Chief Financial Officer, dnata Brazil

Job Purpose

dnata is more than a global air and travel services provider. We connect people with possibilities and opportunities across 130+ airports in 34 countries through ground handling, cargo, travel, and catering & retail services. Our purpose is clear: to deliver on the promises our customers make. We are powered by a bold vision to be the world’s most admired air and travel services provider, which guides our strategy, culture, and every role across our teams. Our core values fuel everything we do: we are safe, we play to win, we respect everyone and work together as a team, and we are future thinking. At dnata, we foster diversity, nurture ambition, and celebrate achievement. If you're inspired by purpose and motivated to be part of a global team shaping the future of aviation and travel, we’d love to have you onboard.

dnata Brazil is one of the country's leading aviation services providers and a key part of dnata's global network. With a workforce of approximately 5,500 aviation professionals operating across 25+ airports throughout Brazil, the business delivers a comprehensive range of ground handling services to more than 15 airline customers and supports over 200,000 aircraft turnarounds annually.

As a Chief Financial Officer , you will be a commercially astute and strategic finance leader, responsible for driving financial strategy, enhancing business performance, strengthening governance, and supporting sustainable growth across the organisation. As a key member of the executive leadership team and a trusted partner to the CEO, you will provide financial insight, challenge, and direction to improve profitability, optimise funding and liquidity, manage risk, and enable informed decision-making. You will also lead the development of a high-performing finance function, driving operational excellence, financial discipline, and long-term value creation while supporting the organisation's continued growth and success in Brazil.

In this role, you will

• Lead financial strategy, long-term planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and partner with leadership to drive sustainable growth and strong financial performance.

• Ensure robust financial controls, governance, compliance, risk management, and effective capital allocation across the organisation.

• Oversee financing, liquidity, cash flow, working capital, revenue assurance, billing accuracy, and collections to ensure financial stability and operational efficiency.

• Strengthen FP&A capabilities through the delivery of credible forecasting, robust business performance analysis, and enhanced visibility of customer, contract and station profitability. Provide commercial insight and constructive challenge to operational leadership on pricing decisions, productivity, cost drivers, margins and performance improvement initiatives to drive sustainable profitability and business performance.

• Lead funding and treasury activities while supporting commercial negotiations, contract profitability, pricing strategies, and customer payment management.

Build and develop a high-performing finance function and lead finance transformation through talent development, digitalisation, automation, process standardisation and continuous improvement. Strengthen financial discipline by implementing scalable processes, robust controls, clear accountability frameworks and performance management mechanisms that support business growth, governance and operational excellence.

This role is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Qualification

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline and 10+ years’ experience of progressive finance leadership experience, including at least 5 years in a senior executive finance role

• Professional accounting qualification required

• Strong FP&A, treasury, financial control, governance, and commercial finance experience

• Experience leading large, com