Description

Ryanair are currently recruiting for a Head of Financial Planning and Analysis and Cost Control to join Europe's largest airline group.

This is an excellent time to join Ryanair as we look to grow to over 800 aircraft and 300m guests within the next 10 year.

This isa temp cover role where the ideal candidate will be reponsibile for all of Ryanair's FP&A function and should be a qualified accountant to (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equvalent) with a minimum of 5 years relevant accounting experience. 

Duties include:

• Leading the annual budgeting process;
• Weekly internal management reporting including preparation of weekly forecast P&L and cashflow;
• Identify and research variances to forecast, budget, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement;
• Business partnering with various departments across the group;
• Cost control in all areas of the business and reviewing capex and cost saving proposals;
• Develop and analyse financial models to support critical initiatives;
• Long term financial planning (Cashflow, P&L, Balance Sheet) for the Group
• Coaching and developing a team of FP&A analysts and airport invoice authorisers;
• Systems development for planning and use of systems such as Airpas and SAP;
• Identify continuous improvements in the reporting process;
• Ad-hoc duties, scenario planning and & projects.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent).
• 5 Years relevant experience.
• Previous experience with team management or leading.
• Commercially focussed with excellent analytical skills. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Highly profiecent in Microsoft Office suite including Excel.
• Ability work in a fast-paced, pressurised environment and work with their own initiative.
• Experience using SAP Accounting and Airpass is highly desirable 

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Discounted and unlimited travel to over 250 destinations
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
• Death in Service Benefit – Up to 2 times of annual basic salary
• 20 Days Annual Leave – Increasing to 22 days after 12 months and 25 days after 3 years of continuous service.
• Option for up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
• Cycle 2 Work Scheme
• Unrivalled career progression

Competencies