Finance Manager - Central Costs Payroll

easyJet; Luton; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

easyJet, a leading UK-based low-cost airline, seeks a qualified finance professional to own overhead and payroll accounting within the Central Costs team. You will ensure accurate reporting, strong controls, and regulatory compliance across the organisation.

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager Central Costs, you will collaborate with finance colleagues and business stakeholders to deliver timely, trusted insights that support informed decision-making.

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA, ACCA, or CIMA with post-qualification experience.
• Experience with overhead and payroll accounting in a large organisation.
• Strong focus on financial controls and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to drive process improvements and efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Managing central cost and overhead accounting activities across multiple cost categories.
• Overseeing payroll accounting processes to ensure accurate and compliant financial reporting.
• Reviewing payroll journals, accruals, provisions, and adjustments per accounting standards.
• Ensuring payroll costs, taxes, benefits, and deductions are correctly recorded in the general ledger.
• Completing and reviewing payroll balance sheet reconciliations and expense reconciliations.
• Developing and enhancing monthly reporting to improve quality, speed, and insight.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting, and month-end close for overhead cost centres.
• Ensuring compliance with tax, pension, social security, and other statutory requirements.
• Supporting payroll-related audits, regulatory reviews, and control assessments.

Skills

Overhead accounting

Payroll accounting

Financial controls

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Job description

We are easyJet – a £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easyJet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.

We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

What makes us easyJet? Our Promise Behaviours - we are Safe, Bold, Welcoming and Challenging. Four Behaviours. One Spirit. One easyJet.

READ ON IF YOU

• Are a qualified ACA, ACCA, or CIMA finance professional with relevant post-qualification experience.
• Enjoy combining financial control, reporting, analysis, and stakeholder management.
• Have experience managing overheads, payroll accounting, or complex finance processes in a large organisation.
• Thrive on improving processes, strengthening controls, and driving efficiencies.
• Can be in our fantastic Luton head office 3 x per week.

THE TEAM

You’ll join our Record to Report (R2R) Finance team, supporting the delivery of accurate accounting, reporting, and financial control across easyJet’s Central Costs. Working closely with finance colleagues and business stakeholders, the team plays a key role in ensuring overhead costs are accurately recorded, governed, and understood, providing trusted insight that supports effective decision-making across the business.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager Central Costs, you’ll take ownership of overhead accounting activities across the organisation, ensuring accurate reporting, strong financial controls, and compliance with accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements.

This role combines financial control, payroll accounting oversight, reporting, forecasting, and continuous improvement. You’ll work with a broad range of stakeholders, helping ensure financial information is accurate, timely, and delivers meaningful insight to the business.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Managing central cost and overhead accounting activities across multiple cost categories.
• Overseeing payroll accounting processes to ensure accurate and compliant financial reporting.
• Reviewing payroll journals, accruals, provisions, and adjustments in line with accounting standards.
• Ensuring payroll costs, taxes, benefits, and deductions are correctly recorded within the general ledger.
• Completing and reviewing payroll balance sheet reconciliations and expense reconciliations.
• Developing and enhancing monthly reporting to improve quality, speed, and insight.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting, and month-end close activities for overhead cost centres.
• Ensuring compliance with tax, pension, social security, and other statutory requirements.
• Supporting payroll-related audits, regulatory reviews, and control assessments.