business manager Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
About the role
This is a role requiring an individual with commitment, drive and ambition. Reporting to the Head of Finance, this is a hands-on analytical Finance role ensuring strong financial governance of the airport’s capital expenditure programme, identifying key financial trends, driving productivity improvements, and helping to shape the future direction of the business through sound and insightful financial analysis.
We’re looking for someone to support the Technical Assets Director and the wider Technical Assets Leadership team, so the role is suited to someone that can build relationships with and influence key stakeholders at senior levels of an organisation.
This role is responsible for delivery of the full suite of business partnering responsibilities – including decision support, business planning & management reporting – for the Technical Assets team. This role focusses on strategic business support enabling value for Edinburgh Airport in each of these areas. You will be supported by our Management Accountant, who you will have line management responsibility for.
What you’ll be doing
Decision Support
- Providing insightful analysis, interpretation and explanation of trends and variances across the business
- Monitoring and reporting on individual capital project spend against approved limits and working with project managers to ensure spend is well controlled
- Representing Finance at the regular Capital Assurance Group forums
- Generating investment appraisals on capital projects measuring key financial metrics such as IRR, payback and NPV
- Producing post investment reviews of critical capital projects working with senior management to investigate the effectiveness of the capital programme
- Using your commercial acumen and knowledge of the business, you will identify and deliver cost productivity initiatives for the Technical Asset team and support the business to understand the concept of “best cost”
- You will hold full ownership and accountability for the Technical Assets annual budget with responsibility for ensuring alignment with business objectives, stakeholder support and sufficient rigor and control
- You will lead the periodic re-forecast process, driving the future strategic direction of the business in the form of the annual five-year business plan
- Full ownership of the Technical Assets month end process including variance analysis and reporting of financial performance to key stakeholders
- Providing insight and influencing the Executive team, Board and Shareholders on future costs and financial performance
- Responsible for the continuous improvement of monthly reporting to ensure it meets requirements of key stakeholders
What we’re looking for
- You’ll need to be a Professional Qualified Accountant (e.g. CA, ACCA, CIMA), ideally with 3 years post-qualified experience
- Degree qualified with a strong academic track record
- Proven commercial experience influencing senior stakeholders and their decision making
- Experience in management reporting, planning, and budgeting skills
- Detailed understanding of best practice approaches to developing management information and business partnering
- Problem solving – you have excellent analytical and numeracy skills, with the ability to analyse diverse financial and operational data and produce concise recommendations
- Relationship building – you are comfortable communicating with a variety of stakeholders and challenging their thinking to drive positive change, in particular at senior levels and across a range of finance expertise
- Decision making – you have excellent capability to interpret financial information to guide business critical decisions
- Team player – you’re motivated to make a difference across the wider Finance team
- Self-starter – you can you can run with tasks on your own and can work under pressure and to deadlines
- Technical ability – you have good working knowledge of MS Office and accounting systems in a large organisation
If your experience looks slightly different to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to still apply. You could add something we didn’t know we needed.
- Flexible working- whether that’s hybrid or flexible hours, we’ll help you find an option that suits you
- Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
- 32 days holiday, increasing with service
- Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday
- We offer a range of other benefits
Why EDI?
We are Edinburgh Airport, where Scotland meets the world. The success of the airport comes down to our people, and you can help us deliver even more big days for our passengers and colleagues. The development of your career is important to us, and we’ll support and encourage this every step of the way. As a business we’re driven by our values – they’re at the core of our culture and everything we do. We’re looking for people who will demonstrate these values day-in, day-out. So if this sounds like you, apply now and get ready for your career to take off.
Building a diverse workforce that is inclusive and accessible to all is a priority for our business. As part of this journey, we are proud to be the first UK airport to be endorsed by WORK180. They only recognise great employers for all women. Find out about our policies on our WORK180 employer page
As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring applicants with a disability can participate fully in our recruitment process. Please let us know in your application form if you require any adjustments, such as parking arrangements or alternative methods of communication.
