Job Description - Finance Manager (15485)
Description
easyJet are currently on the lookout for a Finance Manager to join our evolving operations finance team, specifically partnering the Cabin Crew stakeholders. When it comes to innovation and achievement, there are few organizations with a better track record. Join us and you’ll be able to play a big part in the success of our highly successful, fast-paced business that opens up Europe so people can exercise their get-up-and-go. With over 250 aircraft flying over 700 routes to more than 30 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 10,000 people. It’s big-scale stuff 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 Crew, providing financial ownership for Cabin Crew costs. This role also sits within the wider Operations Team and is a key business partnering role.
JOB PURPOSE
The purpose of this role is to be the end-to-end finance contact for Cabin Crew costs and provide complete financial management and ownership for this area. The role provides a business partnership between the key stakeholders and the financial performance of easyJet, including Cabin Services, Ops Planning, and Industrial Relations. This role leads the long-term planning processes for Cabin Crew costs, including Budget, Outlook, and the long-term plan. Support delivery of key strategic objectives for Cabin Crew, including operational resilience, EDGE initiatives, and winter profitability. 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 5-year plans. The role drives and monitors the cost-saving initiatives that form part of the overall strategic plan.
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES
Business Partnering:
1. Provides a true Business Partner framework to all Cabin Crew stakeholders, ensuring that the business owners are always supported with the right insight and information.
2. Strong business partnering with cross-functional stakeholders including the wider finance team, Operations & Commercial teams to ensure seamless communication and integrity of results and forecasts.
3. Budget and Outlook for Cabin Crew.
4. Report and identify opportunities to improve Cabin Crew productivity.
5. Provide financial support to future Cabin Crew pay deal negotiations.
6. Identify opportunities to drive improvements to winter profitability.
7. Supporting the EDGE programme.
8. Monthly Re-forecasting.
9. Business case evaluation and decision advice.
10. Ad-hoc projects.
Business Performance and Analytical Support:
1. Ownership for monthly detailed analysis and insight into the costs, which can be used to drive business performance and improve the cost base.
2. Responsibility for accurate monthly forecasting into consolidated PBT model and review of cash flow forecasts.
3. Driving confidence in numbers and providing insight into risks and opportunities.
4. Driving continuous improvements in the operational and finance processes.
5. Leads the team in developing a good understanding of all Cabin Crew costs.
6. Contribute to budget process and pack for Cabin Crew costs detailing variances by country for presentation to senior management and for procurement.
7. Provides financial evaluation and acts as lead decision support finance manager for ad-hoc projects and cost-saving initiatives.
8. Support the month-end reporting process and providing analysis detailing variances to plan and prior year tracking the effectiveness of cost-saving initiatives for Cabin Crew.
People Leadership, Relationships and Influence
1. Maintaining effective cross-functional relationships.
2. Providing subject matter expertise to a diverse and demanding set of stakeholders.
3. Managing and mentoring junior members of the team.
4. Managing one direct report and responsibility for their development, retention, and talent.
Requirements of the Role
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS & FINANCIAL TARGETS
1. Support delivery of Cost per Seat (CPS) maintained at broadly flat and delivered to budget.
2. Month End insight and budget variance analysis completed on time and with accuracy and clear explanations of movements.
3. Report and identify opportunities to improve Cabin Crew productivity.
4. Deliver key insight into performance of costs for Cabin Crew and ensure latest view is reflected in the rolling forecast.
5. Support easyJet strategic projects to track benefits delivery.
6. To deliver the business initiatives for each area of responsibility.
7. Support the development of in-year and pipeline cost initiatives with Airport development.
COMPETENCIES
1. 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.
2. Business Performance. Understands business and external environment, is cost-conscious and understands the longer-term perspective and implications of decisions.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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
1. Qualified accountant with at least 3 years post-qualified experience.
2. Ability to embrace large, complex, preferably fast-moving, entities.
3. Excellent analytical skills with an ability to demonstrate an excellent grasp of variance analysis and the key drivers.
4. Manage own time across a variety of tasks and projects to deliver to deadlines.
5. Ability to deliver the level of detail and insight required to support the procurement and ground operations team.
6. Able to communicate and challenge effectively with key stakeholders at all seniority levels in the organization.
7. Able to demonstrate the commercial value of Finance projects.
8. Ability to explain finance to non-financial stakeholders.
9. A proactive team player.
10. An ability to work on own initiative, and has the confidence to offer solutions.
11. A true self-starter, with high levels of motivation and enthusiasm.
12. Excellent excel skills (up to basic macros) and TM1 experience preferred.
BENEFITS
1. Up to 20% bonus.
2. 25 days holiday.
3. BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes.
4. Life Assurance.
5. Flexible benefits package.
6. Excellent staff travel benefits.
LOCATION & HOURS OF WORK
This full-time role will be hybrid working, for 60% of your working month, based in Luton and will be 40 hours per week.
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