Finance Analyst - Glasgow

Heathrow Airport; Paisley; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Heathrow Airport is seeking a Finance Analyst to join its Financial Reporting team based in Glasgow. This role is pivotal in preparing comprehensive financial reports, conducting analyses on performance against budgets, and presenting findings to senior stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have accounting qualifications and a strong ability to engage with stakeholders, using technology to drive improvements.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Annual performance bonuses

Generous annual leave

Market-leading pensions

Private health insurance

Wellbeing tools

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong analytic skills with ability to summarize large datasets.
• Experience analyzing Financial Statements.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze monthly financial reporting packs.
• Conduct in-depth variance analysis.
• Present financial performance to stakeholders.
• Identify and implement process efficiencies.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Part qualified / qualified accountant / QBE

Job description

Job Description

This is a Finance Analyst in the Financial Reporting team based in Glasgow. The purpose of this role is to prepare monthly financial reporting packs and provide insightful analysis to our Board and Executive Committee.

The Finance Analyst will work collaboratively with stakeholders across the business to conduct analysis of actual performance against budget and be comfortable in presenting this to senior stakeholders.

Additionally, this is an exciting time to join the team as the role will play a key part in the evolution of the team by utilising technology to drive process efficiencies and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Preparing and analysing monthly financial reporting packs for the Executive Committee and Board
• Conducting in-depth variance analysis and providing insightful commentary having worked closely for stakeholders across the business
• Presenting financial performance to a range of stakeholders
• Identifying and implementing process efficiencies, primarily through utilising available technology

Qualifications

• Part qualified / qualified accountant / QBE
• Able to demonstrate previous experience of analysing Financial Statements
• Strong analytic skills, with an ability to provide clear and concise information from large datasets
• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Evidence of engaging and building relationships with stakeholders across all levels

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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.