Manager Business Data & Analytics

About the team you are joining IATA Corporate services (CS) encompass Corporate Finance, Treasury and Tax, Financial Planning Analysis (FP A), Global Finance Operations, Corporate Risk and Compliance, Corporate Administration and Procurement activities. Join our Corporate Services division to help build the next generation of Finance organization for IATA. The ambition we have set ourselves as a division is to “Be the trusted proactive partner, providing data-driven and AI-enabled corporate services for the business, while upholding the highest fiduciary standards.” A few years ago, IATA defined a Data Vision Strategy, supported by an Information Data (I D) operating model. The organisation is entering the next phase by launching a Business Data Analytics practice within the Corporate Services FP A department. This practice will be instrumental in building a business-oriented, agile, and outcome-driven Data Analytics function that enables proactive decision making. This initiative is grounded in a spirit of strong partnership across all IATA divisions. It is within this context that the current position is being created. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Business Data Analytics, within the FP A department. What your day would be like You will act as a business data and analytics specialist partnering closely with FP A teams, business stakeholders, and Information Data teams to lead the execution of FP A data and analytics priorities and deliver high-impact business insights that support enterprise decision-making and performance management. You will: Analyze complex financial, operational, and enterprise performance data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and key business drivers, and provide actionable recommendations that support management decisions and business performance outcomes. Own, govern and continuously evolve the FP A reporting and visualization ecosystem by developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards, reports, and scorecards that serve as the trusted source of truth for business performance and decision-making. Drive the integrity and reliability of FP A data by establishing and maintaining robust data quality controls, validation processes, business definitions, and governance practices that enable trust and consistent insights. Design, maintain, and enhance enterprise reporting data models and analytical datasets, ensuring scalability, performance, consistency, and alignment with business reporting requirements. Serve as a key analytics partner for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), ensuring data consistency, integrity, and alignment across planning, forecasting, and reporting activities. Lead analytics-driven process improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities for automation, eliminating manual activities, standardizing reporting practices and implementing scalable solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, governance and user experience. Act as a trusted advisor for FP A and business stakeholders, translating strategic and operational requirements into analytical, reporting and performance management solutions. Own and drive the continuous enhancement of KPI frameworks, management reporting standards, and performance measurement practices, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and decision-making needs. Champion the effective use of cloud-based analytics platforms and modern data capabilities to enable scalable analytics, reporting, and self-service insight generation. Provide specialist expertise in the design and enhancement of reporting-oriented data models, data pipelines, and data structures ensuring alignment with enterprise analytics and performance management requirements. Establish and maintain business definitions, reporting standards, data lineage documentation, and analytics requirements to promote transparency, governance, consistency, and knowledge sharing across the organization. Evaluate and promote opportunities to apply advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and AI-enabled capabilities to enhance forecasting, business performance analysis, and decision support. Provide subject matter expertise on FP A analytics, reporting standards, data governance, and performance measurement practices, influencing the evolution of business data and analytics capabilities across Corporate Services.