Company Alaska Airlines
The Team
Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.
Role Summary
The Finance Transformation Manager is a subject matter expert in the design and improvement of accounting processes and tools. As an individual contributor, this role leads the design and execution of short and long-term system and process strategy, including cross-collaboration with teams throughout the Finance and Information Technology organizations to drive sustainable process improvements, including modernization of systems and processes, while maintaining compliance with necessary control frameworks.
Key Duties
Partners with the Director to identify, scope and prioritize projects within the overarching transformation roadmap to drive near-term improvements consistent with the long-term strategy.
Exercises considerable latitude and initiative to evaluate and analyze existing accounting and finance processes to identify opportunities for improvement, efficiency and automation.
Designs and makes decisions on new accounting processes, focused on driving increased efficiency and modernization while maintaining compliance with relevant SOX and financial control policies.
Drives cross-organizational and cross-functional teams to develop and implement new or improved systems and processes that deliver significant and successful changes to the accounting organization.
Identifies where change management strategies are required over process and people changes across the organization to ensure successful adoption and leads change management within the organization.
Resolves risks and other business challenges to modernization initiatives, including identifying mitigation strategies and influencing stakeholder adoption.
Defines and manages data-driven dashboards based on organizational objectives to identify, track and measure program successes and value creation.
Effectively communicates to senior and executive leaders progress on transformation projects and priorities.
Influences across the accounting organization, including multiple levels up, to promote a culture of process improvement that fosters the organic generation of future initiatives on a consistent basis.
Provides training and support to accounting teams to ensure appropriate skills and knowledge are shared to foster adoption of new processes and technologies.
Maintains expertise of finance modernization trends, existing and future tool capabilities, and modernization progress in other areas of the organization to best provide recommendations for future finance transformation projects.
Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills
Required
7 years of experience in accounting, finance, project management, change management, or process improvement.
Bachelor's degree with a focus in accounting, finance, or a related discipline, or an additional two years of training/experience in lieu of this degree.
Proven project and change management skills, and the ability to apply research and best practices to existing business problems.
Excellent communication and people skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Experience using a data-driven approach for decision making and solution implementation.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Minimum age of 18.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Preferred
Experience with Oracle Cloud, Blackline, Workiva or other financial tools.
Exhibits deep business acumen that allows for quick development of strong relationships with senior leaders to effectively influence and collaborate to meet organizational needs.
Job-Specific Leadership Expectations
Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable.
Possess an innovative and solutions-focused mindset, with the ability to cut through complexity and ambiguity, prioritize effectively, set clear goals, and operate in an agile fashion.
Salary Range
$138,500 - $207,750 / year
Salary Details
Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Horizon employees. Alaska/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.
Note: We don't typically hire at the top of the range.
Total Rewards
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.
Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
Generous 401k match program
Quarterly and annual bonus plans
Generous holiday and paid time off
For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.
FLSA Status Exempt
Employment Type Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Requisition Type Management
Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on 8/20/2025
Location Seattle - Corporate HQ
Regulatory Information Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement It is the policy of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.
We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ("Section 503") and the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 ("VEVRAA"). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.
To implement this policy, we will:
(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;
(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and
(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA.
Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT - regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.
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Job Locations USA-WA-SeaTac
Requisition ID 2025-16590
Category Corporate & Operations
