Specialist

Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Voluntary and Community Organisations Limited; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading business services provider in Glasgow is seeking a skilled Finance Specialist. This role involves processing financial data, conducting analyses, and maintaining customer relationships. The candidate should possess strong analytical and interpersonal skills, with a background in dynamic environments. Competitive salaries and extensive benefits, including performance bonuses, are offered. Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid models, foster a supportive and inclusive work culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Performance-based bonuses

Private health insurance

Generous annual leave allowances

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to question processes for efficiency.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Process manual journals for accurate financial data.
• Analyze Profit & Loss Accounts against budgets.
• Provide commentary on financial performance and trends.

Skills

High numeracy and strong analytical skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Flexibility and self-motivation

Experience in fast-paced environments

Job description

Location: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

Overview

Finance Specialist role at Heathrow’s Business Services Centre in Glasgow. Involves processing manual journals and ensuring financial data accuracy. Requires strong analytical and numeracy skills. Position offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and performance-based bonuses.

Your role will involve

• Processing manual journals to ensure the accuracy of financial data
• Understanding of transactional flows to provide analysis and insight on Profit & Loss Accounts versus budgeting
• Commentary on Financial Performance and Balance Sheet reconciliations. Identifying trends and providing reporting to key business stakeholders
• Identifying trends in variance analysis to identify risks and opportunities and support the preparation of functional budgets
• Maintaining 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

These skills are essential

• High numeracy and strong analytical skills
• Curiosity and the drive to question processes to become more efficient
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively at all levels of stakeholders both written and verbally
• Flexibility, self-motivation, and strong organisational skills. The ability to work on own initiative, without close supervision 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

About us

There’s something so special about working for the world’s most iconic airport. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities with no end of exciting prospects to explore. A team that feels like family, a place where you belong.

Working for Heathrow 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

Your contractual place of work will be the Heathrow Business Services Centre in Glasgow so you'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to work. We also have some hybrid roles with a working approach which offers the opportunity for colleagues 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.

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from everybody. 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, and through our diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

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