Senior FP&A Analyst

<h2> General information </h2> <h3> Vacancy Reference number </h3> 005050   <h3> About us </h3><p id="fldoffer_longtext1">At Aer Lingus, we believe in going above and beyond to connect people, places and possibilities. Whether working at the airport, in our offices or at home - every employee has a role to play in making Aer Lingus the heart of travel to, through and beyond Ireland for generations to come.<br/>How do we do this? We Put Safety First. There's nothing more important. We Are Customer Focused. We champion the customer and go above and beyond to get things just right for them. We're Stronger Together. With a ‘how can I help?' attitude, we communicate and collaborate to achieve shared success. We Own It. We do what we say we're going to do and always follow through. We Look Forward. We build the future by embracing change today.</p><h3> What we offer </h3><p id="fldoffer_longtext3">As well as offering you a competitive salary, career advancement opportunities and staff travel benefits (with Aer Lingus and many other international airlines), you will also have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment and to join a team of amazing professionals who are passionate about the aviation industry. To learn more about the exciting benefits and opportunities that await you at Aer Lingus please visit our website.<br/>At Aer Lingus, we embrace diversity and believe in providing equal opportunities to all qualified individuals. We are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive and respectful work environment that values employees' unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected status. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from all candidates who share our passion for aviation. If you have any questions or require any accommodations to support you in your application, please contact us at recruit@aerlingus.com.</p><h2>Vacancy details</h2><h3> Role title </h3><p id="fldjobdescription_jobtitle">Senior FP&amp;A Analyst</p><h3> Your role </h3> <p><p>Aer Lingus Finance has an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join the Financial Planning &amp; Analysis (FP&amp;A) team, reporting to the FP&amp;A Manager. The Senior FP&amp;A Analyst role is integral to the remit of the FP&amp;A function as owners of the budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning models of the organisation. This role will be a trusted support for the FP&amp;A Manager in addition to directly managing resources within the team.</p><p>The Senior FP&amp;A analyst role will involve direct communication and engagement with Senior Management and Executives, providing insightful and effective financial analysis. Such financial analysis will have varying degrees of complexity, urgency and system dependency. They will also actively drive finance transformation (including evaluation of automation, data management etc.) and support various Finance and Finance system improvement processes and projects.</p><p>This is a key role with a candidate joining an inclusive team, working collaboratively with functional business areas, in a hybrid working model.</p><p>Your responsibilities as a Senior Financial Planning &amp; Analysis Analyst will include:</p><ul><li>Lead financial forecasting and planning activities including collaboration across finance and wider business to ensure appropriate inputs, assumptions and KPIs are received, ensuring adequate challenge and testing.</li><li>Take ownership for co-ordination, collation, and critical review of inputs from stakeholders, both within and external to Finance, ensuring accurate, timely and appropriate information is shared.</li><li>Review the core FP&amp;A models and modelling processes and systems. This will include ensuring robustness and accuracy of data, continuous development of capabilities, automation and scalability of frameworks, appropriateness of outputs and presentation of forecasting / modelling outcomes.</li><li>Take ownership for outputs and reports (including excel submissions and presentations to Aer Lingus senior management and IAG), ensuring that submissions are made in line with timelines, and that requests for further follow up analysis and insights are provided on a timely basis.</li><li>Provide timely responses with an appropriate level of insight, and alignment with current commercial and operational activity, cost programmes, business cases under review etc. to various stakeholder including Aer Lingus Executive / Senior Management and IAG Group Reporting and FP&amp;A teams.</li><li>Design and deploy processes, reports, interfaces etc. to significantly reduce the level of manual effort involved in report delivery (ad hoc reporting, regular reporting, month end, business plans etc.).</li><li>Train and mentor junior