Company Description

Why IAG GBS?

IAG GBS (Global Business Services) is part of International Airlines Group, one of the world’s leading airline groups, with 546 aircraft flying to over 270 destinations, carrying more than 100 million passengers each year.

IAG GBS provides a plug and play platform of scalable, best in class procurement, finance and IT business services to IAG’s operating companies which include Aer Lingus, IAG Loyalty, British Airways, IAG, IAG Cargo, Iberia, Iberia Express, LEVEL and Vueling.

The company is headquartered in Krakow, and has operations in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Dublin.

Job Description

Purpose of the role

The Financial Risk Analyst a finance position within the Group’s Financial Risk Management team (Treasury)

• The role requires to provide financial and business analytics support to the front and middle office hedging activities performed to enable the implementation of the risk management strategies within the policy framework
• To contribute on the development of the processes, tools and methodologies to better manage the financial risk exposures within the group with focus on the jet fuel and emissions trading activities

You will make an impact in this role by.

• Support the analysis and operations to implement appropriate financial risk management strategies for managing Group’s global exposure to the Commodity price variations;
• Ensure that all the trading activity is carried out in line with Group and operating company treasury principles;
• Fluently control portfolios of products, market data and information derived from the treasury operations;
• Develop and implement data analysis and leverage data collection systems to optimize financial decision-making efficiency;
• Provide support to FRM managers in relation to daily financial risk management, consolidate and update exposures and relevant data in treasury system;
• Prepare, produce and deliver the company’s internal and external risk management reporting requirements in a timely and accurate manner including compliance and consolidation reports;
• Support any new project and improvement to enhance treasury performance;
• Exemplary represent the financial risk management team on internal and external departmental meetings or initiatives;
• Stay up to date with market trends, methodologies, and peers benchmark to shape company needs.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you are likely to have:

• Basic experience in treasury, risk management, finance areas, analysis and financial market systems, procurement or IT departments;
• Desirable understanding of derivatives instruments and their use to mitigate commodities, interest rate and FX risks;
• Desirable knowledge of the global energy markets, end-to-end commodity life-cycle, market trends and issues relating to financial risks and trading activities;
• Basic experience of successfully managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
• Desirable previous experience in statistics and dataset analytics (using Excel, Python, Excel VBA) desirable
• Ability to gather, analyse data and present information in a concise and accurate format for decision making, meetings and strategic reporting
• Aptitude for mathematics and for grasping details 
• Assertive on taking market decisions and fluent on elaborate and present executive financial information
• Ability to operate effectively in an environment with tight deadlines.
• Proactive and open minded to innovate and adapt to new ideas, skills and technologies related with the financial business
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills displaying confidence and professionalism;
• Excellent team player who enjoys working in an international and multi-cultural environment
• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or equivalent, and/or ability to demonstrate knowledge of working in finance related or risk management environment.

Additional Information

What we offer…

• The chance to enjoy a challenging career in an exciting, fast-moving environment in a dynamic industry;
•  The opportunity to work in a multi-cultural environment with great offices in many locations. We aim to provide all our people with a work/life balance, as well as the many benefits offered by a global organisation, including health insurance, pension and performance bonuses;
•  We are an equal opportunities employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.