Finance Analyst - Capital Investment (Glasgow based)

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

Job summary

A leading international airport in Scotland is seeking a passionate Finance Analyst for a 12-month FTC role. This position involves supporting capital planning and investment appraisal while collaborating with business partners. Candidates should be qualified accountants with experience in Power BI reporting. The role offers flexible working arrangements, including hybrid options.

Benefits

Performance-based bonuses

Generous annual leave

Market-leading pensions

Private health insurance

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with relevant expertise.
• Experience with Power BI reporting and data visualization.
• Strong insight into accounting treatment, planning, and appraisal.

Responsibilities

• Support LTG capital programme with investment appraisal and financial assurance.
• Deliver analytical solutions and business intelligence tools.
• Manage financial risks and opportunities across the portfolio.

Skills

Power BI reporting

Analytical support

Stakeholder management

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent)

Job description

Job Description

The Strategy, Solutions and Capital Portfolio supports the overarching Heathrow capital plan to help deliver our strategic objectives. We are looking for passionate and driven Finance Analysts to work alongside the Long term Growth programme team and the wider Finance business partnering teams to ensure we are developing and prioritising investments at Heathrow to optimise the capital portfolio. In addition, the successful candidate will be an integral part of the long- and short-term capital planning and performance process.

We welcome applications from fully qualified accountants as well as those who are close to completing the qualification or qualified by experience, particularly if you bring a strong appetite for learning, continuous improvement, and a proactive mindset.

Please note this is 12 month FTC based in Glasgow.

Responsibilities

• Supporting Long Term Growth (LTG) capital programme on investment appraisal & financial assurance activities, and assisting the wider finance team in tracking and managing project investment appraisal activities.
• Delivering analytical solutions and Business Intelligence tools such as reports and dashboards on HAL's capital performance.
• Supporting portfolio/programme benefit analysis and reporting.
• Helping manage the project pipeline, supporting programmes to identify potential projects and prioritising these against the Heathrow benefits framework.
• Owning the financial appraisal & assurance models.
• Working across the business to understand and manage the portfolio's financial risks and opportunities.
• Liaising with and challenging/ influencing stakeholders within Finance and non-Finance functions, and externally where required, to enable Heathrow to deliver its value potential.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent), finalist or qualified by experience with relevant expertise.
• Experience with Power BI reporting and data visualisation.
• Experience in handling capital projects with strong insight into accounting treatment, planning, and appraisal to support monitoring and reporting metrics.
• Adept at providing business knowledge, analytical support, and clear presentation of financial and business information to non-finance stakeholders.

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.