Financial Control Analyst

Financial Control Analyst

It’s official – easyJet is one of the best places to work in the UK! We are among the winners of the annual Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the UK’s Top 50 Best Places to Work 2024. You can be a part of it too, our Finance and Procurement teams are detail-focused problem-solvers who handle billions worth of assets and keep us on track for further growth. You’ll play an essential role in maintaining the balance between ‘service’ and ‘cost’ that makes travelling with us both accessible and enjoyable.

Join easyJets Group Financial Controls team as a Financial Control Analyst, a pivotal role reporting to the Head of Financial Control Improvement. Your primary responsibility will be to provide assurance and support to the Finance function, ensuring the effective operation and monitoring of financial controls. This entails partnering with business units to understand the financial control environment, maintaining process and control documentation, conducting testing of critical controls, and identifying deficiencies.
Youll play a key role in the annual financial statement mapping and risk assessment process, updating process documentation, and assisting in the development of testing programs. Additionally, youll support control owners in maintaining documentation, report on control attestations, and administer key risk and controls within the Risk and Controls platform. Your role will involve coordinating with external auditors, evaluating changes in processes and technology, and ensuring compliance with Corporate Governance Code requirements. If you have a strong background in financial controls and a knack for process improvement, join us in shaping easyJets financial control landscape. Apply now to be part of our dynamic team!

What you need to do the role
We are seeking a professional candidate with a relevant professional qualification and at least one year of post-qualification experience. The ideal candidate will have a strong ability to articulate risks, processes, and controls clearly. Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills are essential, with a demonstrated ability to work effectively with stakeholders of all levels of seniority. The successful candidate will exhibit excellent time management, organisation, and project management abilities. They must also possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the capability to summarise key messages, priorities, and actions for reporting to management. We value proactive teamwork and seek a candidate who can contribute positively to our team dynamics. Initiative, confidence in proposing solutions for continuous improvement, and experience with SOX/COSO internal control frameworks are highly desirable. Familiarity with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) systems is preferred.

What you’ll get in return
> 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. We support hybrid working and we spend three days per week in the office.

About easyJet
At easyJet our aim is to make low cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.

Apply
Complete your application on our careers site.

We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.

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