Leading the financial planning and analysis function, overseeing budgeting, forecasting and financial data analysis to support strategic decision-making, business performance and long-term financial objectives.
Key Responsibilities: Financial Planning & Forecasting • Lead the Group’s annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range planning processes across all brands, regions, business units and legal entities, including international entities outside Malta reporting into the role • Coordinate with local and international finance teams to ensure timely, accurate and consistent submissions into the Group planning and forecasting processes. • Design, develop, and continuously enhance forecasting and planning tools, leveraging existing systems and, where appropriate, new software solutions to improve accuracy, scalability, and efficiency. • Maintain robust forecasting models covering revenue and operating expenditure. Pricing, Revenue & Commercial Performance • Play an active role in group pricing exercises, providing financial analysis and challenge on proposed pricing, discounts, and promotional strategies. • Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Management to support pricing decisions, yield optimisation, and revenue maximisation by brand, market, itinerary, and vessel. • Analyse pricing outcomes post implementation and assess impact on revenue, margin, occupancy, and booking behaviour. • Ensure pricing assumptions are consistently reflected in forecasts, budgets, and long-term plans. Performance Management & Analysis • Deliver consolidated group performance reporting, including variance analysis versus budget, forecast, and prior periods. • Develop and maintain KPIs focused on revenue growth, pricing effectiveness, yield, margin performance, and return on assets. • Proactively identify risks and opportunities impacting revenue and profitability and escalate insights to senior management. Strategic & Investment Support • Support strategic initiatives, fleet deployment decisions, and business cases with rigorous financial and pricing analysis. • Provide financial insight into capacity planning, new vessel introductions, and long-term asset utilisation. • Support scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis, with particular focus on pricing, demand, and revenue sustainability. Governance, Consistency & Data Integrity • Ensure accuracy, integrity, and consistency of financial data, assumptions, and methodologies across the Group. • Establish and maintain group FP&A standards, processes, and reporting timelines across Malta and the Group’s international operations • Work closely with Accounting, Treasury, and Tax to ensure alignment between pricing decisions, operational performance, and financial outcomes. Leadership & Stakeholder Management • Lead and develop the Group FP&A function, including regional and functional FP&A resources where applicable. • Provide functional and managerial oversight of finance teams and entities outside Malta that report into the Director of FP&A, ensuring appropriate financial management, reporting, planning and performance oversight. • Act as the primary finance point of coordination for those international entities, ensuring effective communication and alignment between local management and Group Finance. • Act as a senior finance partner to the Executive Team, market heads, and commercial leadership. • Present financial, pricing, and revenue insights to senior management and, where required, to the Board.
If multiple Education and Language Profiles are defined, please note that you must fit at least one of them, but not necessarily all.
| Subject | Level | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| FINANCE | FIRST DEGREE / BACHELORATE | N.A. |
| ACCOUNTANCY | FIRST DEGREE / BACHELORATE | N.A. |
