finance business partner heathrow airport travel within uk car or allowance benefits company swissport in the united kingdom is part of the larger family of swissport international swissport international provides ground services for over 116 million passengers and 5 million tonnes of cargo a year on behalf of some client companies with its workforce of around personnel swissport is active at airports in 38 countries on five continents to keep in line with their strategy and support the business plans a new exciting requirement has been created in finance to support the management team across their heathrow cargo and ground handling operations purpose of the role working as a key member of the senior managment team you will take a lead in supporting the management team with financial forecasting budget planning and achieving the business financial targets to maximise your analytical ability you will support the central commercial team in costing and pricing of new and existing business this position represents an excellent opportunity to move into a highly financial and commercial role and work closely with the management of a growing and demanding operation we are interested in candidates who can excel in a fast and ambitious people business person you must be able to demonstrate a track record of personal development whilst having the capacity to grow ideally qualified cimaaccaaca excellent proven analytical ability proven track record of leading motivating and developing a team commercially astute and able to challenge and communicate recommendations across senior management proven written and verbal communications good commercial operational finance management experience in a high volume low margin service industry ideally suit someone in a logistics or b2b customer centric role good knowledge of microsoft office and operational expertise of a mainstream erp package ideally sapsap bw responsible good time management and a can do attitude with an innovative and hands approach are a prerequisite knowledge of a b2b service sector is seen as an added benefit key responsibilities to be a major part of the designated operational project plan tracking progress against forecast analyse management and business information to required timescales produce and present accurate and readily understood period end management information to the managers directors of the organisation lead manage and develop a highly effective and efficient finance team project and analyse budget and quarterly forecast in the necessary format analysis and preparation of actual results on a monthly basis improve awareness of finance and cost revenue benefits as a factor involved in the making of business decisions drive kpi performance measurements through every level of the organisation and identify areas for potential improvements and where necessary proactively support introduce any operational changes support the new business and organic business costing process with the commercial team no agencies all thrid party applications will be forwarded to harbury consulting who are the retained partner for swissport and all direct responses will be forwarded to harbury consulting for their attention if you feel you have