Finance Analyst

Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Voluntary and Community Organisations Limited; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent employer in the aviation sector is seeking a financial analyst for their Heathrow Business Services Centre in Glasgow. The role involves monitoring budgets, preparing reports, and collaborating with different teams. Candidates should have experience in budget preparation, possess strong analytical skills, and ideally be a qualified accountant. This role offers competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional growth in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Performance-based bonuses

Annual leave allowances

Private health insurance

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in preparing functional budgets and analyzing financial data.
• Proven experience in a fast-paced working environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with all levels of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Monitor performance against budgets and track financial variances.
• Process manual journals to ensure accuracy of financial data.
• Prepare monthly reports and financial analysis for decision-making.
• Support development culture through coaching of team members.

Skills

Experience in budget preparation

Strong analytical skills

Data analysis using technology

Accounting knowledge

Ability to communicate with stakeholders

Flexibility and self-motivation

Education

Full or part qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA)

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Job description

Location: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time

Highlighted points for this job

Role involves monitoring performance against budgets and preparing monthly reports.

Requires experience in budget preparation and strong analytical skills.

Location is Heathrow Business Services Centre in Glasgow, UK.

Job offers competitive salaries, benefits, and learning and development opportunities.

Equal opportunities employer promoting diversity and inclusivity.

You will gain exposure across all levels of the business through responsibilities such as understanding sub-ledger processes, preparing monthly reports, and collaborating closely with both finance and non-finance teams. This role offers a fantastic platform to broaden your expertise and make a real impact!

We welcome applications from fully qualified accountants as well as those who are close to completing the qualification or qualified by experience, particularly if you bring a strong appetite for learning, continuous improvement, and a proactive mindset.

Your role will involve

• Monitoring performance against budgets, tracking both cost and revenue lines to highlight variances and provide 鲜analysis and Reporting Packs for month end.
• Processing manual journals to ensure the accuracy of financial data.
• Preparing functional budgets and conducting in‑depth analysis of financial data to provide insight to support strategic decision‑making.
• Supporting the execution of core R2R financial processes and accounting policies, ensuring consistency and clarity across the organisation to deliver robust and compliant financial and management reporting.
• Continuously supporting the refinement and enhancement of existing processes, challenging outputs to deliver relevant, value‑adding analysis for business use.
• Maintaining communications with key customers and business areas and continuously nurturing relationships to ensure the centre of excellence is maintained and continues to provide a value‑add service to the business.
• Supporting the Team Manager in development culture, through development and coaching of key team members.

These skills are essential

• Experience in budget preparation.
• Highly numerate with strong analytical skills.
• Data analysis and insight using up‑to‑date technology.
• Accounting knowledge, i.e. key accounting principles.
• Experience working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Self‑motivated and flexible team player, also comfortable working on own initiative.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, evidenced through communicating effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to adapt and embrace change.
• Ideally, you’ll also have:
• Full or part qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA$url or other where applicable).
• Experience of working with Oracle Fusion.

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 namoro to ensure 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俺也 ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you castles to be yourself, backing you expand 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 support you now andippines. As well as performance‑based annual bonuses and our longer‑term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also provide 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’llICAS 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.

We also have some hybrid roles that offer colleagues the opportunity to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing flexibility to work in an agile way while 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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