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Job Description
The Senior Finance Business Partner will integrate Heathrow’s People and Planet priorities into external financial reporting, financial planning, and processes. Key responsibilities include embedding sustainability within Finance, managing external sustainability financial reporting, supporting climate-related disclosures, maintaining high reporting standards, and adapting to International Sustainability Standards Board requirements, such as quantifying climate-related risks and opportunities.
This role collaborates with Carbon, Communications, and Sustainability teams to develop strong business cases and incorporate sustainability into all areas of Finance, investment cycles, and planning. These efforts ensure Heathrow’s external commitments align with its strategic business plan to achieve People and Planet objectives.
As a newly formed position, the role is ideal for a self-starter who is motivated by a technically challenging and purpose driven agenda, with experience in business partnering and external reporting.
Responsibilities
- Providing strategic business partnering to the Communications and Sustainability teams, ensuring consistent evaluation of business cases to deliver meaningful value and strategic objectives, strategic planning and investments in our sustainability strategy.
- Managing and developing Heathrow’s financial external reporting requirements. This includes the continued development of Heathrow’s climate-related disclosures in line with new International Sustainability Standards Board accounting standards.
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders across the business (e.g., Sustainability, Financial control, Business Planning & Treasury and Business Services).
- Ensuring all necessary accounting and financial information is available to support the management in making business/commercial decisions and be proactive in the communication of company accounting policies including guidance on practical application within the specific business context.
Qualifications
- Strong business partnering and influencing skills gained through working in a Senior/Finance Business Partnering position
- Prior experience of delivering sustainability reporting for external financial reporting purposes
- Strong professional written and verbal communication skills with high attention to detail
- Dealing with non-finance colleagues and influencing them to add financial value to the business and minimise risk
- Adept at developing strong business cases with both financial and non-financial benefits
Ideally, you’ll also have:
- Technical accounting experience
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.
About the Team
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.
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