Reporting Team Manager - Glasgow based

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Job Description

The Finance Service Delivery Team Managers are responsible for leading a team that has end to end accountability for our core finance processes. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, people management and operational oversight.

The Record to Report Team Manager is responsible for managing the preparation, analysis and completion of our Management Performance Reporting and Board Reporting packs for our Finance Directors, CFO and shareholders. The team manager will also be responsible for our Finance Support tasks, including but not limited to subledger reviews, balance sheets, budget and rolling forecast co-ordination.

The role will work collaboratively with leaders and colleagues to deliver effective and efficient services and to lead and coach their teams to deliver operational excellence. Additionally, they will play a key role in influencing, shaping and driving service delivery operational and strategic improvements.

Building and maintaining excellent relationships across all stakeholders to drive operational excellence and ongoing continuous improvement is key. In this role you will engage with a wide range of stakeholders including our Finance Service Delivery teams, Finance Business Partnering, Business Planning, Traffic Insights etc.

Responsibilities

• Recording, summarising and reporting transactions from our core processes.
• Managing the delivery of our Management Performance and Investor Reporting.
• Service Delivery presentations to senior stakeholders/ customers.
• Business scorecard performance management to drive high performance and good customer service.
• Working closely with internal/external audit to close off requests in a timely fashion.
• Leading a team of four, motivating and developing the team whilst ensuring key deliverables are met efficiently and effectively.

Qualifications

• Qualified, part-qualified or QBE accountant with experience of Management and Financial Reporting.
• Skilled at transforming financial data into clear, actionable insights.
• Proven managerial experience of leading, coaching and motivating teams.
• Strong communications skills with a demonstrable track record of excellent stakeholder engagement to non-finance audiences, and ability to influence recommendations and decisions.
• Evidence of having worked with internal and external auditors.

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About Us

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.

Working location

Your contractual place of work will be the Heathrow Business Services Centre in Glasgow so you'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to work.

We also have some hybrid roles with a working approach which offers the opportunity for colleagues to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process.

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.

About the Team

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.