Director Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis

Alaska Airlines • Seatac, WA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) sets the long-term financial strategy and oversees financial performance at Alaska Air Group (AAG), working with company leadership to support commercial and operational objectives while containing costs. The Director, Corporate FP&A, is responsible for the enterprise P&L and helps align company strategy with the final outlook and results.

Requirements

• 8 years of direct financial planning and analysis experience.
• 5 years of leadership experience, with at least 2 of those years directly leading people.
• Bachelor’s degree with a focus in accounting or economics, or an additional two years of training/experience in lieu of this degree.
• A strong working knowledge/experience of key financial tools such as NPV, ROIC, cash flow, activity-based costing, and maintaining large data sets.
• Proven ability to leverage business acumen and analytic capability to act as critical business partner for the organization.
• A strong track record of effectively leading/working with cross-functional teams, driving meaningful changes, and developing and mentoring others.
• A self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, willingly takes the initiative, accepts responsibility, able to analyze complex data and summarize in a concise manner, and make meaningful business recommendations in a timely fashion.
• Ability to have tough conversations to drive the right business decision without sacrificing the positive working relationship with the division.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access).
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

• A Master’s degree in business administration, finance, economics, math, or statistics.
• CPA and/or CFA qualifications.
• 5 years of experience working in the airline industry or related fields.
• Experience with PeopleSoft, Cognos TM1, Brio, Tableau, or related query tools experience.

Responsibilities

• Establish strategic goals and direction for a finance team responsible for providing all aspects of finance support. Provides timely feedback, direction, coaching, and development opportunities.
• Own design and production of all key financial management reporting used by C-Suite executives.
• Lead the budgeting strategy and planning process for the enterprise, connecting with key stakeholders to define end-to-end process and timeline for the organization.
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly closing, forecasting and reporting processes, driving process with other FP&A leaders.
• Set long-term strategy for budgeting as the financial partner to back-office divisional leadership (e.g., MDs and VPs), performing routine monthly close, forecasting, and ad hoc analyses to inform operational and strategic decisions for the division.
• Review monthly financial and metric performance with finance leadership to identify key variances, trends, and potential issues that may materially impact performance.
• Dive deeper into variances and trends to understand underlying drivers (root cause analysis) and help drive structural fixes and realignment with cost trajectory.
• Drive continuous improvements in annual budget process and ensure timely, accurate loading of financial budget data.
• Manage investments through ownership of the business case process and capital management.
• Provides consultation to key stakeholders by leveraging financial expertise by advising on important decisions, conducting ad hoc analysis, and promoting good financial literacy within the company.
• Develop and maintain financial models for key company activities such as 3-year modeling and metrics reporting, productivity modeling, regional airline allocation and performance, what-if scenarios, etc., leveraging the power of the TM1 system wherever possible.
• Stays abreast of industry trends and competitive performance and uses that information to generate ideas and drive improvements in AAG’s performance.
• Develop people through effective performance management and ongoing feedback, focusing on fostering strategic and systems thinking, development of talent, and succession planning across teams and disciplines.
• Shape culture of the team through action, presence and reinforcement of behaviors.

Benefits

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air with high priority status
• Select number of confirmed travel credits provided annually
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Quarterly and annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees