Finance Analyst London, England
Job description
As a Finance Analyst, you will be required to partner with multiple non-finance stakeholders at various levels within the Retail division of Heathrow. You will use your excellent analytical and reporting abilities bringing clarity and insight that aid business decisions. You will also work closely with the Finance Business Services Team ensuring controls are robust and numbers are accurate.
- Business partnering with the Heads of Category, Senior Account Managers and Accounting Managers to understand and improve Retail performance
- Analysing KPI trends and presenting findings to Business Partners in Head of Category monthly performance meetings
- Supporting Senior Account Managers to build action plans to improve underperforming categories
- Production of PowerPoint and Power BI management reports
- Collating and processing financial and non-financial information from various stakeholders and sources required for reporting
- Continuous development of management report processes and insight
- Collaborating with our Finance Business Services Team ensuring Retail month end numbers are accurate and fully understood, and support on annual budgets and forecasts
- Leading the review of monthly sales provisions of Retail concessionaires
- Supporting the tendering process by recommending the best value propositions,
- Assisting Capital programmes with investment appraisal & financial assurance activities
- Collaborating with the wider Finance Team to support our data strategy with a transformation towards automated self-service management information
- Strong communication skills with a demonstrable track record of excellent stakeholder engagement
- Experience in providing business insight, analytical support and clear presentation of financial and business information to non-finance stakeholders.
- Knowledge and experience of working in a similar role - experience of complex commercial and regulated environments within a large organisation.
- An enquiring mind with the drive to understand and simplify complex problems.
- Strong finance acumen with analytical mindset and the ability to spot data linkages, errors and opportunities. Ability to create financial models and present volumes of data clearly and concisely.
- Strong Excel analysis and modelling skills with experience in creating professional and engaging PowerPoint slide decks
- Qualified (or by experience)/part qualified Accountant - CIMA, ACCA, ACA
Ideally, you'll also have:
- Experience / knowledge of using Oracle systems
- Power BI experience
Heathrow brings the world closer together. Our airport facilitates the global travel and trade that keeps the economy moving. It’s a place like no other – a city within a city – where colleagues connect around a common goal, giving our passengers the best airport service in the world.
There is a world of opportunity at Heathrow. You’ll reach your full potential within our inclusive and supportive culture, whilst helping us to deliver our ambitious plans. Not only are we growing to welcome millions more passengers each year, we’re also transforming our industry. Sustainability is at the heart of Heathrow and we’re leading global efforts on decarbonisation, so that aviation continues to be a force for good in our world.
Taking the journey with us means living our values. Doing the right thing. Keeping everyone safe. Working together. Treating everyone with respect. Giving excellent service. Improving every day. Our ever-changing airport runs on teamwork and creativity. A career at Heathrow is welcoming, diverse, challenging, exciting, and rewarding.
Join Heathrow and grow your career in an airport that matters to millions.
Our rewards
We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits, along with performance-based annual bonuses, our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, 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 we’ll provide learning and development opportunities to help you reach your full potential.
Working Location
Our agile approach offers the opportunity to combine home working with meetings, events and training at the airport. All roles involve some on-site working each week, so you’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.
Sustainable Travel to work
Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. 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. With four diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
