Senior Finance Business Partner

As a Senior Finance Business Partner at Heathrow, you play a pivotal role in shaping the financial strategy that underpins the airport’s success. You will provide insightful financial support to our Development team, helping to inform, influence, and challenge key business decisions. Working closely with directors and senior leaders, you will deliver pragmatic, hands-on financial guidance across a diverse portfolio of capital programmes and projects.

You will build strong, day-to-day partnerships with your stakeholders, while also contributing to longer-term strategic priorities. In this fast-paced and complex environment, you’ll be a trusted advisor, offering sound judgement, constructive challenge, and clear financial insight.

Responsibilities

• Business Partner with the relevant department up to Director level to influence delivery of financial plans aligned with business strategy and provide value adding insight and analysis.
• Develop capital investment appraisals (IRR / NPV analysis), challenging the cost base and its drivers, evaluating options, review the financial modelling and present for business reviews.
• Work in collaboration with the Programme Management Office to produce management business plans, budgets and reforecasts of specific capital programmes.
• Identify risks & opportunities to the budget from capital programmes and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and reporting practices.
• Oversee financial assurance activities and funding queries for capital programmes.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with post-qualification experience
• Knowledge of capital investment appraisal and business case development
• Advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Oracle ERP skills.
• Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex information clearly
• Track record of delivering results in a dynamic environment
• Business Partnering, Commercial or FP&A experience

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Experience within a relevant industry
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks and impacts on financial planning

#LI-Hybrid

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.

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.