Senior FP&A Analyst
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Job Summary
General information
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005050About us
At Aer Lingus we believe in going above and beyond to connect people places and possibilities. Whether working at the airport in our offices or at home - every employee has a role to play in making Aer Lingus the heart of travel to through and beyond Ireland for generations to come.
How do we do this We Put Safety First. Theres nothing more important. We Are Customer Focused. We champion the customer and go above and beyond to get things just right for them. Were Stronger Together. With a how can I help attitude we communicate and collaborate to achieve shared success. We Own It. We do what we say were going to do and always follow through. We Look Forward. We build the future by embracing change today.
What we offer
As well as offering you a competitive salary career advancement opportunities and staff travel benefits (with Aer Lingus and many other international airlines) you will also have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment and to join a team of amazing professionals who are passionate about the aviation industry. To learn more about the exciting benefits and opportunities that await you at Aer Lingus please visit our website.
At Aer Lingus we embrace diversity and believe in providing equal opportunities to all qualified individuals. We are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive and respectful work environment that values employees unique backgrounds experiences and perspectives. We do not discriminate based on race gender sexual orientation age disability or any other protected status. As an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all candidates who share our passion for aviation. If you have any questions or require any accommodations to support you in your application please contact us at
Role title
Senior FP&A Analyst
Your role
Aer Lingus Finance has an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team reporting to the FP&A Manager. The Senior FP&A Analyst role is integral to the remit of the FP&A function as owners of the budgeting forecasting and strategic planning models of the organisation. This role will be a trusted support for the FP&A Manager in addition to directly managing resources within the team.
The Senior FP&A analyst role will involve direct communication and engagement with Senior Management and Executives providing insightful and effective financial analysis. Such financial analysis will have varying degrees of complexity urgency and system dependency. They will also actively drive finance transformation (including evaluation of automation data management etc.) and support various Finance and Finance system improvement processes and projects.
This is a key role with a candidate joining an inclusive team working collaboratively with functional business areas in a hybrid working model.
Your responsibilities as a Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst will include:
- Lead financial forecasting and planning activities including collaboration across finance and wider business to ensure appropriate inputs assumptions and KPIs are received ensuring adequate challenge and testing.
- Take ownership for co-ordination collation and critical review of inputs from stakeholders both within and external to Finance ensuring accurate timely and appropriate information is shared.
- Review the core FP&A models and modelling processes and systems. This will include ensuring robustness and accuracy of data continuous development of capabilities automation and scalability of frameworks appropriateness of outputs and presentation of forecasting / modelling outcomes.
- Take ownership for outputs and reports (including excel submissions and presentations to Aer Lingus senior management and IAG) ensuring that submissions are made in line with timelines and that requests for further follow up analysis and insights are provided on a timely basis.
- Provide timely responses with an appropriate level of insight and alignment with current commercial and operational activity cost programmes business cases under review etc. to various stakeholder including Aer Lingus Executive / Senior Management and IAG Group Reporting and FP&A teams.
- Design and deploy processes reports interfaces etc. to significantly reduce the level of manual effort involved in report delivery (ad hoc reporting regular reporting month end business plans etc.).
- Train and mentor junior team members as well as managing at least one direct report.
Your qualifications and key criteria
We are looking for an individual with experience / qualifications in the following areas:
- Qualified accountant (ACA ACCA CIMA) or equivalent financial or economic qualification with minimum of 4 years PQE at publicly listed company or comparatively large private company.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience of presenting financial information to all levels of the organisation (including senior management).
- Focused attitude to work comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously with the ability to consistently meet deadlines while ensuring excellent attention to detail.
- Strong analytical ability and comfortable working with relatively large and complex data sets to extract key summary messages for decision making.
- Excellent understanding off all financial statements (particularly P&L Balance Sheet & Cashflows).
- Strong teamwork and partnership skills are essential to successfully performing this role.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office suite especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Fluentin English both written and spoken.
- Eligible to live and work in the EU.
- Hold a current unrestricted worldwide passport.
- Able topass an aviation security vetting process that includes an enhanced background check or be in possession of a current airside pass for the airport as this position is based in Dublin.
Closing Date: 8th December 2025.
At Aer Lingus we embrace diversity and believe in providing equal opportunities to all qualified individuals. We are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive and respectful work environment that values employees unique backgrounds experiences and perspectives. We do not discriminate based on race gender sexual orientation age disability or any other protected status. If you have any questions or require any accommodations to support you in your application please contact us at
Desirable criteria
Experience with planning tools such as IBM TMI or Anaplan.
Experience with ERP systems in particular SAP 4 Hana.
Knowledge of airline or aviation industry would be a distinct advantage.
People management experience
Division / Department
Finance - Finance Tax & Treasury
Contract type
employee recruitment - fixed term
Job location
Republic of Ireland Dublin Dublin
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Splunk
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- Microsoft Access
- SQL
- Cybersecurity
- Intelligence Experience
- Malware Analysis
- Tableau
- Analysis Skills
- SAS
- Data Analysis Skills
- Analytics
