges, and we thrive on delivering fresh solutions and cutting-edge tech to keep operations running like clockwork. We don't just move the world forward-we're proud to be recognized as a Great Place to Work® by 79% of our employees and certified in most of our growing locations. Here, we feel empowered, supported, and inspired to grow.

Are you ready to love your job?

The adventure begins right here, with you, at SITA.PURPOSE

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As the trusted partner to the BU CFO / Director for all Business Finance matters, the Finance Business Partner enables financially sound planning and decision making across the partner organization. The role spreads financial acumen, tells clear, data-driven stories that spur action, bridges the gap between finance and operations, and helps shape the decision support tools delivered with Data and Analytics / FP\&A.

The role takes a technology-guided, coaching-led approach to partnering, enabling decision makers to act more independently. It interprets data, advises the business and supports long-run performance management, drawing on a deep understanding of SITA's business models and financial drivers to convert analysis into decisions, targets and outcomes. It does not produce reporting; production is owned centrally by Data and Analytics / FP\&A.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

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Deepen decision makers’ Business Finance acumen

• Continuously coach decision makers on how Business Finance analyzes situations, develops insights, and applies them to decisions.
• Influence decisions through narrative and visuals: Turn financial analysis into clear, compelling stories linked to business decisions. Use standardized Data \& Analytics / FP\&A and BI reports, ERP analytics, Copilot, and tailored visuals based on governed data. Focus on decision quality rather than analysis volume.
• Challenge assumptions through problem analysis and root-cause exercises to reduce bias and introduce a Finance perspective.
• Train decision makers to use value-driver trees to connect operational decisions with enterprise value creation, risk mitigation, investment priorities, and financial impact.
• Improve financial data literacy through learning programs, financial storytelling, modeling, and scenario analysis, helping stakeholders understand financial impacts and risks.

Assess and anticipate decision makers’ needs

• Build strong relationships with executives and business leaders to understand financial needs, challenges, and the most effective support required.
• Identify latent needs through active listening and uncover opportunities for new decision-support tools and services from Data \& Analytics / FP\&A.
• Maintain continuous stakeholder feedback loops to rapidly improve Finance services and support.

Provide personalized decision support to executives

• Proactively guide executives toward meeting and exceeding performance goals.
• Monitor leading indicators to identify delivery risks and performance gaps, drive corrective actions, and recommend alternative approaches.
• Help executives identify opportunities to create enterprise value or mitigate risk through effective metric prioritization.

Support nonexecutive decision makers when appropriate

• Assess and prioritize inbound support requests and determine whether existing decision-support tools can meet the need or new solutions are required.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and support cost-reduction planning.
• Pressure-test budgets, providing Business Finance expertise on potential risks and constraints.
• Lead comprehensive business cases for investments, product initiatives, internal funding, and M\&A. Assess benefits, costs, risks, and ROI through realistic, measurable, stress-tested financial models. Partner with Pricing, Product, and transversal teams; present and defend cases to Investment Boards; track actual versus projected ROI; drive corrective actions; and lead post-M\&A integration planning.
• Identify performance issues and support course correction.

Facilitate digital decision-support tools

• Partner with technology teams to ensure tools provide actionable guidance for operational and strategic decisions.
• Act as the voice of the internal customer with Data \& Analytics / FP\&A and technology teams, helping design intuitive reports, analyses, and dashboards for nonexecutive decision makers.

Drive adoption of decision-support tools

• Match stakeholders with the most appropriate decision-support tools.
• Demonstrate their value through success stories and early adopters/change champions, tailoring communications to different audiences.
• Support change-management strategies that increase adoption of new tools and processes.
• Translate financial insights into clear business language so recommendations embedded in tools are intuitive and actionable.

Monitor and assess the value of support

• Champion Finance Business Partner and Data \& Analytics / FP\&A knowledge-sharing forums to exchange lessons on educating and supporting decision makers.
• Help define success criteria and measurable business and technical metrics for decision-support tools, monitoring utilization and quality.
• Proactively seek stakeholder feedback.

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE

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• Extensive experience in financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling
• Proven ability to train decision makers to have an enterprisewide perspective and in simplifying complex financial analysis into easily digestible logic
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