Job Description

Job Category: Finance
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The Finance Analyst - Internal Controls and Risk Management supports and develops Heathrow's Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) framework, ensuring governance and financial resilience. Responsibilities include reviewing and improving ICFR processes, aligning with UK Corporate Governance, assisting with process and control standardisation, and addressing control gaps. The position involves collaboration with auditors and stakeholders across Finance, as well as the wider business, training on ICFR updates, and developing sustainability controls for external reporting.
Responsibilities:

• Supporting the development and continuous improvement of Heathrow's ICFR Framework, including sustainability reporting. Identifying opportunities to streamline and strengthen the Framework, in line with best practice.
• Assisting with the development of the ICFR Assessment guidance documentation with clear roles and responsibilities.
• Support the Risk and Controls Matrices for all processes, testing of controls, including Entity Level Controls and working with Heathrow's IT team on review of IT control framework. Ensure the process narratives to help identify significant risks and respective key controls are prepared, maintained and up to date. Prepare templates for the Risk and Control Matrices, Process Narratives, Internal Control Gap Report.
• Managing internal control gaps reporting and monitor remediation, including relevant internal and external audits gaps. Ensure that management action plans and deadlines properly address identified internal control gaps. Perform root cause analysis on internal control gaps and liaise with internal and external auditors to help ensure internal control issues raised are properly addressed by management.
• Support the preparation of management reporting on internal control gap remediation status and areas of concern to the Finance Leadership Team and Audit Committee.
• Support on internal controls for other internal control-related programmes such as Risk Management, Anti-Fraud, Senior Accounting Officer (SAO), Sustainability and Failure to Prevent Facilitation of Tax Evasion. Acting as the subject matter expert to also advise and recommend on internal controls with new financial system implementations, as needed.

Qualifications:

• Either part of fully qualified ACA, CPA, CIA or Qualified by experience
• Demonstrable relevant internal controls and report writing experience
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels, including senior management evidenced through working in a similar role
• Ability to work flexibly on own initiative and without close supervision
• Flexibility to move between business dimensions and subjects, running several parallel agendas in different subject areas whilst maintaining capability to support wider finance initiatives

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 Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles 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. You'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.
Sustainable Travel to work
Heathrow's 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 five 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.

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