Finance Manager – Fuel & Navigation

Overview

In this role you partner with senior stakeholders to turn complex commercial and operational drivers into actionable financial insight that informs decisions across fuel and navigation. You’ll lead planning, forecasting and performance reporting for two high-impact cost areas and translate drivers like fuel prices, FX and regulation into clear recommendations. You’ll collaborate across Operations, Treasury, Sustainability and Procurement to drive value and long-term performance. This is a chance to shape financial decisions that affect flight operations and efficiency at a global airline.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive base salary + up to 20% bonus
• 7% employer pension contribution
• Private medical insurance
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Annual credit towards an easyJet holiday
• Excellent staff travel benefits

Responsibilities

• Act as the finance business partner for Fuel and Navigation, providing insight, challenge and decision support to senior stakeholders across Operations, Treasury, Sustainability and Procurement
• Lead planning, forecasting and performance reporting, ensuring robust assumptions and clear visibility of performance, risks and opportunities
• Translate complex drivers (fuel prices, FX, carbon costs, regulation, operational performance) into financial recommendations
• Support business cases, optimisation initiatives and strategic decisions through robust analysis, modelling and commercial challenge

Key requirements

• Experienced finance professional with strong business partnering skills and the ability to challenge at a senior level
• Ability to interpret complex commercial, operational and regulatory information and translate into meaningful financial insight
• Strong planning, forecasting and analytical capability, with excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach
• Experience working with operationally focused stakeholders, large datasets or complex cost drivers

• Collaborative approach
• Strong communication skills
• Commercial curiosity
• Planning and forecasting
• Performance reporting
• Financial modelling and analysis

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