Finance Analyst

Introduction

Join Heathrow’s Business Services team and you’ll help us deliver our bold ambitions, whilst supporting colleagues to achieve theirs.

Our team is involved in every element of People and Finance activity. That includes payroll, casework, referencing and onboarding, through to billing, paying suppliers, and month end activities. It’s up to us to lead, support and deliver an excellent service across our core processes including:

• Managing Revenue
• Procurement
• Project and Asset Management
• Finance Processes
• People Processes

Our Business Services teams focus on three areas:
Systems and Transformation, Service Delivery, and Business Intelligence.

There’s no place like Heathrow when it comes to the scale of our ambitions. Our airport is in a period of rapid growth and change. To succeed, we need to be able to make decisions quickly, evaluate the financial, non‑financial and carbon impact of our choices, and ensure they are supported by accurate data and insight.

This is an exciting time, as we deliver a new Business Services vision that embraces technology, drives continuous process improvement and unlocks insights to drive our business. Join us and discover unlimited opportunities to make a difference.

You will gain exposure across all levels of the business through responsibilities such as understanding sub‑ledger processes, preparing monthly reports, and collaborating closely with both finance and non‑finance teams. This role offers a fantastic platform to broaden your expertise and make a real impact!

We welcome applications from fully qualified accountants as well as those who are close to completing the qualification or qualified by experience, particularly if you bring a strong appetite for learning, continuous improvement, and a proactive mindset.

• Monitoring performance against budgets, tracking both cost and revenue lines to highlight variances and provide analysis and Reporting Packs for month end
• Processing manual journals to ensure the accuracy of financial data
• Preparing functional budgets and conducting in‑depth analysis of financial data to provide insight to support strategic decision‑making
• Supporting the execution of our core R2R financial processes and accounting policies, ensuring consistency and clarity across the organisation to deliver robust and compliant financial and management reporting.
• Continuously supporting the refinement and enhancement of our existing processes, challenging outputs to deliver relevant, value‑adding analysis for business use
• Maintaining communications with key customers and business areas and continuously nurturing relationships to ensure centre of excellence is maintained and continues to provide a value‑add service to the Business
• Supporting the Team Manager in development culture, through development and coaching of key team members

• Experience in budget preparation
• Highly numerate with strong analytical skills
• Data analysis and insight using up‑to‑date technology
• Accounting knowledge i.e. key accounting principles
• Experience working in a fast‑paced environment
• Self‑motivated and flexible team player, also comfortable working on own initiative
• Excellent interpersonal skills, evidenced through communicating effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to adapt and embrace change
• Ideally, you’ll also have:
• Full or part qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or other if applicable)
• Experience of working with Oracle Fusion

There’s something so special about working for the world’s most iconic airport. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities with no end of exciting prospects to explore. A team that feels like family, a place where you belong.

Working for Heathrow brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve…