Aviation FP&A Analyst: Planning, Insights & Impact

Air Transport Services Group Inc; Wilmington (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Air Transport Services Group Inc. is seeking an Analyst, FP&A to support budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and decision support across ATSG and its business units.

You will prepare recurring financial plans, management reporting, and variance analysis to guide leadership decisions, with exposure to airline, leasing, maintenance, and logistics segments. The role may be assigned to a business unit finance team or the corporate FP&A function, applying standard planning templates and KPI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
• Two or more years of experience in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, accounting, or a related analytical role.
• Experience preparing a budget or forecast for a business unit, department, or cost center.
• Experience building financial models and analysis from source data.
• Experience preparing recurring reporting and analysis for management.
• Experience translating operating drivers into financial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare assigned portions of the annual budget and periodic forecast, including revenue, cost, headcount, capital expenditure, and cash schedules.
• Build and maintain driver-based financial models that connect operating statistics to financial results.
• Gather, validate, and challenge inputs and assumptions from operating and finance stakeholders, and document the basis for each.
• Support long-range planning, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis as requested.
• Track and report forecast accuracy and identify sources of recurring variance.
• Meet submission deadlines and maintain version control of planning files and outputs.
• Prepare recurring monthly and quarterly reporting packages, including financial statements, KPIs, variance schedules, and supporting exhibits.
• Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior periods, with clear attribution to driver rather than to account.
• Draft written commentary and analytical narrative suitable for a management audience.
• Maintain reporting templates and support consistency of presentation across periods.
• Support preparation of materials for executive leadership, the Board of Directors, ownership, lenders, and other external stakeholders in coordination with Corporate FP&A, Treasury, and the Controller organization.
• Provide analytical support on operational, commercial, and capital decisions, including cost, pricing, contract, staffing, and utilization questions.
• Prepare business cases and capital requests, including returns analysis, and support the capital approval process.
• Support quantification and validation of cost reduction, productivity, and margin improvement initiatives, and track realization against commitments.
• Perform post-implementation review comparing actual performance to business case assumptions.
• Complete 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 source systems.
• Apply the ATSG KPI dictionary, standard definitions, and reporting templates consistently.
• Support the annual budget build and ongoing use of the enterprise planning platform, including template testing and end-user support.
• Reduce manual and spreadsheet-dependent effort through automation, standardization, and documentation of recurring processes.
• Partner with the Controller organization on accrual, allocation, and close-related matters affecting reported results

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Budgeting & forecasting

Detail oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

PowerPoint

Job description

Air Transport Services Group Inc. is seeking an Analyst, FP&A to support budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and decision support across ATSG and its business units.

You will prepare recurring financial plans, management reporting, and variance analysis to guide leadership decisions, with exposure to airline, leasing, maintenance, and logistics segments. The role may be assigned to a business unit finance team or the corporate FP&A function, applying standard planning templates and KPI