Head of Finance, Expansion Business Partnering in London

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.

We are seeking a Head of Finance – Expansion Business Partnering to support the Expansion Programme in driving sustainable value and optimising financial performance. As a pivotal member of the Expansion Leadership Team, you will bring experience of designing robust financial processes, delivering insightful analysis, and of influencing cross-functional teams to achieve strategic outcomes.

You will lead a high-performing team to ensure accurate reporting, strong governance, and rigorous financial evaluation of capital investments, while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Your expertise will support business case appraisal, investment prioritisation, and the delivery of long-term business plans, as well as foster a culture of continuous improvement and automation.

This role offers the opportunity to collaborate across the business and shape financial management of Heathrow's £40bn mega-project, ensuring every decision contributes to our strategic goals and regulatory obligations.

Your role will involve:

• Providing strategic business partnering by delivering insight, analysis, and challenge to support effective decision-making, cost control, and opportunity identification.
• Leading governance, controls, and high-quality financial reporting to ensure accuracy, compliance, and robust financial management across the business area.
• Owning and driving the planning cycle, including targets, assumptions, risks/opportunities, and commentary, ensuring plans are challenging yet achievable.
• Overseeing investment appraisal, business case evaluation, and benefits tracking, including prioritising capital choices and reviewing projects against ex‑ante and ex‑post performance.
• Collaborating across Finance and the wider business to align capital allocation with long term financial constraints, offering expert advice and helping stakeholders understand impacts in a capital constrained environment.

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.
• Demonstrable experience of managing large capital investment programmes.
• 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 to deliver results.
• Knowledge and experience of global aviation industry or other capital-intensive industries.
• Strong leadership skills with a demonstrable track record of leading high-performance teams.

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.

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.

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.

Heathrow's Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

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.