Norse Atlantic Airways is an airline that offers affordable fares on long-haul flights, primarily between Europe and the United States. The company was founded by CEO and major shareholder Bjørn Tore Larsen in March 2021. Norse has a fleet of 15 modern, fuel-efficient and more environmentally friendly Boeing 787 Dreamliners that serve destinations including New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orlando, Miami, Cape Town, Bangkok, Oslo, Athens, London, Berlin, Rome and Paris. The company's first flight took off from Oslo to New York on June 14, 2022.

We have made a new role based with our technical team at Gardermoen, reporting to the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis located in Arendal, with great challenges!

As an international airline, we have huge operating and technical costs, and consequently we also might have huge opportunities for improved efficiencies, processes, and cost savings. This is where you come into the equation.

Joining Team Norse is more than getting a job. It is all about belonging

Responsibilities and duties

We are looking for a smart, curious, and analytical person who has the guts to challenge everything we do, and will love challenges like – can you:

• Optimize our technical operations maintenance cost and present a plan to reduce cost without compromising on safety.
• Analyze economic consequences by selecting a new supplier for technical operations.
• Analyze and optimize revenue streams in technical operations and provide guidance on potential opportunities.
• Follow up of obligations and opportunities in Norse Technical agreements and contracts.
• Identify, monitor, and provide analysis on KPIs, to support increased efficiency.

In addition to these challenges your day-to-day job will include tasks like:

• Provide financial insights and analysis to support business planning and decision making.
• Lead the forecasting and budgeting process and variance analysis and reporting.
• Analyze trends to identify opportunities for improvement and savings.
• Invoicing and follow up of technical operations customers.
• Identify risks and opportunities, making recommendations for continual progress and improvement.
• Business partnering with other functional teams and external parties.
• Ad-hoc financial and cost analysis. Other duties and tasks as assigned.

Do you see patterns and possibilities where others see only bits and data? Then Norse is looking for you. Solving challenges and improving efficiencies would have a significant impact on our operational profitability, and this position would play a significant role in achieving such objectives and the impact on the Norse would be substantial.

Required qualifications and certifications

• Around 5 years in a position such as Business Control, Cost Controller or Financial Analyst
• Bachelor’s degree: Finance/Engineering/Business Administration/Economics, or similar
• High level of curiosity and an itching urge to find out things.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Advanced experience in MS Excel
• Airline, aviation, or technical operations experience is preferred.

We offer

• Excellent working environment at Flyporten / Gardermoen
• Great colleges giving you all the technical inputs you can dream of
• Competitive Salary, pension scheme and medical insurance
• Excellent travel benefits with Norse and other partner Airlines
• Unlimited growth possibilities in an airline with a great future