Commercial & Compliance Analyst
Job description & person specification
Title: Commercial & Compliance Analyst
(Minimum 6 months secondment)
Department: Commercial
Reports to: Head of Revenue and Strategy
Indirect reports to: None
Work patterns: Minimum 6 months secondment. Monday to Friday unless otherwise required
Are you looking to make an impact within the travel industry and help drive commercial revenues by providing insights while improving internal control over financial reporting? Are you interested in the airport business and its various revenue streams? Do you want to join a company where you can genuinely make a difference? If your answer is yes, we want you!
Our Commercial team has an exciting opportunity for you to put your business acumen and analytical skills to the test, allowing you to develop a bespoke career to suit your strengths and interests. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about providing analytical insights, maintaining business tools, and ensuring financial compliance.
In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 25 days holiday + bank holidays, free on-site gym, market-leading flexible company pension scheme, BUPA health insurance, discounted rail season tickets, and eligibility to a profit-sharing scheme after two years. So what are you waiting for? Make your mark in the travel industry and let your career take off at London Luton Airport.
Job purpose summary:
The what: The Revenue & Strategy team is responsible for reporting, forecasting, business intelligence, and analytical support across the entire commercial team.
The how: The team delivers forecasting capabilities while maintaining business-critical tools to ensure strong governance of commercial contracts.
The role: In this role, you will help the entire commercial department in delivering analysis and business intelligence tools to drive insights and improve further commercial revenues.
You will be responsible for maintaining commercial contract databases, ensuring efficient contract management, and improving further governance across the department. You will play a central role in providing commercial contract governance while ensuring sound compliance with internal financial controls.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities:
Help develop BI tools: assist the Head of Revenue & Strategy and the Commercial Analytics Manager in the implementation of Business Intelligence initiatives
- Own the commercial contract databases and drive improvements in compliance:
To own, maintain, and improve centralised commercial contract databases
To maintain business-critical contract and board paper databases, enabling the commercial team to plan, renegotiate, or retender upcoming contracts in a timely manner
Support the existing owners of ICFR controls in commercial compliance
Provide analytical support throughout the commercial department
To work in collaboration with the rest of the analysts, supporting the entire commercial directorate across various projects and presentations
To prepare internal presentations for senior management, supporting the delivery of business cases, tenders and commercial negotiations
Any other tasks, appropriate to the post, which may be required from time to time.
Knowledge, Skills and experience:
A successful candidate for this role will have:
Naturally analytical with a minimum of two years within an analytical or accounting role
Organised person with strong attention to detail
Previous experience in reading through and interpreting commercial contracts
Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Power BI is desirable
Can prioritise and adapt to a rapidly changing environment
Person specification:
Excellent communication skills: both verbal and written, in English
Autonomous self-starter: self-motivated individual who takes initiative and can work both autonomously or collaboratively to drive desired outcomes.
Team player: confident and willing to work as part of a small team
About London Luton Airport
LLA is one of the UK’s largest airports and handled over 16 million passengers in 2023. LLA has recently concluded a £160 million transformation investment, transforming the terminal environment with a 140% increase in available retail/catering, and LLA now has the second fastest airport rail connection to Central London.
This job description is intended to give an appreciation of the role and the range of duties and responsibilities to be undertaken. It does not attempt to detail every activity. Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed on an ongoing basis. The post holder will be required at all times to perform any other reasonable tasks, as requested by the Line Manager, in order to meet the operational needs of the business.
For any further information, please contact the Human Resources department at [email protected]. London Luton Airport Operations Ltd collects your personal information when you submit your application. For more details about the personal information LLA collects, how we collect it, why we need it, what we do with it, how long we keep it, and what your rights are, please see our privacy notice at www.london-luton.co.uk/privacy-notice.
LLA is committed to fostering, promoting, and preserving a culture of diversity, equality, and inclusion as we carry out our mission. We will always be respectful and seek to learn from those different from ourselves. We strive to be an equal opportunity employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee has a negative experience for being who they are. We welcome all applications!
To apply:
If you wish to apply for this role, please send your CV that summarises your knowledge, skills, and experience within the context of the Commercial & Compliance Analyst job description to [email protected], using the reference CCA0801 in the subject line. In the body of the email, please make sure to include the following:
- Current and expected salary
- Notice period/availability to start
- Right to work in the UK / sponsorship requirements
- Whether you are happy to travel to Luton three days a week