Finance Team Lead

The successful candidate will drive and control processes necessary to manage the different major units within the Group Finance department of EK Revenue Services. The focus areas of the major units comprise analysing the risks and internal controls as applicable for revenue, credit cards, indirect taxes, master management, supplier and employee disbursements in a business unit, identifying solutions, mitigating risk, accuracy and integrity in financial accounting through process of GL review/reconciliation complying with Group Policies and Procedures, Group Finance Masters - Revenue and Cost, Revenue/Yield reporting, Commercial Systems, facilitate tax compliance, service delivery to internal and external customers, managing and enhancing key processes as required to enhance efficiency and drive optimization of unit costs.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate closely with various stakeholders to identify, evaluate and review respective team activities and functions and provide recommendations to Senior Management for process and system enhancements for managing overall risk, coordinate with the relevant stakeholders to ensure that the recommended changes are implemented as agreed by the management.
• Establish and maintain Standard Operating Procedures and specific work instructions and ensure compliance to the Group Finance Policies and Procedures.
• Work with the external, internal and government auditors to resolve their queries and observations by providing the required analytical information to ensure the smooth completion of the audit.
• Manage, motivate and develop the team into a cohesive working unit, maximise team accuracy and productivity so that respective team deliverables are completed in the most cost effective way and as per the KPIs set.
• Evaluate and establish the risk relating to OAL fares, areas of concerns, yield dilution, etc. to assist the assurance process.
• Establish and manage Revenue Assurance strategy and structure cross functional engagement process to add value through analytical tools, data transparency and risk-based audit.
• Engage and communicate with internal stakeholders (RO, Commercial) and OAL partners to assess and validate discrepancy identified on respective ticket stock with Pricing Protocol/Corporate Discount Framework and recommend corrective actions.
• Ensure disputes on interline billing discrepancies are resolved within agreed time frames and review justification provided by OAL partners to enable acceptance/rejection of the discrepancy.
• Support Commercial with technical expertise (industry knowledge, Commercial/SPA agreements, etc.) to enable decision making on new agreements or amendments to existing agreements.
• Manage identified discrepancy review process with appropriate response to OAL partners.
• Undertake periodic reporting to Senior Management on analysis output and overall assurance.