Finance Manager - Fuel (12 Month FTC)

easyJet; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major airline is seeking a Finance Manager for its Fuel team in London. This key role involves financial planning, reporting, and analysis, ensuring business partnership with multiple stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have qualified accountancy experience, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to provide financial insight. This position offers a competitive salary, up to 20% bonus, hybrid working model, and great staff travel benefits.

Benefits

Up to 20% bonus

25 days holiday

7% pension

Life Assurance

Flexible benefits package

Excellent staff travel benefits

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with experience in complex entities.
• Excellent grasp of variance analysis and key drivers.
• Ability to manage time across various tasks and projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide business partnering and financial ownership in Fuel.
• Support delivery of Cost per Seat (CPS) target.
• Generate monthly analysis and commentary on financial activities.

Skills

Qualified accountant with at least 3 years post qualified experience

Excellent analytical skills

Ability to summarize and communicate key issues

Strong commercial acumen

Excellent Excel skills

Job description

Description

FINANCE MANAGER - FUEL (12 Month FTC)

As a key member of the Fuel team, this role will report into the Senior Manager - Fuel Strategy and ESG providing complete financial ownership and delivery of financial planning, reporting and analysis for Fuel and is a key business partnering role.

Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to be the end to end finance contact for Fuel and provide complete financial management and ownership for these areas. The role provides a business partnership between the business owners and the financial performance of easyJet. This includes month end deliverables, Strategic and Annual planning, forecasts, projects and providing insightful analysis for the business. The role provides both current (actuals) and future performance analysis and gives guidance on Forecasts, Budgets and 5yr plans.

Job Accountabilities

Business Partnering: Provides a true Business Partner framework to within the wider Fuel team, along with other teams across the business such Treasury/Flight Op's/Sustainability/Fuel Procurement/Accounting and Controls/Central FP&A, ensuring that the business owners are supported with the right insight and information at all times.

• Budget and Outlook
• Managing the cost programme strategy and delivery
• Review and comment on monthly reporting and analysis
• Weekly P&L re-forecasting
• Business case evaluation and decision support
• 5 year plan forecast
• Ad-hoc projects

Business Performance and Analytical support

Ownership for monthly detailed analysis and insight into the costs which can be used to drive business performance and improve the cost base. Responsibility for accurate weekly P&L forecasting into consolidated model. Driving confidence in numbers and providing insight into risks and opportunities.

• Supporting Fuel Operations in driving continuous improvements in the Operational and driving improvements in Finance processes
• Driving creation of budget pack detailing variances and strategy for presentation to senior management
• Provides financial evaluation and acts as lead decision support finance manager for ad-hoc projects and cost saving initiatives
• Reviewing Month End output from Accounting and Controls team to ensure accuracy of reporting activities, and understanding of monthly performance, supporting A&C team where necessary
• Generates full month end analysis detailing variances to plan and tracking the effectiveness of cost saving initiatives for Fuel
• Responsible for the cost programme initiatives commentary and accurate reporting of all initiatives

People Leadership, Relationships and Influence

As a member of the Core Finance team, you will have responsibility for maintaining effective cross functional relationships and providing subject matter expertise and building relationships with a diverse and demanding set of stakeholders.

• Maintaining effective cross functional relationships
• Providing subject matter expertise and building relationships with a diverse and demanding set of stakeholders

Key Performance Indicators & Financial Targets

Support delivery of Cost per Seat (CPS) target. Month End insight and budget variance analysis completed on time and with accurate and clear explanations of movements. Deliver key insight into performance of Fuel and ensure latest view is reflected in the rolling forecast.

Requirements of the Role

Competencies

Ownership and Delivery. Has a clear focus to drive delivery of results, working to targets, reviewing progress and adapting their plans accordingly, motivating themselves and the team to achieve. Business Performance. Understands business and external environment, is cost conscious and understands the longer term perspective and implications of decisions. Innovation and Change. Is open to new ways of doing things and questions existing approaches, views change as an opportunity, comfortable working in a dynamic and ambiguous environment. Building Relationships. Expresses ideas confidently and clearly, builds positive and constructive relationships with others, gets to know colleagues within their own team and supports them to ensure team goals are achieved. Developing talent. Looks at new challenges as an opportunity to learn, takes ownership for own development and is aware of their strengths and weaknesses, looks for feedback from others about own performance.

Key Skills Required

• Qualified accountant with at least 3 years post qualified experience
• Ability to embrace large, complex, preferably fast moving, entities
• Excellent analytical skills with an ability to demonstrate an excellent grasp of variance analysis and the key drivers
• Summarise and communicate key issues from high volumes of data with a high attention to detail
• Manage own time across variety of tasks and projects to deliver to deadlines
• Ability to deliver the level of detail and insight required to support the business
• Proven ability to digest and interpret accounting complexity across balance sheet, cash flow and P&L
• Able to communicate and challenge effectively with key stakeholders at all seniority levels in the organisation both finance and non-financial
• A proactive team player
• An ability to work on own initiative, and has the confidence to offer solutions
• A true self starter, with high levels of motivation and enthusiasm
• Excellent excel skills (up to basic macros) and Planning Analytics experience preferred
• Strong commercial acumen
• Aviation experience preferred but not essential
• Proven experience in a business partner environment, in a same or similar EMEA or global organisation with multiple business units and diverse workforce

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits

Location & Hours of Work

This full time role will be based in Luton on a hybrid working model and will be 40 hours per week.

At easyJet, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse customers we serve across Europe. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds. If you require specific adjustments or support during the application or recruitment process, such as extra time for assessments or accessible interview locations, please contact us at [e-mail]. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure accessibility and accommodation.