SR FINANCIAL ANALYST FP&A

Air Transport Services Group, Inc.•Wilmington, OH

14h

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A supports budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and decision support for an assigned ATSG business unit or corporate function. The role prepares the financial plan and recurring management reporting, explains results through operating-focused variance and driver analysis, and provides analysis for operational, commercial, and capital decisions. The position may support an airline, leasing, maintenance, logistics, or corporate finance team and applies ATSG planning standards, KPI definitions, and reporting templates. The analyst works directly with operating and finance leaders, works independently with limited direction, and serves as a resource to other analysts.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
At least three years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, or accounting.
Experience owning a budget or forecast for a business unit, function, or multi-entity organization.
Experience building financial models from source data without a pre-existing template.
Experience preparing recurring reporting and analysis for senior leadership.
Experience working with operational data and translating operating drivers into financial outcomes.
Strong financial modeling skills, including driver-based forecasting, scenario analysis, and variance decomposition.
Working knowledge of financial statements and the relationships among the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow.
Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, including judgment to distinguish material drivers from noise.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear narratives from complex financial data.
High standards of accuracy and intellectual honesty, including willingness to identify and escalate errors and constructively challenge submissions.
Ability to manage a demanding recurring reporting calendar alongside project and process-improvement work.
Ability to work independently and influence finance and operating personnel who do not report to the role.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and general proficiency with Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint.
Experience with ERP systems and financial data extraction, transformation, and reconciliation.
Familiarity with enterprise performance management, consolidation, or planning platforms.
Working knowledge of accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting disciplines.

Nice To Haves

Experience with an enterprise performance management or planning platform such as Vena, Anaplan, OneStream, Adaptive, or Hyperion.
Experience in a capital-intensive industry such as aviation, transportation, logistics, leasing, or industrials.
Experience in a multi-entity organization with decentralized operating businesses.
Experience in a private equity-backed or sponsor-owned environment, including value creation plans or sponsor reporting.
Oracle ERP experience.
Proficiency with business intelligence and visualization tools.
Experience delivering productivity enhancements using BI- and/or AI-driven dashboards.
Progress toward or completion of a CPA, CFA, MBA, or equivalent professional qualification.

Responsibilities

Prepare annual budgets and periodic forecasts covering revenue, costs, headcount, capital expenditure, and cash for an assigned business unit or function.
Build and maintain driver-based financial models that link operating statistics to financial results, without relying on a pre-existing template.
Gather, validate, challenge, and document inputs and assumptions from operating and finance stakeholders.
Prepare long-range plans, scenarios, and sensitivity analyses.
Track forecast accuracy, identify recurring variance sources, and drive improvements.
Manage planning submissions and review milestones against the enterprise planning calendar, maintaining version control of planning files and outputs.
Own recurring monthly and quarterly reporting packages, including financial statements, KPIs, variance schedules, and supporting exhibits.
Analyze variances against budget, forecast, and prior periods, attributing results to operating drivers.
Draft written variance commentary and analytical narratives for executive audiences.
Prepare business-unit or functional content for executive, Board, ownership, and lender reporting in coordination with Corporate FP&A, Treasury, and the Controller organization.
Maintain reporting templates and support consistent presentation across periods.
Lead financial analysis for operational, commercial, and capital decisions, including cost, pricing, contract, staffing, utilization, and fleet questions.
Prepare and review business cases and capital requests, including returns analysis, and support the capital approval process.
Quantify and validate the financial impact of cost reduction, productivity, and margin improvement initiatives, and track realization against commitments.
Conduct post-implementation reviews comparing actual performance with business case assumptions.
Perform ad hoc financial analysis at the request of finance and operating leadership.
Extract, reconcile, and validate financial and operational data from the ERP environment and business-unit source systems.
Apply ATSG KPI definitions and reporting templates consistently and contribute to their development.
Support the annual budget build in the enterprise planning platform, including template build, testing, and end-user support.
Reduce manual and spreadsheet-dependent work through automation, standardization, and documentation of recurring processes.
Partner with the Controller organization on accrual, allocation, and close-related matters affecting reported results.
Serve as a resource to analysts on modeling techniques, standard templates, and reporting requirements.