As a Finance Analyst within the Business Planning & Treasury team, you will play a critical role in developing, maintaining, and governing Heathrow's long‑term planning models. You will support the delivery of Heathrow's business plan, regulatory analysis, and structured scenario planning. Working closely with a Finance Manager, you will help shape financial assumptions, validate economic impacts, and influence strategic decisions through a regulatory, aeronautical, and financial lens. You will contribute to building and maintaining the "single source of truth" for all financial modelling used in long‑term business planning, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and governance. Strong collaboration across the organisation and a consistent approach to model integrity will be central to your success. Being a trusted strategic partner to the Business, ensuring Heathrow delivers maximum sustainable value through its long‑term planning. We have two roles available; one permanent and one secondment. Responsibilities

Operating, enhancing, and interrogating Heathrow's long‑term business planning models, including running sensitivities and scenario analysis to support strategic, economic, and regulatory decision‑making. Supporting annual and long‑term planning cycles, including regulatory submissions, aeronautical charge modelling, and finance‑led insight to stakeholders. Partnering with teams across Heathrow to source, validate, and reconcile inputs feeding into financial models. Ensuring alignment to regulatory frameworks and business planning assumptions. Maintaining full documentation and audit trails for all assumptions, ensuring financial models meet governance and compliance standards. Producing high‑quality modelling outputs, regulatory evidence, and data‑driven narratives to support internal reviews and external disclosures.

Qualifications

Experience operating, analysing, and improving Excel‑based financial models, ideally within a regulated, infrastructure, or capital‑intensive environment. Project management experience with strong attention to detail, ability to prioritise, and proactive stakeholder engagement. Strong analytical mindset capable of interpreting complex financial and regulatory information, ensuring compliance and model accuracy. Excellent communication skills with the ability to distil modelling outputs and regulatory insights for senior internal and external stakeholders.

Ideally you'll also have:

Advanced financial modelling experience, including model design, optimisation, and development of forecasting tools for regulatory and long‑term planning. Advanced Excel proficiency, including use of scenario management, audit tools, and structured modelling best practices. A finance qualification (or part‑qualified CIMA, ACCA, ACA), ideally with exposure to regulated economic frameworks or infrastructure finance.

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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