General Description
The Pricing Intern plays an integral role in Aircastle’s business. This role evaluates the merits of acquisition, disposition, and management of aircraft deals.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
Member of the Pricing team headquartered in Stamford, CT. The essential functions of the job include but are not limited to:
- Prepare pricing models to evaluate the economics of aircraft purchases, sales and remarketing.
- Prepare maintenance models to evaluate the current and expected condition of aircraft and summarize the maintenance inflows, outflows and unsecured risk profiles.
- Evaluate and document commercial terms, unique features and risk profiles.
- Maintain comp data for all purchases, sales and remarketing transactions.
- Assist the Pricing team with proposals, LOIs, approval documents, etc.
- Develop and maintain financial models to support Aircastle’s strategic decisions.
- Provide assistance with research in regard to aircraft types, airline commitments, and industry activity.
- Coordinate with accounting, finance, and technical to identify efficient processes to cross-reference pricing and maintenance assumptions.
- Assist the accounting team with recoverability analysis.
- Assist on ad-hoc projects as needed.
- Support all departments with analytical support as necessary.
Position Requirements
Formal Education and Certification
- Junior in college, pursuing a BA/BS degree in Finance, Aviation, or related business field
Knowledge and Experience
- Prior internship experience and/or coursework with focus on complex financial modeling / analytics
- Advanced modeling and Excel skills
- Knowledge of the aviation industry and aircraft specifics is a plus
Competencies
- Ability to evaluate and interpret lease contracts
- Ability to anticipate, identify and resolve complex financial issues
- Strong oral and communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills and the ability to build solid relationships with colleagues and executive management
Travel
- This position requires little to no travel