Finance Specialist - Month End Team

Join our Finance Service Delivery Team in Glasgow and play a pivotal role in shaping the financial landscape of Heathrow. As a Finance Specialist, you'll be at the heart of our mission, ensuring the precision of month-end deliveries and upholding the financial integrity that aligns with Heathrow's ambitious vision. Your expertise will guide the application and interpretation of company policies, ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreements.

You'll be a guardian of process excellence, continuously updating and following rigorous controls. Your contributions will resonate through the Balanced Business Scorecard, driving core business strategies and validating operational efficiency with timely data insights.

The position is located in Glasgow and may require some travel to Heathrow.

Responsibilities

• Understanding of transactional flows to provide analysis and insight on Profit & Loss Accounts versus budgeting.


• Preparing, posting and reviewing of manual journals within the ledger.


• Commentary on Monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations, identifying trends and providing reporting to key business stakeholders.


• Understanding the drivers of manual journals and utilising this to identify process improvements.


• Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders within Finance Service Delivery and Heathrow, ensuring effective communication and resolution of queries to uphold strong professional relationships.


• Demonstrating flexibility to multi-skill across transactional service duties, including participation in projects and working groups for personal development and to meet business outcomes.


• Developing personal knowledge and skills, sharing updates on policy or process changes, and support the Team Manager in fostering a culture of engagement and development.


• Maintaining and nurturing key customer relationships to ensure a value-add service, with regular engagement between Heathrow and Finance Service Delivery to promote an integrated team approach across locations.
  
  High numeracy and strong analytical skills.


• Ability to review and provide insightful commentary on P&L and balance sheet reconciliations and deliver month-end reporting to stakeholders.


• Curiosity and the drive to question processes to become more efficient.


• Experience with performance frameworks like the Balanced Business Scorecard to contribute to operational efficiency and effectiveness.


• Flexibility and self-motivation, with ability to work on own initiative and without close supervision.


• Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively at all levels of stakeholders both written and verbally.


• Strong organisational skills, with ability to plan, prioritise and work to deadlines.


• Experience of working in a fast-paced changing environment.


Ideally, you'll also have:

• Knowledge of Financial Accounting


• Ability to influence and persuade others