Senior Finance Business Partner in London

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.

Our rewards include competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. We offer performance-based annual bonuses, generous annual leave allowances, market-leading pensions, 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, providing varied learning and development opportunities.

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. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Equal Opportunities: As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger. Heathrow is an accessible place to work, championing inclusivity and celebrating individuality.

In the Finance team, 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.

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.

• 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

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.