Finance Manager - Engineering & Maintenance and Navigation

Job Description - Finance Manager - Engineering & Maintenance and Navigation (16167)

Job Description

Finance Manager - Engineering & Maintenance and Navigation ( 16167 )

Description

FINANCE MANAGER - ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE AND NAVIGATION

easyJet are currently on the lookout for a Finance Manager to join our evolving operations finance team, specifically partnering the Engineering & Maintenance (E&M) operations and Navigation operations. 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

This is a really exciting opportunity working as a key member of the Operations Finance team, reporting into the Senior Finance Manager for E&M, providing financial ownership for E&M and Navigation costs and line managing a direct report. This role also sits within the wider Operations Team and is a key business partnering role.

JOB PURPOSE

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

Business Partnering:

Provides a true Business Partner framework to E&M team, ensuring that the business owners are supported with the right insight and information at all times. Strong business partnering with cross functional stakeholders including wider finance team, Operations & Fleet teams to ensure seamless communication and integrity of results and forecasts.

Business Performance and Analytical support :

People Leadership, Relationships and Influence

As a member of the Core Finance team, the E&M Finance Manager has responsibility for

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS & FINANCIAL TARGETS

Support delivery of Cost per Seat (CPS) & Cost per available seat kilometre (CASK) maintained at broadly flat and delivered to budget

Month End pack delivery with insight and budget variance analysis completed on time and with accuracy and clear explanations of movements

Support easyJet strategic projects and track benefits delivery

Deliver the business initiatives for each area of responsibility.

Support the development of in year and pipeline cost initiatives with E&M and Navigation

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.Quick to learn Engineering and Maintenance business practice, cost development levers and the relevant accounting framework.

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 closer team and in the business 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 thrive and succeed in large, complex, fast moving, dynamic organisations.

Excellent analytical skills with an ability to demonstrate an excellent grasp of variance analysis and drivers.

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

Able to communicate and challenge effectively with key stakeholders at all seniority levels in the organisation.

Able to demonstrate the commercial value of Finance projects

Ability to explain finance clearly to non-financial stakeholders

A proactive team player

An ability to work on own initiative, and has the confidence to offer different solutions and perspectives.

A true self starter, with high levels of motivation and enthusiasm

Excellent excel skills (up to basic macros) and TM1 experience preferred

BENEFITS

Up to 20% bonus

25 days holiday

BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes

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.

MP2

Business Area

Business Area Finance

Primary Location