Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

About the Position

Ryanair, over our 40-year history, has grown to become Europe's largest airline group, connecting more guests across more routes than any other European carrier. We are a fast-paced, ambitious, and innovative company, offering exciting career opportunities across aviation, technology, operations, and support functions. Now is a fantastic time to join us as we look to grow to over 800 aircraft and 300 million guests within the next 8 years.

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Commercial Finance Analyst to join Europe's Favourite Airline Group.

This is an excellent time to join Ryanair as we look to grow to over 800 aircraft and 300 million guests per year within the next 10 years. This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and commercially astute individual who has excellent financial analysis skills to join our Commercial Performance team. The successful candidate will be integral to our growth plans as they continually review and optimize our network performance, ensuring that our most profitable routes are prioritized, allowing us to grow to over 4000 flights per day.

The Commercial Performance Team is a small team with high value and impact on the overall business. You will have exposure to all levels and senior management to make a major contribution in helping us achieve our growth target of 300 million passengers by 2034.

Supporting the senior commercial team, the successful candidate will:

• Continually analyze and identify new opportunities to improve financial performance, including detailed modeling of potential benefits and costs.
• Responsible for performance improvement projects, including developing and maintaining analytical models and effectively communicating the results.
• Propose and evaluate new business/route opportunities, including forecast profitability and break-even analysis for new routes.
• Prepare competitor and market analysis reports for the senior commercial team.
• Assist in preparing detailed monthly management reports, including route profitability, which form the basis for all capacity allocation decisions.
• Analyze and challenge proposed new airport deals.

Responsibilities

• Continually analyze and identify new opportunities to improve financial performance, including detailed modeling of potential benefits and costs.
• Responsible for performance improvement projects, including developing and maintaining analytical models and effectively communicating the results.
• Propose and evaluate new business/route opportunities, including forecast profitability and break-even analysis for new routes.
• Prepare competitor and market analysis reports for the senior commercial team.
• Assist in preparing detailed monthly management reports, including route profitability, which form the basis for all capacity allocation decisions.
• Analyze and challenge proposed new airport deals.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in an accounting, commercial, financial, or analytical role.
• Candidates who hold an ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent will be highly regarded.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to effectively communicate financial data and insights.
• Accuracy and strong attention to detail.
• Excellent Excel skills.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Discounted and unlimited travel to over 250 destinations.
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme – Matched up to 5% or €5,000.
• Death in Service Benefit – Up to 2 times the annual basic salary.
• 20 Days Annual Leave – Increasing to 22 days after 12 months and 25 days after 3 years of continuous service.
• Option for up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year.
• Cycle 2 Work Scheme.
• Unrivalled career progression.

About the Company

Ryanair, over our 40-year history, has grown to become Europe's largest airline group, connecting more guests across more routes than any other European carrier. We are a fast-paced, ambitious, and innovative company, offering exciting career opportunities across aviation, technology, operations, and support functions. Now is a fantastic time to join us as we look to grow to over 800 aircraft and 300 million guests within the next 8 years.