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Job Title
Finance Analyst
Days, Shifts and Hours
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 40 hours per week
Payrate: (Apply online only) per day
Contract duration: 6 months
Location - Heathrow Airport
Role Purpose
The Finance Analyst will be supporting the development and project management of Heathrow's Business Plan. Over time, the role holder will have the opportunity to gain experience in various workstreams across the team including annual budget cycles, people modelling and long-term modelling.
With the support of a Finance Manager, the role holder will help define, shape, and influence key strategic choices and decisions supporting Heathrow's performance whether that is in the short term on annual business plans/budgets or over the medium to long term through a regulatory or masterplan lens.
The role will focus on delivering the single source of the truth for all business planning activities, driving seamless integration and close collaboration with key stakeholders across Heathrow and our shareholders. Collaboration, governance, processes, and transparency are the foundations to the team's success.
The role forms part of a wider team of Business Planning, and role holders will work closely with colleagues across many teams in Finance as well as the wider business involved in the transition from strategic to medium-short term business planning.
The Business Planning & Treasury team can offer a hybrid work model.
Principal Accountabilities
Business Plan & Off-cycle requests
Operate and maintain Heathrow's modelling tools
Run scenarios and provide data insight to support strategic decisions
Support Heathrow's annual and long term planning cycle and off-cycle requests for Business Planning Insight
Project-manage activities and deliverables across workstreams - drive alignment
Engage with the People team, Finance Business Partners and the wider Heathrow team to source, review and prepare inputs for financial model updates
Models and Processes
Record, evidence, and quantify all assumptions and ensure all models are updated and aligned
Support continuous model improvements including adapting interface for better collaboration with business partnering team and providing insights into the data
Ensure all information is fully documented and governance is in place
Internal and External information disclosures
Synthesise complex information to deliver simple message to senior audience
Ensure governance, processes, transparency are all adhered to.
Produce high quality reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders
Other responsibilities
Support responses to queries from shareholder asset managers.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
Financial modelling: ability to operate and interrogate excel based models
Interpersonal skills: ability to engage, network, influence key stakeholders
Project Management: attention to detail, be proactive, anticipate the next move
Analytical: eye for detail, diligent, solve problems, monitor compliance
Strong Communication: interact with senior internal/external audiences
Desirable
Financial Modelling awareness: design, build models
Finance Qualification: Part-Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
