Our Planning & Operational Finance Team provides direct financial support to the business. This is a key area where anyone with a professional accounting qualification can significantly develop their business awareness, financial management & control and financial modeling skills - in a short period of time. The department is split into 3 basic areas - Commercial, Operations and Head Office, responsible for the preparation of budgets and longer term business plans, understanding actual results and any variances to expectations when evaluating ad-hoc projects and initiatives.

Our objective is to ensure strong financial control and compliance with corporate governance within easyJet, which are key aspects of any fast growing business.

We achieve this through effective validation, processing, reconciliation and reporting of the company’s financial transactions alongside a number of projects planned to deliver ‘continuous improvements’ to our products and processes.

Group Financial Control offers a wide range of opportunities for qualified accountants, finance professionals and administrative staff at all levels including financial accounting, financial reporting and systems, purchase ledger, DOC (Direct Operating Cost) checking and revenue protection.

Treasury provides the interface between easyJet and the banking markets operating under Board approved policies and objectives. Working as a Treasurer, Manager, Accountant, Analyst and Assistant, your key responsibilities could include:

• Investing cash balances
• Hedging of foreign exchange and jet fuel requirements.
• Ensuring funding
• Working with Procurement to finance new aircraft deliveries
• Managing relationships with financial suppliers.
• Managing the financial information for the carbon offset scheme.

The legal team supports all parts of the business to ensure that legal issues have been considered by all the various teams that make up easyJet.

Key responsibilities include contracts, negotiations, managing the claims, instructing external counsel, dealing with regulatory matters and regulatory bodies, clearing copy for marketing and advertising and general advice on compliance with UK and EU laws.

The company Secretarial part of the team ensures compliances with the UK listing rules, Companies Acts and supports the directors to ensure good corporate governance. The team is also the point of contact for employees requiring information on share option schemes.

The Internal Audit team is an independent review function set up to support the achievement of easyJet’s objectives and provide assurance to senior management and the Audit Committee, on its system of internal control and risk management. We aim to add value and improve the efficiency of business operations throughout the various activities we perform, which include:

• Evaluating and reporting on financial and operational processes and the effectiveness of controls in relation to the risks;
• Monitoring business operations to ensure compliance with laws and regulations and corporate policy;
• Reviewing the accuracy, reliability and integrity of financial and other management information;
• Assessing the extent to which easyJet’s assets are safeguarded from inappropriate use or loss; and
• Promoting awareness amongst management of risk and control.

Working with different areas of our business, Internal Audit provides an exciting opportunity to gain an all round understanding of how easyJet and aviation industry operates.