Business and Accounting Analyst

Omaha Airport Authority; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 60,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Holidays

Stable, collaborative work environment

Opportunity to lead process changes

Job summary

Omaha Airport Authority is seeking a Business and Accounting Analyst to support financial forecasting, budgeting and grants with cross-functional collaboration. The role drives process improvement and strengthens strategic initiatives across the business office.

Ideal candidates will bring financial and business analysis strengths, project leadership, and strong presentation skills to influence decisions and optimize performance in a fast-paced airport environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, aviation, or law and minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
• Strong leadership, communications, organizational, and management skills; able to mentor others.
• Excellent time management; able to prioritize and complete projects.
• Experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Windows with ERP systems.
• Ability to present information clearly to diverse groups of executives and staff.

Responsibilities

• Business Analysis: assist budgeting for annual budgets and fees; analyze KPIs and financial metrics.
• Cash and Investments: help prepare monthly reconciliations and bond/cash reports.
• Monthly Accounting, Capital: process journal entries; track capital grants and invoicing.
• Special Projects: lead process improvement initiatives and support office projects.

Skills

Financial analysis

Business analysis

Project leadership

Presentation & communication

Strategic thinking

Decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, aviation, or law

2+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Windows

Job description

About this position

Business and Accounting Analyst

Job Type: Full-Time | Salaried | Exempt | Onsite

Compensation: $70,000+ depending on experience

Join a Team Where Your Expertise Makes an Impact

This high-impact, cross-functional role plays an important part in supporting the Authority’s financial performance, operational efficiency, and strategic initiatives. Key responsibilities include financial forecasting, cash and investment analysis, business analysis, administrative project management, and capital grant reimbursements.

The position partners across the organization and supports the Omaha Airport Authority’s business office by improving administrative processes and systems, advancing strategic initiatives, and contributing to profitable and sustainable business performance.

The ideal candidate is collaborative, team-oriented, highly resourceful, and self-directed, with strong capabilities in financial and business analysis, project leadership, presentation and communication, strategic and qualitative thinking, and sound decision-making.

What You'll Do

Business Analysis

• Budgeting: Assist in preparation of annual budget, airline rates, charges, and fees for tenant agreements; periodic revenue budget and other special financial analysis.
• Balanced Score Card (BSC): Assist in BSC data and reporting including insights into key performance indicators (KPIs) including metrics that are financial (e.g., revenue, expense, cost per enplaned passenger, debt service coverage ratio) and non-financial (e.g., operational, air service, or customer service focused).
• Cash and Investments: Assist in reviewing and preparing monthly bank reconciliations of bond, cash and investment accounts. Maintain monthly reports related to the use and availability of bond proceeds and available liquid cash.

Monthly Accounting, Business and Capital Processes

• Parking: Review monthly revenue, expense, and contractor statements related to Authority’s largest revenue source. Assist in maintaining metrics and dashboards related to revenue, expenses, customer satisfaction, transactions, and other parking KPIs. Prepare and assist in necessary journal entries.
• Capital Grants: Prepare monthly federal and state grant drawdown reports including updating corresponding financial summary spreadsheets and supporting documentation. This includes monthly draws, quarterly and annual reporting, assisting in grant applications, and other related duties for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) related programs (AIP, IIAJ, PFCs), Transportation Security Administration grants, and state grants.
• Procurement: Enter capital contracts and expenditures into accounting system and maintain project financial summary spreadsheets related to project budget, change orders, and monthly invoicing. Review new vendor setup and insurance compliance.
• Lease Accounting: Assist in billing changes/advice notices to accounting, tracking lease agreement expiration and change management, and other lease related duties.

Special Projects / Business and Administrative Project Lead

• Assist in other business development initiatives.
• Assist with preparation and review of the other office work product for accuracy and provide functional redundancy.
• Perform other duties or special projects assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, aviation, or law and minimum 2-years of relevant experience. Interest in airport and / or airport management related field is beneficial.
• Strong leadership, communications, organizational, and management skills. Ability to solve problems and work both independently and efficiently with others. Ability to mentor and develop others.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage time effectively, establish priorities and complete projects in a timely fashion.
• Experience working with computer software programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Windows operating systems in conjunction with various internal software and ERP systems.
• Presents technical information and concepts clearly, convincingly, and effectively both orally and in writing to diverse groups of airline executives, local community, business organizations, and internal recipients.

What We Offer

• Paid time off and holidays
• Stable, collaborative work environment
• Opportunity to lead process improvements and contribute to organizational success

Salary Information

$70,000+ per year