Senior Manager Business Finance (Travel Tech)

Location: Barcelona, Spain. Hybrid arrangement with work from home up to 2 days per week depending on team needs; flex-location allows up to 30 days per year working from any location in the world.

Company

hirify.global provides technology and communications solutions for airports, airlines, borders, transportation, and government clients across the global air travel industry.

What you will do

• Partner with the BU CFO, executives, and business leaders on planning, performance management, cost transparency, and investment decisions.
• Coach decision makers in financial analysis, value-driver trees, data literacy, scenario analysis, and enterprise-wide decision making.
• Prepare and defend investment and product business cases, including benefits, costs, risks, ROI models, funding approval, and post-approval tracking.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities, pressure-test budgets, monitor leading indicators, and support corrective actions.
• Work with Data and Analytics, FP&A, BI, and technology teams to design intuitive reports, analyses, dashboards, and decision-support tools.
• Drive adoption of decision-support tools, define success metrics, and support change-management and continuous-improvement activities.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, P&L and balance-sheet understanding, KPI driver maps, and reporting methodologies.
• At least 7 years of experience in financial analysis, controlling, or business partnering, preferably in a multinational, high-technology environment.
• Proven ability to simplify complex financial analysis, train decision makers, challenge assumptions, identify root causes, and support enterprise-wide decisions.
• Strong relationships with business-unit leaders and stakeholders, senior-management experience, sound judgment, and effective delegation.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally to create and implement financial decision-support tools and establish measurable success criteria and utilization metrics.
• People-management experience in an international, multi-matrix organization, including the ability to manage, motivate, and develop teams.
• Strong strategic thinking and business acumen covering revenue drivers, sales optimization, margin management, and metrics cascades.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, presentation, coaching, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Conversational fluency with GenAI and Copilot, including prompt construction, output validation for bias and errors, human-oversight judgment, data storytelling, basic statistical literacy, and awareness of agentic AI governance.
• Ability to use and interpret AI and analytics outputs without building production models, pipelines, or data products.
• Knowledge of the travel-tech market and its economic drivers, management accounting, and relevant accounting standards.
• Experience with financial systems and ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Onstream, or Fabric.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience managing change and supporting adoption of new tools and processes.
• MBA.
• Professional finance or accounting accreditation such as CIMA, ACCA, CPA, or CFA.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and diverse international environment operating across 200 countries and 60 languages and cultures.
• Flex Day to adapt the workday to personal plans and needs.
• Up to 30 days per year working from any location in the world through the Flex-Location program.
• Employee Assistance Program and Champion Health wellbeing support for employees and dependents.
• Professional development through LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft’s Enterprise Skills Initiative, Airport Council International, Pluralsight, Harvard Business Publishing, Stanford, and other learning platforms.
• Competitive benefits aligned with the local market and employment status.