Analyst​/Sr Analyst, Planning and Analysis

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.

Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

• This job is a member of the Flight Training Team within the Integrated Operations Division.
• Responsible for analyzing pilot training data, automating MS Excel processes using SAS/SQL, building predictive models and creating customized dashboards for executive leaders.

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Responsible for analyzing data and building and maintaining predictive models that assist in determining current and future resource requirements for the department.
• Provides project management for resource determination and acquisition within the department
• Works cross functionally with various departments to investigate and resolve issues, evaluate proposals, or lead efficiency initiatives
• Uses data to develop recommendations on key decisions
• Works to identify business opportunities and quantify business impacts
• Automates & improves processes, reports, and forecasts
• Manipulates, cleans, and analyzes large structured and unstructured data from diverse sources; develops models to drive value for the department
• Finds useful relationships between different data domains, with the goal of improving operations
• Analyzes data through various statistical methodologies to understand key themes
• Conducts analyses and creates reports with key findings, charts and tables summarizing results
• Contributes to project deliverables by synthesizing key findings and analysis
• Develops and maintains an understanding of industry best practices

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or Technology or equivalent years of experience
• 3 years of experience in Finance, Business, Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Operations research, Statistics, or other related field.

Preferred Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• 4 years of related experience
• Experience in successfully managing a variety of significant cross-functional projects in parallel

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Advanced analytical skills
• Aptitude for logical analysis, problem identification, and problem solving
• Experience using innovative thinking ability with high degree of motivation and problem-solving skills
• Ability to persuasively present thoughts both formally and informally
• Strong interpersonal skills in working with internal and external colleagues
• Ability to demonstrate well-developed strategic thinking and a customer service orientation
• Ability to quickly understand enterprise and department objectives
• Ability to build trust and strong relationships with business partners
• Work well in fast paced environment
• Self-motivated (Drives to results)
• Able to prioritize workload, assume responsibility for work and follow through to completion
• Adaptable and comfortable with change
• Ability to deliver high quality work on time
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to guide a team by creating and fostering collaboration

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks:
  Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits:
  
  On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the…