Finance Manager, Engineering/Heavy Rail & Baggage

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Job Description

As a Finance Manager - Engineering, Baggage & Rail, you will play a key role in bringing clarity and insight to the business decisions within the function.

All functions across Heathrow lean on finance advice when making business decisions, tactical or strategic, with immediate effect or longer term. This finance leadership role will play an integral part in helping to explain to a variety of stakeholders, the different value-drivers.

The Finance Manager will provide strong financial support for the Engineering, Baggage & Rail Director, and the role requires sophisticated stakeholder management, excellent modelling, and evaluation skills with the confidence to operate across a number of teams at senior levels.

In addition, the Finance Manager will line manage a Financial Analyst who will support in the development of pricing proposals, cost recovery, as well as monthly performance tracking and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Reporting financial performance and providing management insight on results and implications for the outlook, as well as ad-hoc analysis.
• Being integral to delivering a meaningful budgeting and planning process that has buy-in from stakeholders.
• Preparation and presentation of financial and non-financial information to support executive and managerial decisions.
• Appraise and advise on EBITDA impacts of capital projects on the P&L for forecasting purposes and post project benefits analysis.
• Building strong relationships with key stakeholders such that key financial decisions are only taken with finance business partner advice & oversight.
• Suggesting, supporting and delivering improvement initiatives for financial and non-financial processes. Taking ownership and development of financial dashboards tailored for the business.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant - ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent, or part qualified with extensive QBE experience.
• Experience dealing with non-finance colleagues and influencing them to add financial value to the business to minimise risk.
• Strong analytical mindset and appetite to solve problems, with the ability to gather, coordinate and present complex and diverse financial information.
• Ability to implement high-impact continuous improvement initiatives.
• Commercial outlook.

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Previous line management experience, including leading and motivating a team of financial analysts to deliver against tight timescales.
• Strong financial modelling skills.
• Ability to gather, coordinate and present complex and diverse financial and non-financial information in a rational, succinct, and clear way that drive decision making and business change.

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About Us

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you'll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It 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.

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.

About the Team

Discover a one-of-a-kind career. Our vision at Heathrow is to be an extraordinary airport, fit for the future. In the Finance team we know that generating income is critical to driving our business forward, but it's also vital that we create positive passenger and customer experiences that make every journey better. You'll help us to get the balance right so we can continue investing in our world-class environment.

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Heathrow's size, scale, and reputation for innovation translates to exciting opportunities for everyone. Finance here is about more than numbers. It's about being influential, developing trusted relationships, and showing the world that we're a responsible investment with a bright future; a place that embraces digital innovation and has a sustainable mindset. You'll become part of a team that drives excellence across everything from insurance to investment, treasury to business partnering, as you collaborate widely to deliver projects that directly impact millions of passengers each year.