JOB SUMMARY
The Sr. FP&A Analyst will play a key role in supporting the company's financial planning, forecasting, strategic analysis, and decision-making processes. This position serves as a critical business partner across the organization, leveraging financial modeling, analytical insights, and cross-functional collaboration to evaluate business performance, support strategic initiatives, and help drive informed decision-making. The successful candidate will combine strong analytical capabilities with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach and a commitment to delivering accurate, actionable financial insights.
HIRING RANGE
$130,000.00 - $154,000.00
LOCATION
Newport Beach, CA
Bonus eligible position
Individual pay may vary from the target hiring range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS/DUTIES
- Serve as the day-to-day owner of the company's financial forecasting model, helping translate business activity, market developments, and operating assumptions into clear financial projections
- Collect annual inputs, update for business actual performance throughout the year, maintain the accuracy of inputs and assumptions, and identify opportunities to continuously improve the model
- Lead monthly and quarterly FP&A model updates, incorporating actual results, new and proposed transactions and timing, funding activity, commercial developments, and other key business driver updates
- Develop variance analysis and executive-ready materials that explain performance versus plan, highlight key trends, and help senior leaders understand the "why" behind financial results
- Critically evaluate understand key drivers of performance to plan under various conditions. Identify opportunities to improve how the team anticipates, tracks and reports the company's performance to plan
- Partner with stakeholders across Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Marketing, Trading, Aircraft Technical, and others to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and build a well-rounded view of business performance
- Support the annual financial plan and five-year strategic planning process, including analysis of business initiatives, growth opportunities, and potential impacts to financial performance
- Build financial models and analytical tools that support leasing transactions, aircraft purchases and sales, portfolio activity, M&A opportunities, and other strategic decisions
- Develop a strong understanding of the aircraft leasing business, including fleet economics, transaction drivers, funding considerations, and key performance metrics
- Identify opportunities to improve FP&A processes, data flows, reporting tools, and model logic, and help implement enhancements that make analysis more accurate, efficient, and scalable
- Prepare clear, accurate, and user-friendly analysis and presentations for senior management and other stakeholders.
- Build relationships across the organization and become a trusted analytical partner to teams involved in planning, reporting, transactions, and strategic decision-making
- Contribute to ad hoc analyses and special projects that provide exposure to strategic, commercial, and financial priorities across the company
KEY DIMENSIONS
- In-depth understanding of ACG's business model, operations, strategy, and financial performance
- Ability to detect and correctly interpret changes in market and operating conditions and their likely impact on financial results and operating metrics
- Effective execution of FP&A function responsibilities with a bias towards continuous improvement
- Ability to collaborate and build interpersonal relationships across the company and at all levels, transparency and accountability
KEY RELATIONSHIPS & LEADERSHIP
- Key peer relationships, line managers in every department, subject matter experts. Ability to communicate actionable insights clearly and effectively to key stakeholders and senior management.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, economics, engineering or commensurate business experience required
- 5-7 years of direct work experience in FP&A or Corporate Finance required
- Aircraft Leasing, Financial Services, Airline or public company experience
- Complex financial modeling and Excel experience required
- Analytical thinking and complex problem-solving capabilities required
- Strong organization skills, with ability to effectively prioritize work and meet deadlines, attention to detail
- Ability to create and deliver impactful presentations to key stakeholders and senior management
- Prior experience developing revenue and expense business plans highly valued
- Understanding and experience in applying GAAP or IFRS accounting principles
- Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to interact with all levels of an organization
- Advanced degree (MBA), certification (CFA), or other qualifications related to aviation and aviation leasing preferred
- Advanced Excel capabilities, working with large data sets and data manipulation preferred
WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- This role is an in-office position and requires regular on-site presence to support collaboration and business needs
- Ability to use computer & software programs on a daily basis
ENVIRONMENT
- This position will be indoors 100% of the time. 90%-95% of the day is spent sitting or standing at a desk as the other 5% consists of minimal walking to meet with other employees.