Job Description

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.



The Finance Analyst is a great opportunity for a part-qualified accountant to further develop their experience in a high performing team that empowers colleagues to achieve their potential and deliver the best outcomes for Heathrow. You will be a key member of the team supporting the consolidation and reporting process within Oracle Fusion including preparation of year-end Group and subsidiary statutory accounts.


You will gain great exposure across the business through collaboration across teams at both the Business Services and wider finance team at Heathrow Airport, as well as external parties such as auditors.



Support the upcoming system changes to align with FRS102 lease accounting which are effective from 1st January 2026. Play a key role in helping to deliver the FRS102 project, working closely with the finance systems and transformation project team. Completion of user acceptance testing, reconciliations and ensuring the smooth transition of the IFRS 16 lease data is reflected correctly for reporting purposes at entity and group level. Reporting and ensuring the integrity, quality and timeliness of reported results. Preparing year end reporting packs for all groups entities which can be used for statutory account preparation. Submitting consolidation journals for review, ensuring appropriate support is maintained for audit evidence. Working closely with other centres of excellence such as Financial Control, Tax and Treasury to prepare and post their required journals in timely manner. Drive data consistency where consolidation/late journals are posted ensuring these are pushed down to the relevant place within the ERP system and they do not remain as topside journals. Posting and calculating central adjustments as required and performing a first level of review on valuations and on the monthly Group cashflows. Working with the Record to Report team on medium to longer term projects relating to improvements in reporting capability or arising through updates to accounting standards.

Part-qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or other if applicable). Experience in preparation of IFRS Group accounts and understanding of large group consolidations advantageous. Exposure / experience in the external and internal audit processes. Highly numerate with strong analytical skills. Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively at all levels of stakeholders both written and verbally, including ability to influence and persuade others.
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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.