Overhead Finance Lead – R2R & Payroll

easyJet; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 20% bonus

7% pension contributions

Medical Cash Plan

Excellent staff travel benefits

25 days annual leave bank holidays

Annual credit towards an easyJet holid

Various flexible benefits and extras

Job summary

easyJet is seeking a Senior Finance Manager for Central Costs in our Luton head office. You’ll own overhead accounting activities, ensure accurate reporting, and maintain strong financial controls across the organisation.

You’ll oversee payroll accounting, lead month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and drive process improvements while engaging with a broad range of finance and non-finance stakeholders. This full-time, hybrid role requires ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification, post-qualification

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA)
• Post-qualification experience within a finance environment
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and understanding of financial controls
• Experience managing complex accounting processes, reconciliations and reporting activities
• Excellent analytical skills with high attention to detail
• Proven ability to identify issues, develop solutions, and drive continuous improvement
• Strong communication skills with finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Experience leading people, projects or workstreams and influencing outcomes
• Effective prioritisation to manage multiple deadlines

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 in line with 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 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
• Maintaining a robust controls environment and identifying opportunities for process improvement
• Building strong relationships across finance and the wider business to support performance and delivery
• Driving efficiency, challenging costs, and delivering actionable financial insight to stakeholders

Skills

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Excel & PowerPoint

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification

Tools

Agresso

TM1

MS Office

Job description

easyJet is seeking a Senior Finance Manager for Central Costs in our Luton head office. You’ll own overhead accounting activities, ensure accurate reporting, and maintain strong financial controls across the organisation.

You’ll oversee payroll accounting, lead month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and drive process improvements while engaging with a broad range of finance and non-finance stakeholders. This full-time, hybrid role requires ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualification, post-qualification