Head of Finance

Introduction
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.

Job Description
The Head of Finance, Business Planning will develop Heathrow's short to medium term plan to ensure its continued successful growth and profitability, lead regulatory finance activities to secure an optimal regulatory settlement and co-lead the ongoing planning systemisation efforts as business owner.

They role-holder will conduct environmental scans/benchmarking, organizational positioning analyses and other studies as appropriate. Through planning processes they will coordinate input from all major business units through the Finance Business Partnering team to facilitate the integration of individual business unit plans with the corporate plan. They will connect strategy with financial planning. They will work closely with HPMO to leverage Heathrow's Benefit Management Framework to enable and facilitate periodic reviews of achievements and performance vs. strategic plans

Your role will involve

• Leading short to medium term business planning, setting targets for medium term to budget activities to inform and influence strategic corporate choices at Executive and Shareholder level
• Leading related medium-term and short-term financial modelling activities continuously driving improvements of tools ensuring rigorous governance and assurance of modelling output.
• Leading regulatory finance activities partnering with the Regulation team to ensure Heathrow optimises its regulatory settlement to drive value creation
• Playing a critical part in Heathrow's planning systemisation to enable the airport to transition to automated planning
• Driving collaboration and constructive challenge with Finance Directors in shaping the plan to ensure the business plan is ambitious, deliverable and value accretive
• Leading, developing, coaching and motivating a team of finance professionals to deliver financial excellence for the business f) Build excellent working relationships with Finance Directors, other heads of and well as with Executive Directors and their respective leadership teams.

These Skills Are Essential

• Qualified accountant, CFA or qualified by experience with extensive managerial experience operating at an operational and strategic level and/or corporate finance.
• Strong influencer and communicator with the ability to structure and deliver persuasive arguments at Director, Executive Director and Shareholder levels.
• Demonstrable ability to learn from and adapt to environment in order to deliver results.
• Wide-ranging knowledge and experience of global aviation industry or other capital intensive industries advantageous
• Strong leadership skills with a demonstrable track record of leading high-performance teams toward the successful attainment of challenging goals

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 Sustainable Travel Guide 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.