FP&A Partner

This Financial Planning & Analyst (FP&A) Partner serves as a trusted financial advisor and subject matter expert, supporting Crew Planning and Crew hotel forecasting, including Crew hotels, Flight Attendant wages, and the Flight Instructor budget. This role provides strategic guidance by translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights that inform business decisions. Through a deep understanding of operational and financial drivers, the FP&A Partner delivers impactful recommendations, aligns forecasting models with business goals, and supports ad hoc initiatives such as Anaplan. This role is essential to driving financial clarity and operational efficiency across Southwest Airlines, helping leaders make informed decisions that support both People and performance.

• Serve as a strategic and financial partner with Department Leaders, Consultants, and/or Senior Partners in determining key strategic business objectives by influencing business decisions and by providing proactive recommendations, supported by strong financial analysis and “Storytelling”
• Participate in strategy development and planning, facilitate the financial planning processes, and develop metrics to monitor performance against strategic objectives
• Deliver timely financial analytics, provide insights into variances, and offer business counsel to measure business performance and strategic initiative progress, and interpret and make effective recommendations to Leadership using benchmarking, trends, and other planning methods
• Translate business and industry data into actionable insights and KPIs to ensure the best decision for Southwest
• Serve as a financial expert to multiple levels of Business Leadership by interpreting complex financial information and support the organization in decision-making, communication, and collaboration with key Stakeholders to ensure they are educated on trade-offs and downstream impacts of decisions
• Build compelling Executive level presentations, including Board of Directors and Earnings-related materials
• Monitors business performance and KPI’s
• Provide consultation services to leadership on the use and interpretation of analyses, reports, methodologies, and source data systems
• Support the businesses in executing its strategic/operational objectives and undertake ad hoc analyses and special projects
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee’s Leaders

• Knowledge of financial principles and practices and how to utilize them, and the analysis and reporting of financial data
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications
• Knowledge of financial modeling and data analytics
• Skilled in collecting, organizing, visualizing and assimilating data, including turning raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software
• Skilled in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• Skilled in understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
• Skilled and effective communicator that is engaged, considerate, listens to and guides their audience, takes time to ask questions and respond accordingly, speaks clearly, with confidence, and is gracious in their interactions
• Skilled in understanding and applying information to contribute to the organization’s strategic plan
• Ability to listen to, understand, and communicate ideas presented in writing and/or in speaking with others
• Ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem

• Fly for free on any open seat on all Southwest flights
• 401(k) with Company contributions up to 9.3%
• ProfitSharing contribution
• Competitive health insurance

We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.