Finance Asset Manager

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.

As the UK’s only hub airport and the best-connected airport in the world, Heathrow connects the UK to global growth, enabling world-leading travel and trade connections. We have created a Finance Asset Management Team to support our vision to be an extraordinary airport fit for the future. We are seeking three Finance Asset Managers who will play a pivotal role in transforming and optimising the end-to-end Finance Asset Management process. The role has a dual responsibility: to seek out and drive improvements, lead asset management process design and implementation, strengthen controls and governance frameworks. The role will ensure compliance with accounting standards and statutory and regulatory reporting, executing the processes driving optimal utilisation of our assets from assurance of the accounting and cost allocation to providing financial analysis and insight to support business decision making.

Your role will involve:

• Leading the design and implementation of improved asset management processes, controls, and governance frameworks, ensuring risk mitigation.
• Identifying and implementing automation, simplification, and standardisation opportunities throughout the asset lifecycle.
• Developing, maintaining, and ensuring clarity in process documentation for asset management processes.
• Collaborating with cross-functional and external teams, acting as a sponsor and subject matter expert for asset management transformation initiatives.
• Executing and monitoring key financial controls, including accurate capitalisation, adjustments, and retirements, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and statutory and regulatory reporting.
• Maintaining the integrity and compliance of the Financial Asset Register and Regulatory Asset Base.
• Providing timely and accurate financial and performance reporting and insights to relevant stakeholders.

These Skills Are Essential:

• Qualified ACA (or equivalent) with strong experience in capital accounting and process improvement.
• Proven track record in process design and transformation, ideally within asset-intensive industries.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to build strong relationships across the business with excellent stakeholder management and change management capabilities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and use judgement, with the ability to challenge existing practices.
• Advanced Excel experience, and Intermediate Data analysis capabilities.

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.

Our rewards include 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.

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.

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.