Financial Analyst (NJE)

Purpose of Position

Act as an interface with all finance teams while being a key partner with the business team, facilitating the decision-making process and guarantee Aircraft Maintenance costs and/or reporting tasks implementation are aligned with strategy. Support the ELT in preparing Aircraft Maintenance analysis and/or reporting materials, delivering these in a timely manner and ensuring that financial and operational assessment and critical analysis of business development opportunities are executed in order to provide reliable indicators useful for business strategy planning.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Support the line manager and area controller lead in working with the Executive leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term aircraft maintenance costs and strategic plan;
• Prepare business plans, cash flow analysis, return on investment metrics, profit & loss impacts, scenarios and sensitivity analysis to provide the ELT with accurate data to support strategic decisions;
• Prepare ongoing Business reviews, providing different “scenarios” to provide financial indicators that could help business strategy planning;
• Support the monthly reporting and closing accounts, providing guidance on complex accounting operations subjects, and justify all the differences from the previous month, to ensure the delivery of correct financial indicators;
• Exercises judgment in planning, organizing and performing work; monitors performance and reports status within area of responsibility;
• Liaise with different business units in order to assess their business needs that can be fulfilled through the FP&A team with regards to the value of potential investments, new products/services and ad hoc analysis to identify best business development opportunities;
• Prepare financial and operational analysis and assessments of business variables, risks and trends in order to ensure that clear and accurate output is provided to the EMT to support business strategy planning and decision-making processes;
• Analyse and interpret financial and operating results, including investigating variances and making recommendations on corrective actions. Develop meaningful KPI's from the data;
• Support the monthly reporting and closing accounts, providing guidance on complex accounting operations subjects, and justify all the differences from the previous month, to ensure the delivery of correct financial indicators;
• Develop and provide ad-hoc reports requested by the different departments (from Finance Divisions, Operations or central departments) guaranteeing accurate data to enable manager’s department to take appropriate actions;

Education

Bachelor's in Economics or Management

Certifications and Licenses

Years of Experience

2-4 years of experience

Core Competencies

Service-Oriented

Curiosity

Collaboration

Adaptability

Strives For Positive Results

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other (KSAOs)

• University degree in Management, Economics or similar;
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role, preparing financial reports and creating budgets and forecasts;
• Hands-on experience with financial and statistical software and familiarity with finance databases
• Excellent analytical skills with experience in Analytics tools;
• Very good skills in MS Office (Excel - creating spreadsheets and using advanced formulas);
• Ability to present financial data using detailed reports and charts;
• Fluency in Business English;
• Solid organizational skills with the ability to work under tight deadlines.