Associate Manager Corporate Planning

The Opportunity :

Air India Express is looking for analytical and data-driven professional to join the Corporate Planning team as an Associate Manager. This role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with senior leadership on strategic initiatives that shape the airline's growth trajectory.

The position involves supporting long-term business planning, fleet and network strategy, operating model development, financial and operational analysis, and executive decision support. The candidate will play a key role in transforming large and complex datasets into actionable insights, developing analytical tools and financial models, driving automation initiatives, and building business cases that influence strategic decisions across the organization.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop robust financial models, forecasting models, scenario analysis and business cases to support long term planning.
• Process, transform and analyze large volumes of operational, commercial, and financial data to generate actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve route profitability models, including allocation methodologies and route-level financial analysis, to evaluate profitability, operational and commercial performance metrics.
• Design, develop and maintain automated dashboards, MIS reports, and visualization tools to effectively monitor business performance and key metrics.
• Drive process improvement, reporting standardization, and automation initiatives using Power Query, Power BI, Power Automate, Python, SQL, AI tools, and other emerging technologies
• Continuously improve planning models, reporting frameworks, and analytical methodologies by adopting modern data analytics and AI-enabled solutions.
• Conduct detailed cost analysis and internal/external benchmarking to identify efficiency improvement opportunities.
• Monitor key operational, financial, and strategic performance metrics and provide actionable recommendations.

Requirements

• MBA (Finance) from a reputed institute or Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA).
• 1-3 years of relevant experience in Corporate Planning, Strategy, FP&A, Business Analytics, Consulting, or related fields.
• Expertise in financial modelling and VBA-driven automation, including business planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, valuation, sensitivity analysis, and development of dynamic decision-support models.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including large scale data analysis, dashboard development, scenario modelling, and forecasting.
• Proficiency in Power BI for data visualization and reporting.
• Ability to work with large and complex datasets and derive meaningful business insights.
• Knowledge of SQL, Python, or database management tools will be preferred.
• Experience leveraging AI tools, automation platforms, and emerging analytics technologies will be an added advantage.