Capital Accounting Team Manager

Heathrow Airport; Paisley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Heathrow Airport is seeking a Capital Accounting Team Leader to oversee project and asset management while managing a team of nine. The candidate will engage with various stakeholders, ensuring efficient delivery of capital projects and driving improvements. This position offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Performance-based bonuses

Generous annual leave

Market-leading pensions

Private health insurance

Varied learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in capital-intensive environments and long-term capital projects.
• Managerial experience leading and motivating teams.
• Experience implementing continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Managing delivery of capitalisation and projects process.
• Reviewing month-end subledger balance sheets for risks.
• Leading the capital accounting team and driving strategic initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Mindset

Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Qualified/part-qualified accountant

Job description

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Job Description

Our Glasgow-based Capital Accounting Team is responsible for project and asset management, ensuring strong delivery of our capitalisation and projects process. This role leads the team and works with a wide range of stakeholders across the complex Heathrow business supporting annual capital expenditure of £1bn.

The role holder will work collaboratively with leaders and colleagues to deliver effective and efficient services and to lead and coach the team of 9 to deliver operational excellence. Additionally, they will play a key role in influencing, shaping and driving service delivery operational and strategic improvements. In this role you will engage with a wide range of stakeholders including Financial Control, PMO, Project Control, Project Management and Capital Portfolio Business Partnering teams.

You will need experience from a capital-intensive environment with long-term capital projects coupled with mature team leadership. You should be an excellent stakeholder manager with experience managing internal and external relationships.

Responsibilities

• Managing optimal delivery of our capitalisation and projects process.
• Reviewing and signing off from a delivery perspective of month end subledger balance sheet and looking for opportunties/risks.
• Service Delivery presentations to senior stakeholders/ customers.
• Business scorecard performance management to drive high performance and good customer service.
• Leading and managing the Capital accounting team, driving strategic initiatives and ensuring key deliverables are met efficiently and effectively.

Qualifications

• Qualified/part-qualified accountant with exposure to a Capital-intensive environment and long-term Capital projects
• Managerial experience of leading, coaching and motivating teams
• Experience of implementing high-impact continuous improvement initiatives
• Reflective with the demonstrable ability to adapt self or others to embrace change and deliver results
• Strong analytical mindset and appetite to solve problems and motivate a team to do so
• Strong communications skills with a demonstrable track record of excellent stakeholder engagement and ability to influence recommendations and decisions
• Ability to work at times in a changing environment with some level of ambiguity while able to self-manage and sometimes to tight timeframes, and under pressure

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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.