Senior Analyst - Accounting & Transformation (H...

Description We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow at United across our collaborative Finance teams consisting of Financial Planning & Analysis, Internal Audit, Treasury, Global Procurement, Controllership, Investor Relations and more. These teams provide the financial fuel that keeps our operation running from providing detailed analyses of financial planning, performance, and forecasts to managing our investments and financial strategies. Our Finance team plays an integral role in making our airline profitable and successful by meeting our financial goals. Job overview and responsibilities The Senior Analyst - Accounting & Transformation role combines strong technical accounting skills with a focus on process improvement, digital transformation, and change management. The ideal candidate will be proactive in identifying opportunities and supporting initiatives to optimize ongoing processes, implement automation, and enhance the overall efficiency and accuracy of our financial operations while ensuring compliance with accounting rules. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment within an evolving industry. This position, in part, will support the monthly close process and preparation of financial reports as well as other day-to-day accounting related activities that can include ad hoc reporting and analysis on trends/KPIs of business data and collaboration with business partners to early-detect anomalies. In addition, this role will support and independently monitor continuous improvement opportunities and business process redesign initiatives with the objective to improve efficiencies, elevate the division's ability to provide insight to our business partners and gain transparency into trends in financial data