Head of Corporate Finance

As Head of Corporate Finance, you will be at the heart of Heathrow’s financial leadership, shaping the airport’s long-term financing strategy and ensuring sustainable growth. You will lead on capital structure, funding, and financing decisions that underpin Heathrow’s ongoing transformation and investment programmes. Reporting to the Director of Treasury and Corporate Finance, you will provide strategic insight and financial direction to the Executive Committee and across the wider business, supporting one of the UK’s most complex and high-profile financial environments. 

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of finance professionals to deliver on Heathrow’s corporate finance objectives.
• Shape and implement the airport’s capital structure and financing strategy to support business as usual and long-term expansion goals.
• Partner with executive leadership and external stakeholders, including investors, banks, and credit rating agencies, to maintain financial resilience and investor confidence.
• Oversee financial modelling, capital structure planning, and liquidity management to optimise performance and governance compliance.
• Influence strategic decision-making through expert financial analysis and insight.
• Ensure all corporate financing activities adhere to regulatory and compliance frameworks. 

Qualifications

• Comprehensive understanding of corporate finance, capital markets, and financing instruments.
• Demonstrable experience managing complex funding strategies in large-scale or regulated organisations.
• Exceptional analytical and financial modelling skills.
• Excellent communication and influencing ability at all organisational levels, including senior executives and external partners.
• Proven leadership in developing and motivating high-performing finance teams.
• Strong commercial and strategic judgement. 

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Experience within regulated infrastructure or the transport sector.
• Strong understanding of credit rating methodologies. 

#LI-Hybrid

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.

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.