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Sun Country Airlines is seeking a Crew Planner to be responsible for the accurate reporting of crewmember paid hours each month. Crew Planners provide daily data entry, pay processing, and employee customer service. They also execute the distribution of monthly bid packages, schedule awards, and general administration support of all Crew Planning activities.

Responsibilities

  • Publish, award, and transition monthly crew schedules by contractually dictated deadlines
  • Plans and administers crew vacation bidding
  • Collaborate with other departments to balance offline crew resource requests with staffing demands
  • Manage eligibility to bid list each month
  • Coordinates monthly schedule construction
  • Reconciles payroll and provides all crewmember payroll data to the Sun Country Airlines Payroll department
  • Provide payroll documentation to the crew members
  • Responds to and investigates associate emails and phone calls regarding pay issues and discrepancies
  • Produces and audits daily reports from the crew scheduling software system and makes corrections as necessary
  • Manages the workflow of payroll processes
  • Tracks new hires, terminations, and transfers to ensure correct pay
  • Trains and supports departmental new hires and temps; fields questions in supervisor absence
  • Analyze, optimize, produce, and publish contractual and Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) legal crew patterns and crew schedules
  • Analyze future flight schedules and provide input on changes to lower cost and increase crew productivity
  • Monitor, analyze, and report on performance against plan to support continuous improvement
  • Extract payroll and productivity KPI data from current systems to identify cost opportunities
  • Perform ad-hoc data mining and analysis

Requirements

  • Previous work experience that includes basic accounting, percentages, basic statistical inferences, and/or ratios
  • High analytical aptitude
  • Ability to read, analyze/interpret, and make suggestions on pairing and crew schedule utilization
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid and convincing conclusions
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
  • Ability to meet various deadlines under time constraints
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively

Nice-to-haves

  • Previous work experience in Payroll, Crew Pay/Planning, Accounting, and/or Finance
  • Previous Airline experience
  • AIMS, Preferential Bid, S3RUS experiences preferred

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
  • PPO and high deductible health plans
  • Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)
  • Dependent Care
  • Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
  • 401(k) match
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid holidays
  • Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
  • Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support
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