NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights each year. It provides air traffic control services from two control centres supporting airports all around the UK, as well as a wide range of commercial solutions to over 30 countries internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.
Job Purpose:
Partner with a number of leadership teams across the UK P&L to provide financial management, support, expert advice, and consultancy on any financially related matters.
Support the Head of Finance, UK in being a thought leader in all business aspects across the UK P&L, helping to identify and drive pan P&L and pan NSL improvement activities.
This role supports delivery of the wider finance vision, seeking to shape the future of aviation as a trusted business partner focussed on efficiency, collaboration, and innovation, as well as leading by example on our values of Growth, Control and Challenge.
Other duties include:
- Improve the impact, and understanding, of financial reporting on business performance and the link to the delivery of business strategies
- Provide effective commercial procedures, or initiate change, to ensure key operational, commercial & financial targets are delivered
- Work with the business to build stretching business plans
- Support decision making on bid pricing which will be based on your financial modelling
- You will support the Head of Finance in respect of finance related business activity, driving efficiency and cost control, the NATS values, financial controls, and culture changes
- Work with Programmes teams to ensure material value business cases/commercial contracts balance affordability, deliverability, and benefits in line with our commitments to external stakeholders providing appropriate challenge to programme leads
- Support the business and where appropriate represent the Head of Finance in the commercial negotiation of material customer and supplier contracts, ensuring that financial elements of such are complete, unambiguous, adopt appropriate accounting treatments, are not unduly onerous, and are consistent with negotiated agreements and financial plans
- Mentor and support your team members to ensure they are appropriately motivated and developed to perform their role
Essential Skills and experience:
- A qualified accountant, either ACA, ACCA, or CIMA, with relevant post qualification experience
- Experience working in a rapidly changing environment and comfortable proposing, justifying, initiating, and implementing change
- Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting complex financial data and concepts to senior staff
- Utilise analytical skills beyond traditional functions of finance, to deal with a broad range of commercial issues
- A proactive self-starter, able to deliver results and take initiative in solving problems
- Confidence to challenge and persuade key stakeholders, to build relationships achieve business objectives, maintaining personal and professional convictions
Additional vacancy information:
We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally. In addition to a competitive salary that’s regularly reviewed, you’ll also benefit from a wide range of other benefits which includes generous leave entitlement, a market-leading defined contribution pension scheme, a range of voluntary benefits and retail discounts, wellness support and a comprehensive learning and development offering
If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.
