Pricing Analyst

Peak Performance Recruitment; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Peak Performance Recruitment is seeking a pricing analyst to drive informed decision-making on aircraft lease and sale transactions in the Middle East. The role focuses on pricing analysis, underwriting, and financial modelling to support management decisions and client pitches.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in pricing analysis within aircraft leasing or airlines, with a finance-related degree and strong analytical/communication skills.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience in a similar pricing analysis position within an aircraft lessor or airline, or in management, consulting, or banking with a related focus.
• Bachelor’s degree preferably in Finance, Business, Engineering, or Aerospace.
• Strong analytical and communication skills; able to create financial models.

Responsibilities

• Provide pricing and underwriting analysis of aircraft trading and leasing transactions during deal approval.
• Ensure timely information flow to front line executives to drive transactions to informed conclusions.
• Create financial models to analyse non-standard transactions.
• Provide project support including research, data manipulation/analysis, and presentation production.
• Conduct market and competitor research in evaluating potential aircraft leasing opportunities.
• Maintain understanding of underlying customer and potential customer business models and aircraft requirements.
• Maintain ongoing contact with customers, competitors and suppliers for current industry information.
• Engage with management in airline credit pricing analyses.
• Provide underwriting support to projects and management decisions.
• Populate slides, charts, or sections in corporate memos and presentations.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Engineering, or Aerospace

Job description

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing aircraft leasing platform in the Middle East. The company has a strong financial parent and is adding further capacity to their pricing / underwriting team.

Job Description

The pricing position plays a vital role by driving informed decision making within key business areas. The role is focused on providing pricing analysis of aircraft lease and sale transactions to ensure strategic and tactical decision-making, general market information and analytics and specific campaign presentations and pitches. The successful candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills and be self-motivated to work in a dynamic, exciting and challenging environment.

Location: Middle East

Responsibilities

• Through the deal approval process, provide timely pricing and underwriting analysis of transactions including aircraft trading, leasing transactions
• Ensure an accurate flow of information to and from front line executives and assist in driving transactions to a commercially informed conclusion in a timely fashion
• Create financial models to analyse non-standard transactions.
• Provide project support to include research, data manipulation / analysis and presentation production
• Conduct market and competitor research in the evaluation of potential aircraft leasing opportunities
• Maintain a solid understanding of the underlying business models and aircraft requirements of customers and potential customers.
• Maintain ongoing contact with customers, competitors and suppliers to ensure collective knowledge and information on airlines is current, including business plans, financial statements, market analysis and industry reports.
• Engage with management in the debate and pricing analysis of airline credits.
• Provide underwriting support to projects, initiatives, and management decisions
• Populate slides, charts, or sections in corporate memos and presentations

Educational/ experience

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Finance, Business, Engineering, or Aerospace
• 2+ years’ experience in a similar pricing analysis position within an aircraft lessor or airline, or in either management, consulting, or banking with a focus on these industries is essential.