Financial Accountant - Flight Operations

Job Description
- Financial Accountant
- Flight Operations (17176)

Job Description

Financial Accountant
- Flight Operations ( 17176 )

We are easy

Jet - a FTSE listed, £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easy

Jet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.

We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy - and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

What makes us easy

Jet? Our Promise Behaviours - we are Safe, Bold, Welcoming and Challenging. Four Behaviours. One Spirit. One easy

Jet.

• Are a qualified accountant with experience working in a large, complex and fast-paced business environment.
• Enjoy combining technical accounting expertise with continuous improvement.
• Have strong analytical skills and can translate complex financial information into clear insights for stakeholders.
• Can be in our fantastic Luton head office 3 x per week.

Our Finance team plays a vital role in supporting easy

Jet's continued growth and success. Working at the heart of the business, you'll join a team of detail-focused problem-solvers responsible for managing billions of pounds of assets while balancing service, value and operational excellence. It's a fast-moving environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a real impact.

As Financial Accountant
- Flight Operations (Disruption, Fuel & Carbon), you'll take ownership of the end-to-end financial accounting and reporting process for some of the airline's most significant cost areas.

You'll lead monthly financial close activities, ensuring accuracy, control and timely reporting across disruption, fuel and carbon accounting. Acting as a trusted finance partner, you'll work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Treasury, Legal and Group Reporting while providing insight and expertise to support business decision-making.

• Leading the monthly close process, including accruals, prepayments, provisions, journals and financial review activities.
• Owning balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring all accounts are fully substantiated and compliant with control requirements.
• Investigating and explaining key financial movements, risks and accounting judgements.
• Monitoring emerging accounting standards and legislation relating to fuel, disruption and carbon accounting.
• Preparing technical accounting papers and recommendations for complex or evolving accounting matters.
• Managing audit activity for your areas of responsibility and acting as the key contact for internal and external auditors.
• Supervising and reviewing accounting outputs from the wider team, providing coaching and support where required.
• Delivering insightful variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year performance.
• Presenting findings, risks and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including Directors.
• Driving process improvements and identifying opportunities to enhance reporting, controls and efficiency.

• Qualified accountant.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with the ability to interpret complexity across the balance sheet, profit and loss account, and cash flow.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to communicate and challenge at all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to explain financial concepts clearly to non-finance audiences.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to deliver high-quality outputs to tight deadlines.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Experience supervising, reviewing or supporting the development of others.
• Advanced Excel skills, including experience working with large datasets. Knowledge of Planning Analytics would be advantageous.
• A collaborative approach and a…