Bank Payments Supervisor

easyJet; Luton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading airline company located in Luton is seeking a motivated Bank Payments Supervisor to coordinate external payments and manage bank accounts across Europe. The successful candidate will ensure payment accuracy, monitor unusual banking activities, and maintain relationships with banks. Strong communication skills and attention to detail are essential. This full-time role offers competitive benefits, including a base salary, bonus, and staff travel perks.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Up to 20% bonus

25 days holiday

Life Assurance

Flexible benefits package

Excellent staff travel benefits

Qualifications

• Experience of operating in a fast-paced environment.
• Must have a real drive to change and challenge ways of working.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate external payments made by easyJet.
• Maintain full control of the cashier function and complete all payments daily.
• Monitor banking systems to identify unusual activity.

Skills

Experience in a fast-paced environment

Excellent communication skills

Familiar with payment processes (BACS, CHAPS)

Attention to detail

Intermediate to advanced MS Office Skills

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION
Bank Payments Supervisor

When it comes to innovation and achievement there are few organisations with a better track record. Join us and you’ll be able to play a big part in our highly successful, fast-paced business that opens up Europe to people so they can exercise their get-up-and-go. With over 330 aircraft flying over 1000 routes to more than 35 countries, we’re the UK’s largest airline, the fourth largest in Europe and the tenth largest in the world. Flying over 70 million passengers a year, we employ over 17,000 people. Its big-scale and we’re still growing.

TEAM

The banking team are a team of 6 and sits within the core finance transactions team compromising of Revenue, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable and Banking.

The Banking teams’ function is to ensure the business payments are processed and accounted for on time, where that be Accounts payables, customer service refunds, tax, payroll, Treasury and other adhoc business payments. Every payment processed for the business runs through the Banking team.

JOB PURPOSE

> The Bank Payments Supervisor is responsible for co-ordinating external payments made by easyJet.

> The role facilitates payments through several bank accounts across different European countries and reports directly to the Banking Manager in the Financial Accounting team.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

> Maintaining full control of the cashier function, completing all payments each day.

> Ensuring that each payment is assessed by its urgency and placed on a high value payment run (CHAPS) or a low value payment run (BACS), ensuring costs are kept to a minimum.

> Monitoring the banking systems throughout the day to identify any unusual activity on the accounts and rectifying any issues as early as possible.

> Keeping rejections down, ensuring the payables team are informed of rejected payments and helping them to correct details for a straight through processing in the second submission.

> Being the main point of contact between the bank and the business with regards to payments processed, ensuring that all payments have been distributed to authorisers and submitted before the relevant cut off times.

> Responsible for maintaining all credit cards in the business and issuing any new applications to the bank.

> Measuring the number of manual payments from around the business monthly and looking at ways to educate the business of cost saving around the payments function.

> Reconciliation of month end bank accounts and providing explanation for any outstanding items.

> Production of the daily morning funding of accounts report and the afternoon funding report ensuring all accounts are in credit.

COMPETENCIES

> Ownership and Delivery. Motivates self to work hard and deliver results in line with expectations . Able to make effective decisions even when under pressure .

> Customer and Shareholder Value. Identifies possible risks that may impact our business success and raise these with their manager . Communicates the needs of stakeholders and feedback from them to the team

> Business Performance. Understands the easyJet business model and the key metrics used to measure success .

> Innovation and Change. Questions and challenges the current way of doing things within their team . Comfortable working in a changing environment and is positive when communicating new developments.

> Building Relationships. B uilds strong relationships with people and teams that are directly linked to their own success

> Developing Talent

Proactively looks for new opportunities to learn and develop, using all resources available to them

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED

> Experience of operating in a fast-paced environment

> Excellent communication skills

> Familiar with the different payment processes e.g., BACS, CHAPS, and urgency of business-critical payment. Experience of working with multiple foreign currencies will be an advantage, especially international payment processing.

> Must be someone who has a real drive to change and challenging ways of working

> Have a challenge mindset and the confidence to discuss and raise issues when they arise

> Someone who demonstrates excellent attention to detail

> Manage own time across variety of tasks and projects to deliver to deadlines

> Strong planning /organisation skills

> Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information

> Communicate with both finance and non-finance contacts to make business critical payments

> Intermediate to advanced MS Office Skills – including extensive knowledge of Excel

BENEFITS

> Competitive base salary

> Up to 20% bonus

> 25 days holiday

> BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes

> 5% pension

> Life Assurance

> Flexible benefits package

> Excellent staff travel benefits

LOCATION & HOURS OF WORK

This full-time role will be based in Luton, and will be 40 hours per week, with some occasional travel required.

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