Finance Manager - Projects %26 Change (12 Month FTC)

easyJet; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A major airline in Luton is seeking a Finance Manager to provide analytical support and business partnering in a dynamic environment. This full-time role requires a professional finance qualification and offers a competitive salary with a flexible benefits package. Ideal candidates are proactive team players with excellent communication skills and strong analytical abilities.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Up to 20% bonus

25 days holiday

Flexible benefits package

Excellent staff travel benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in business partnering within a large organization.
• Ability to manage a large, complex function.
• Strong variance analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective analytical support to the Senior Finance Manager.
• Create certainty in the Airline portfolio forecast.
• Support project delivery and financial management processes.

Skills

Professional finance qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Strong analytical skills

Excellent communication

Excellent Excel skills

Education

Relevant finance qualification

Job description

Overview

Finance Manager - Projects & Change (12 Month FTC)

TEAM

As a key member of the Investment Finance team, within Financial Planning & Analysis, this role reports to the Senior Finance Manager responsible for IT, Data & Change (ITD&C) and E-Commerce. The team partners with the ITD&C function (including the easyJet Airline change portfolio) and the E-Commerce team.

This role will directly support the Delivery & Change Director and the wider IT Leadership Team (ITDLT), offering exposure to senior stakeholders and a mix of project-based business partnering and FP&A with opportunities for strategic insight and value creation. The Finance Manager will work closely with senior non-finance stakeholders to support delivery of multiple priorities and collaborate with the broader Finance team on monthly management reporting and regular reforecasting for the Airline portfolio.

Location & Hours

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

Reasonable Adjustments

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Job Purpose

• Provide effective analytical support to the Senior Finance Manager ITD&C and the Director for Delivery & Change.

• Create certainty and confidence in the Airline portfolio forecast for both cost and benefits.

• Support/lead both Finance and business stakeholders in project delivery and financial management processes, ensuring consistency of approach, tracking and challenge.

Job Accountabilities

Business Partnering / FP&A

• Provides a true business partner framework to the ITD&C function, ensuring owners have the right insight and information. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including wider finance, IT and procurement to ensure integrity of results and maximum ROI.
• Accurately consolidate future performance across portfolio costs and benefits, understand variances between actuals and forecasts, conduct analysis (including insights and recommendations) and drive continuous improvements across related processes.
• Drive continuous improvement across processes to support informed decision making.

People Leadership, Relationships and Influence

• Coordinate inputs from PMs and FBPs across the business and manage them to meet deadlines.
• Maintain effective cross-functional relationships.
• Provide subject matter expertise to a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for deep-dive reviews and support them with analysis and strategic input.
• Work with and mentor junior team members.

Key Performance Indicators & Financial Targets

• Monthly reporting and underlying processes delivered within deadlines (e.g., KNF, Factbook, PBT).
• Month-end budget variance analysis consolidated with clear explanations; investigations/deep dives as required.
• Deliver key insight on Portfolio costs for AMB/PLC reporting.
• Deliver on ad hoc projects as required by the Senior Finance Manager.

Competencies

• Ownership and Delivery: Focused on delivering results, working to targets and motivating the team.
• Business Performance: Understands business and external environment, cost-conscious with long-term implications.
• Innovation and Change: Open to new ways, comfortable in dynamic/ambiguous environments.
• Building Relationships: Communicates ideas clearly, builds positive relationships, supports team goals.

Key Skills Required

• Professional finance qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent, preferably with experience in business partnering within a large organisation.
• A motivated qualified accountant able to manage a large, complex, fast-moving function and drive change.
• Strong analytical skills with solid variance analysis and driver understanding.
• Ability to deliver to deadlines with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and challenging of stakeholders at all senior levels.
• Ability to demonstrate the commercial value of Finance interventions or projects.
• Ability to explain finance to non-financial stakeholders.
• Proactive team player with curiosity and initiative; self-starter with motivation.
• Excellent Excel skills.

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

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