Job Description
Bank Payments Supervisor
When it comes to innovation and achievement there are few organisations with a better track record. Join us and you'll be able to play a big part in our highly successful, fast-paced business that opens up Europe to people so they can exercise their get-up-and-go. With over 330 aircraft flying over 1000 routes to more than 35 countries, we're the UK's largest airline, the fourth largest in Europe and the tenth largest in the world. Flying over 70 million passengers a year, we employ over 17,000 people. Its big-scale and we're still growing.
TEAM
The banking team are a team of 6 and sits within the core finance transactions team compromising of Revenue, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable and Banking.
The Banking teams' function is to ensure the business payments are processed and accounted for on time, where that be Accounts payables, customer service refunds, tax, payroll, Treasury and other adhoc business payments. Every payment processed for the business runs through the Banking team.
Job Purpose
The Bank Payments Supervisor is responsible for co-ordinating external payments made by easyJet.
The role facilitates payments through several bank accounts across different European countries and reports directly to the Banking Manager in the Financial Accounting team.
Job Accountabilities
Maintaining full control of the cashier function, completing all payments each day.
Ensuring that each payment is assessed by its urgency and placed on a high value payment run (CHAPS) or a low value payment run (BACS), ensuring costs are kept to a minimum.
Monitoring the banking systems throughout the day to identify any unusual activity on the accounts and rectifying any issues as early as possible.
Keeping rejections down, ensuring the payables team are informed of rejected payments and helping them to correct details for a straight through processing in the second submission.
Being the main point of contact between the bank and the business with regards to payments processed, ensuring that all payments have been distributed to authorisers and submitted before the relevant cut off times.
Responsible for maintaining all credit cards in the business and issuing any new applications to the bank.
Measuring the number of manual payments from around the business monthly and looking at ways to educate the business of cost saving around the payments function.
Reconciliation of month end bank accounts and providing explanation for any outstanding items.
Production of the daily morning funding of accounts report and the afternoon funding report ensuring all accounts are in credit.
COMPETENCIES
Ownership and Delivery.
Motivates self to work hard and deliver results in line with expectations. Able to make effective decisions even when under pressure.
Customer and Shareholder Value.
Identifies possible risks that may impact our business success and raise these with their manager. Communicates the needs of stakeholders and feedback from them to the team
Business Performance.
Understands the easyJet business model and the key metrics used to measure success.
Innovation and Change.
Questions and challenges the current way of doing things within their team. Comfortable working in a changing environment and is positive when communicating new developments.
Building Relationships.
Builds strong relationships with people and teams that are directly linked to their own success
Developing Talent
Proactively looks for new opportunities to learn and develop, using all resources available to them
Key Skills Required
Experience of operating in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication skills
Familiar with the different payment processes e.g., BACS, CHAPS, and urgency of business-critical payment. Experience of working with multiple foreign currencies will be an advantage, especially international payment processing.
Must be someone who has a real drive to change and challenging ways of working
Have a challenge mindset and the confidence to discuss and raise issues when they arise
Someone who demonstrates excellent attention to detail
Manage own time across variety of tasks and projects to deliver to deadlines
Strong planning /organisation skills
Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
Communicate with both finance and non-finance contacts to make business critical payments
Intermediate to advanced MS Office Skills – including extensive knowledge of Excel
Benefits
Competitive base salary
Up to 20% bonus
25 days holiday
BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
5% pension
Life Assurance
Flexible benefits package
Excellent staff travel benefits
LOCATION & HOURS OF WORK
This full-time role will be based in Luton, and will be 40 hours per week, with some occasional travel required.
Reasonable Adjustments
At easyJet, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse customers we serve across Europe. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds. If you require specific adjustments or support during the application or recruitment process, such as extra time for assessments or accessible interview locations, please contact us at We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to ensure accessibility and accommodation
TLS3
Business Area
Finance
Primary Location
United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport
Organisation
Finance
Schedule
Full-time
Unposting Date
Ongoing