Finance Manager - Central Costs Payroll

Job Description
- Finance Manager
- Central Costs Payroll (17195)

Finance Manager
- Central Costs Payroll ( 17195 )

We are easy

Jet – a £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 ACA, ACCA, or CIMA finance professional with relevant post-qualification experience.
• Enjoy combining financial control, reporting, analysis, and stakeholder management.
• Have experience managing overheads, payroll accounting, or complex finance processes in a large organisation.
• Thrive on improving processes, strengthening controls, and driving efficiencies.
• Can be in our fantastic Luton head office 3 x per week.

You’ll join our Record to Report (R2R) Finance team, supporting the delivery of accurate accounting, reporting, and financial control across easy

Jet's Central Costs. Working closely with finance colleagues and business stakeholders, the team plays a key role in ensuring overhead costs are accurately recorded, governed, and understood, providing trusted insight that supports effective decision-making across the business.

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager Central Costs, you'll take ownership of overhead accounting activities across the organisation, ensuring accurate reporting, strong financial controls, and compliance with accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements.

This role combines financial control, payroll accounting oversight, reporting, forecasting, and continuous improvement. You'll work with a broad range of stakeholders, helping ensure financial information is accurate, timely, and delivers meaningful insight to the business.

• Managing central cost and overhead accounting activities across multiple cost categories.
• Overseeing payroll accounting processes to ensure accurate and compliant financial reporting.
• Reviewing payroll journals, accruals, provisions, and adjustments in line with accounting standards.
• Ensuring payroll costs, taxes, benefits, and deductions are correctly recorded within the general ledger.
• Completing and reviewing payroll balance sheet reconciliations and expense reconciliations.
• Developing and enhancing monthly reporting to improve quality, speed, and insight.
• Supporting budgeting, forecasting, and month-end close activities for overhead cost centres.
• Ensuring compliance with tax, pension, social security, and other statutory requirements.
• Supporting payroll-related audits, regulatory reviews, and control assessments.
• Maintaining a robust controls environment and identifying opportunities for process improvement.
• Building strong relationships across finance and the wider business to support performance and delivery.
• Driving efficiency, challenging costs, and delivering actionable financial insight to stakeholders.

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
• Relevant post-qualification experience within a finance environment.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and understanding of financial controls.
• Experience managing complex accounting processes, reconciliations, and reporting activities.
• Excellent analytical skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Proven ability to identify issues, develop solutions, and drive continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience leading people, projects, or work streams and influencing positive outcomes.
• Effective prioritisation skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Strong Excel and…