Sr FP&A Partner

Job Summary: All of Southwest’s People come together to deliver on our Purpose; Connecting People to what’s important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel. The Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Partner delivers on our Purpose by playing quarterback across multiple Teams to consolidate forecasts, challenge assumptions, and lead discussions that sharpen financial clarity. This role acts as a subject matter expert and trusted business and financial advisor to Senior and Executive Leadership, and partners to improve business efficiency by providing recommendations to accomplish strategic objectives. The Senior FP&A Partner is a self-starter who is strategic, detail-oriented, and excited to bring their experience to an important Team, where they’ll have the opportunity to help drive the future of Southwest.

• Serve as an influential key advisor to Sr Leadership for complex and business-critical areas
• Develop and define frameworks for ensuring alignment with Companywide financial goals and objectives
• Design, develop, and drive the adoption of short-term and long-term financial risk management policies, processes, and procedures
• Translate complex business and industry data into easy to comprehend insights and KPIs to influence and ensure the best decision for Southwest
• Serve as an expert to Sr Leadership by interpreting complex financial information to influence/guide organizational decision-making, communicate, and collaborate with key Stakeholders to ensure they are educated on trade-offs and downstream impacts of decisions and develops/ensure associated risk mitigation
• Drive and influence performance through a comprehensive understanding of operational, financial, environmental, and/or industry business drivers and variables
• Build and deliver compelling Executive level presentations, including Board of Directors and Earnings-related materials
• Support and influence businesses in executing their strategic, operational objectives and undertaking ad hoc analyses and special projects
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee’s Leaders

• 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 principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits
• Skilled in understanding and utilizing financial principles and practices and the analysis and reporting of complex financial data
• 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 and applying information to contribute to the organization’s strategic plan
• 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, guides, and influences their audience, takes time to ask questions and respond accordingly, speaks clearly, with confidence, and is gracious in their interactions
• Ability to listen to, understand, and communicate ideas presented in writing and/or in speaking with others

• Competitive market salary from $128,350 per year to $142,600 per year
• 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. The culture of Southwest Airlines means we value the camaraderie, collaboration, and innovation that occurs when we come together and interact face-to-face at our vibrant Corporate Campus. Due to the nature of this role, you would be required to work from our Dallas, TX headquarters facility during business hours.