About This Role
An Analyst, FP&A supports the budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and decision-making processes for Air Transport Services Group and its business units. This position involves preparing financial plans, management reports, and variance analyses that leadership uses to operate the business, as well as providing ad hoc analytical support for operational, commercial, and capital decisions. The role offers broad exposure across ATSG
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 review milestones on the enterprise planning calendar and maintain version control of planning files and outputs
- Prepare recurring monthly and quarterly reporting packages, including financial statements, key performance indicators, 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 enterprise resource planning environment and business unit source systems
- Apply the ATSG key performance indicator 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
