Job Description

Join our Finance Service Delivery Team in Glasgow and play a pivotal role in shaping the financial landscape of Heathrow. As a Finance Specialist, you’ll be at the heart of our mission, ensuring the precision of month-end deliveries and upholding the financial integrity that aligns with Heathrow’s ambitious vision. Your expertise will guide the application and interpretation of company policies, ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreements.

You’ll be a guardian of process excellence, continuously updating and following rigorous controls. Your contributions will resonate through the Balanced Business Scorecard, driving core business strategies and validating operational efficiency with timely data insights.

Please note this is a 12 month FTC.

• Processing manual journals to ensure the accuracy of financial data
• Understanding of transactional flows to provide analysis and insight on Profit & Loss Accounts versus budgeting
• Commentary on Financial Performance and Balance Sheet reconciliations. Identifying trends and providing reporting to key business stakeholders
• Identifying trends in variance analysis to identify risks and opportunities and support the preparation of functional budgets
• Maintaining key customer relationships to ensure a value-add service, with regular engagement between Heathrow and Finance Service Delivery to promote an integrated team approach across locations

• High numeracy and strong analytical skills
• Curiosity and the drive to question processes to become more efficient
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively at all levels of stakeholders both written and verbally
• Flexibility, self-motivation, and strong organisational skills. The ability to work on own initiative, without close supervision to plan, prioritise and work to deadlines
• Experience of working in a fast-paced changing environment

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Knowledge of Financial Accounting
• Ability to influence and persuade others

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 more than you might ever have imagined. Because there’s no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

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Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from everybody. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work, and through our diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.