Finance Manager – Inflight Retail

Job Description

Finance Manager – Inflight Retail (16789)

We are easy

Jet – a FTSE listed, multi‑billion‑pound low‑cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve already flown with us, and you’ll know there’s no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.

We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ over 18,000 colleagues. Our mission is simple: make low‑cost travel easy. Whatever your role, you’ll help connect millions of people to the moments and experiences they love – powered by Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and our famously friendly service.

What makes us easy

Jet?

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

Jet.

• Have strong experience business partnering in a fast‑paced commercial or retail environment
• Enjoy using data‑driven insight to solve complex problems
• Love working cross‑functionally and influencing senior stakeholders
• Can be in our fantastic Luton head office 3 times per week

Our Commercial Finance team partners across the business to provide analytics, insight, and challenge that drive better commercial decisions. Supporting one of the largest and most complex retail operations in European aviation, we play a vital role in delivering strong financial performance and sustainable growth.

This role sits within the Inflight Retail Finance team – a high‑profile area managing the full onboard retail P&L covering food & beverage, duty‑free, tobacco, and a growing suite of ancillary products.

As Finance Manager – Inflight Retail, you will act as a strategic business partner to the Inflight Retail leadership team, driving financial performance and supporting the delivery of the wider retail strategy.

You’ll work across the full retail P&L — from sales and margin optimisation through to logistics cost control — providing commercial challenge, robust analysis, and clear insight to influence decision‑making.

This is a highly commercial, analytically rich role in one of the most dynamic areas of the airline.

• Partner strategically with Inflight Retail leadership to influence decisions across the full retail P&L
• Challenge and support trading decisions, category strategies, pricing and promotions
• Present insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders including the Head of Inflight Retail and our Commercial Director
• Support commercial initiatives, product launches and trials through modelling, risk assessment and benefits tracking
• Build strong relationships with Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Legal and Last Mile Providers

• Monitor and analyse trading performance across products, routes, bases, and customer segments
• Lead deep‑dive analysis on shrinkage, waste, incentives and supply chain impacts
• Track and evaluate strategic programme performance and recommend improvement actions
• Deliver high‑quality forecasts, budgets, business plans and performance reporting
• Develop predictive analytics to enhance sales and margin forecasting
• Support month‑end close, ensuring accurate accruals, provisions and adjustments
• Lead product profitability analysis to inform range decisions
• Support the creation of budget presentations for senior management
• Drive continuous improvement across finance and commercial processes
• Build strong cross‑functional relationships and act as a subject matter expert
• Support and mentor junior team members

• Qualified accountant with 3+ years PQE
• Experience in large, complex, fast‑moving organisations
• Strong analysis and variance interpretation skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Ability to manage and interpret large datasets; passion for automation and process improvement
• Proven ability to business partner and influence senior stakeholders
• Proactive self‑starter with strong commercial acumen
• Aviation experience welcome but not essential
• Experience working with multi‑unit, EMEA or…