Senior Analyst FP&A; Commercial

Position: Senior Analyst FP&A (Commercial)
Position Title:

Senior Analyst Financial Planning and Analysis – Commercial

Position Summary:

The Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis – Commercial supports Jet Blue's Commercial organization by building and maintaining the segment P&L used to measure route profitability, and by delivering financial analyses that enable the Commercial team to optimize the airline's network and schedules. This role connects route-level performance, network economics, and fleet decisions to financial outcomes by preparing forecasts, variance analysis, business cases, and executive-ready insights.

The Senior Analyst will partner closely with Commercial FP&A leadership, Network Planning, Scheduling, Revenue Management, Accounting, IT, and other Finance teams. The ideal candidate has strong SQL skills, experience in financial modeling, and the analytical rigor to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems, and clearly communicate findings to finance and commercial stakeholders. Airline experience is a plus but not required.

Essential Responsibilities:

Own and continuously improve the segment P&L used to measure route-level profitability, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of outputs

Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages that explain route and network financial performance, key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and variances to forecast, budget, and prior year

Use SQL, Python, Tableau, and Excel to extract, validate, summarize, and analyze large, complex commercial and financial datasets

Analyze drivers of route and network performance, including revenue trends, cost trends, capacity and schedule changes, and competitive dynamics

Build and maintain financial models to evaluate route profitability, network and schedule changes, and other Commercial investment decisions

Partner with Network Planning, Scheduling, Revenue Management, and other teams to understand analytical outputs and translate findings into financial implications, forecast updates, and business narratives

Support the development of financial forecasts, annual budgets, long-range plans, and business cases for network, schedule, and other Commercial initiatives

Lead ad hoc analyses requested by Commercial FP&A leadership and business partners, including opportunity sizing, sensitivity analysis, trend analysis, and scenario modeling

Identify data quality issues, process gaps, and reporting inefficiencies; recommend and help implement improvements to increase accuracy, consistency, and automation

Prepare materials for leadership discussions, including charts, variance explanations, and concise written commentary

Build strong working relationships across Commercial, Finance, Accounting, IT, and other business partner teams

Other duties as assigned

Minimum

Experience and Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Economics, Business, Finance, Accounting, or in a relevant field; OR demonstrated capability to perform job responsibilities with a combination of a High School Diploma/GED and at least four (4) years of previous relevant work experience

Three (3) years of experience in Finance, Commercial, Network Planning, Revenue Management, Analytics, Consulting, Accounting, or another business-oriented analytical role Strong SQL skills, including experience writing complex queries to extract, join, validate, and analyze data (e.g., Snowflake)
Experience using Python or other scripting languages to automate processes

Experience with Tableau or other data visualization tools

Experience with financial modeling, including building, maintaining, and improving models to support forecasting, business cases, or profitability analysis

Experience performing financial analysis, variance analysis,…