Finance Manager - Performance Reporting & Insight

FINANCE MANAGER – Performance Reporting & Insight

Team

As a member of the newly established Performance Reporting & Insight team, this role will report directly to the Head of Performance Reporting & Insight. The team has been created to enhance the quality, timeliness, and impact of management reporting across easyJet, and to drive greater understanding of financial performance through insightful analysis. The Finance Manager will play a critical role in producing reporting for the senior stakeholders across the business, as well as supporting the Group Markets team with Base/Country performance, while also helping to shape and automate the tools and processes that underpin our reporting capability.

Job Purpose

>      Own the production of monthly and quarterly reporting packs, with focus on performance versus Budget, Forecast and prior year.

>      Lead the development and enhancement of EBIT reporting by base and country, creating transparency of performance drivers at a granular level.

>      Act as a key business partner to local country finance teams, ensuring results are clearly understood, providing constructive challenge, and driving actions to improve performance.

>      Produce executive-ready outputs for the CEO, CFO, PLC Board and Airline Management Board, distilling complex financial data into clear and actionable insights.

>      Collaborate with the Planning Analytics (PA) development team to automate and simplify reporting and modelling processes across Finance.

Job Accountabilities

Business Partnering

>      Act as a trusted business partner to local country finance teams, providing robust analysis and insight that supports their understanding of financial performance, and challenging constructively to drive improved outcomes.

>      Establish strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the business, ensuring reporting outputs are clear, accurate, and aligned with the needs of the business.

>      Provide financial support and counsel to the Group Markets team, supporting decision-making with timely and insightful analysis.

Business Performance And Analytical Support:

>      Lead the delivery of monthly and quarterly reporting packs covering performance versus Budget, Forecast and prior year, ensuring outputs are accurate, consistent, and provide meaningful interpretation of results.

>      Develop, enhance, and embed EBIT reporting by base and country, creating a clear line of sight into the drivers of financial performance across the network.

>      Produce executive-level presentations and commentary that distil complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership, the PLC Board, and the Airline Management Board.

>      Identify emerging risks, opportunities, and trends in performance, providing challenge and recommendations to drive business action and ensure financial targets are met.

People Leadership, Relationships, and Influence

>      Build strong cross-functional relationships within Finance and the wider business, ensuring collaboration and alignment in delivering reporting and insight.

>      Act as an ambassador for Finance within the business, demonstrating commercial acumen, integrity, and a focus on driving improved performance.

Automation and Process Improvement

>      Partner with the Planning Analytics development team to support the automation of key finance models and reporting processes, ensuring outputs are efficient, reliable and scalable.

>      Challenge existing ways of working, simplifying processes where possible to reduce manual effort and increase time available for strategic analysis.

>      Act as a subject matter expert for performance reporting within Finance, providing guidance on how data, systems and tools can be leveraged to deliver greater insight.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS & FINANCIAL TARGETS

>      Delivery of accurate, timely and insightful reporting packs for CEO, CFO, PLC Board and AMB.

>      Successful development and roll-out of EBIT reporting by base and country, providing greater transparency of performance drivers.

>      Implementation of automated and simplified reporting solutions within Planning Analytics, leading to measurable efficiency improvements.

>      Positive stakeholder feedback on the quality of reporting, analysis and business partnering support.

>      Financial reporting deadlines consistently met with accuracy and attention to detail.

Competencies

>      Ownership and Delivery. Has a clear focus to drive delivery of results, working to targets, reviewing progress, and adapting their plans, motivating themselves and the team to achieve results

>      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.

Key Skills Required

>      Qualified accountant with at least 3 years post qualified experience

>      Ability to embrace large, complex, preferably fast moving, entities.

>      Manages own time across variety of tasks to deliver to deadlines with accuracy and attention to detail.

>      Strong technical skills, including advanced Excel modelling and PowerPoint presentation abilities. Experience with Planning Analytics or similar planning/consolidation tools highly advantageous.

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

>      Able to demonstrate the commercial value of Finance interventions or projects.

>      Ability to explain finance to non-financial stakeholders.

>      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

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 and will be 40 hours per week.