Senior Finance Business Partner, Expansion Capital Business Partnering

Description

The Senior Finance Business Partner, Expansion Capital Business Partnering plays a key role in bringing clarity and insight to business decision‑making across the Expansion Programme. The role focuses on formulating and evaluating strategic options, providing constructive challenge, and quantifying trade‑offs to enable the delivery of value. Working closely with cross‑functional teams, the postholder supports the Head of Finance, Expansion Business Partnering in influencing outcomes that maximise sustainable value, meet financial targets, and identify and mitigate financial risks. Colleagues across Heathrow will rely on this role for trusted financial advice on both tactical and strategic decisions, with immediate and long term impact.

Building and maintaining strong relationships with a broad range of stakeholders is critical to ensuring integrity and consistency in the evaluation of projects, financial performance, strategic planning, and business investments. This requires sophisticated stakeholder management, strong financial modelling and evaluation capabilities, and the confidence to operate across multiple teams at senior levels. During the early stages of Expansion mobilisation, the role will also support the development and implementation of robust financial processes, systems, and ways of working to enable effective and successful financial management.
 

Responsibilities

• Business partnering to provide insight and analysis to drive decisions
• Review and challenge cost base, drivers and identify opportunities
• Benchmarking performance – financial, non-financial vs. other airports/industries
• Investment analysis and benefits tracking
• Supporting and influencing key commercial and strategic decisions balancing customer service with cost/revenue
• Building strong relationships with key stakeholders such that key financial decisions are only taken with finance business partner advice & oversight
• Working with stakeholders to deliver meaningful value adding business cases
• Minimising risk to the business 

Qualifications

• Significant experience with business partnering Capital functions in comparable sized businesses
• Proven experience of dealing with non-Finance colleagues and influencing them to add financial value to the business and minimise risk
• Strong financial modelling skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Commercial outlook
• Fully Qualified Accountant, or Part Qualified with extensive QBE experience 
• Line management experience