Finance Planning Analyst Job at Uganda Airlines

Reports to: Manager Financial Planning and analysis

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and consolidate financial forecasts and budgets.
• Analyze current and past trends in key performance indicators across departments and the entire organization.
• Analyze data to facilitate understanding of drivers and identification of opportunities.
• Analyze financial results, and distill and synthesize key messages to business partners.
• Analyze profit and loss statements and prepare reports and recommendations for review and submission by the manager FP&A.
• Analyze, interpret, and communicate cost and expense variances to management.
• Anticipate actions and provide value add to projects and other initiatives to the organization at large.
• Assist in capital spend analysis, providing detailed budget performance to senior management.
• Monitor project performance by performing post-implementation reviews and tracking delivery against agreed Key performance indicators.
• Assist in the monthly accounting and closing process.
• Perform price analysis and communicate optimal pricing for passenger, charters, and cargo businesses.
• Complete ad-hoc requests across all product lines, maintain data models and long-term financial projections
• Support individual product lines in selected financial analysis projects.
• Assist in the development of strategic plans, annual operating plans, and budgets of the respective departments.
• Build and analyze medium and long-term plans aligned to strategy.
• Create and maintain business KPI performance reporting, dashboards and value-added analysis.
• Create financial models to improve operational budgeting and sensitivity analysis.
• Assist in the creation of new product business cases, and develop financial models and reports to improve forecasting and reporting processes.

Education and Experience

• Must hold a degree in Finance, business administration, statistics or related field.
• Professional Accounting qualification is an added advantage (CA/CPA/CMA/CFA).
• Possess good business acumen.
• 2-3 years experience in a similar position. Airline experience is an added advantage
• Good presentation skills utilizing Microsoft Office tools and any others as may be required.
• Good communication and leadership skills to drive ownership and accountability.

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