Job Description

Job Category: Finance
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We're looking for a commercially minded and collaborative Finance Manager - Business Planning to join our team. In this role, you'll play a key part in delivering Heathrow's short-term financial planning and forecasting, driving automation in planning systems, and owning people cost modelling to enhance accuracy and insight. You will also manage a small team of Finance Analysts, providing leadership, guidance, and development.
Responsibilities:

• Leading short-term business planning and forecasting cycles, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and financial targets.
• Owning and developing people cost modelling, providing accurate workforce cost forecasts and insights to support business decisions.
• Driving system automation and process improvements for planning and reporting outputs, enabling faster, more accurate, and efficient delivery.
• Producing high-quality financial analysis and commentary, including variance analysis, scenario modelling, and performance insights.
• Collaborating with Finance Business Partners and operational teams to challenge assumptions, validate inputs, and ensure plans are realistic and deliverable.
• Managing and developing Finance Analysts, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting their professional growth.
• Ensuring governance and integrity of financial data, maintaining consistency across planning tools and outputs.

Qualifications:

• A finance qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience in financial planning, analysis, and business partnering.
• Proven ability to deliver process improvements and drive system automation.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate numbers into actionable insights.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams
• Previous experience managing or mentoring team members.

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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 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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