The Vacancy
We are recruiting for a 6 month secondment position to provides essential support to the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function, helping to deliver high-quality analytical outputs across the business. The successful candidate will work closely with the Finance Business partners to gain a deep understanding of FP&A processes, develop their analytical skillset, and contribute meaningfully to the forecasting and budgeting cycle.
The position offers a hands-on opportunity to expand knowledge in key areas such as variance and trend analysis, financial modelling, and monthly performance reviews. It involves both recurring and ad-hoc tasks, including weekly traffic and fuel reports, monthly revenue reconciliations and journal entries, and quarterly forecast and budget preparation.
Ideal candidates will be proactive, detail-oriented, and have strong Excel and time management skills. The role is highly collaborative, requiring effective communication with a range of internal stakeholders and external partners. This is a great opportunity for someone with a relevant degree who is looking to build a career in financial analysis within a dynamic and commercially focused environment.
Key Expected Outcomes:
* Gain understanding of the FP&A function and its role within the business by supporting the business partners
* Expand knowledge of variance analysis/trend analysis and its importance within the business
* Develop skills to challenge the information that you prepare or is presented to you
* Understand and be a part of the forecast/budget cycle
Key results area (How those Expected Outcomes will be achieved)
* On a weekly basis:
o Prepare the key traffic statistics tables
o Prepare the concession revenue report
o Prepare the fuel analysis report
o Adhoc team tasks
* On a monthly basis:
o Produce property income, media, concessions and car park journals and relevant revenue reconciliation
o Update of fuel revenue models and monthly analysis
o Maintain the input of the monthly actuals in the FP&A revenue and cost models
o Maintain car park market share analysis
o Preparing data tables which feed into the monthly financial and commercial analysis packs
o Review the P&L to identify prepayments and prepare journals accordingly
o Preparing monthly cost journals for the entire cost base
o Adhoc team tasks including further preparation of month end journals and variance analysis of the profit and loss
* Quarterly basis:
o Assist with the production of forecast and budgets templates and collation of information across the business
Knowledge
* Relevant degree or equivalent
Skills
* Strong time management skills and delivering to deadlines
* Strong excel skills
* Ability to identify and proactively solve problems
* Ability to forge successful & challenging relationships across the business
* Solid presentation skills and an ability to explain financial issues to a non-financial audience
* Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
The Company
London City Airport is one of the largest private sector employment sites in the London Borough of Newham. We offer a wide range of interesting and challenging career opportunities for the local community.
With over 2,000 employees here, working either directly for London City Airport Limited or for one of our concession partners, airlines, or other business partners on site, the scope for career satisfaction and progression is huge.
London City Airport is an Inclusive Employer.
At London City Airport we respect and celebrate each other's individual differences. We embrace all backgrounds and abilities of all team members and we work closely with our Inclusion Group A Voice for all to ensure we are an inclusive workplace.
Please note that we only ask candidates to go through the necessary security checks (Criminal Record Checks or CRC) once a position has been offered. If you are approached by a third-party site offering to manage the process for you, please ignore it.
London City Airport Ltd is not currently delivering a Graduate Training Programme but we do run a Work Experience Programme. Please click here to find out more.
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Location
As the only airport actually in London, London City Airport is less than a mile from the world-class events venue ExCeL London; three miles from Canary Wharf and six miles from the City of London.
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