Senior Consultant - Finance

Overview

This role involves building the financial models and analyses used to support airport capital programs, financing strategies, and airline rate and charge decisions.

The work includes supporting feasibility studies for General Airport Revenue Bonds, PFC-backed bonds, special facility bonds, rental car facility bonds, and FAA Letter of Intent bonds, for clients across the U.S. and internationally (including Canada, South America, and the Caribbean). Engagements may require direct support of rate-model development, scenario testing, and drafting financial chapters used by airport executives, airlines, and rating agencies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain models behind financial feasibility studies, capital funding analyses, and airline rates and charges studies.
• Develop multi-year revenue and expense projections, operating and capital budgets, and debt service schedules reflecting real use agreements, bond covenants, and industry benchmarks.
• Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and variance analysis; explain drivers of changes in results in plain terms.
• Prepare financial analysis behind PFC and CFC programs, federal grant strategy, and alternative funding sources for client capital programs.
• Support rate-setting methodology decisions, cost allocation, and airline lease and use agreement negotiations; partner on bond feasibility work alongside bond counsel, underwriters, and rating agencies.
• Write client-ready reports and present findings, including memoranda and financial chapters of master plans delivered to airport leadership and governing bodies.

Requirements

• 5–7 years in financial analysis, modeling, and budgeting.
• Demonstrated depth in one of two directions:
  • Airport, airline, aviation authority, or aviation consulting experience with a working command of airport funding and rate setting; or
  • Ownership and defense of complex, multi-year financial models and budgets.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills, including multi-tab models, scenario and sensitivity work, and assumptions that can be documented.
• Experience in a rate-based or regulated environment, such as municipal or public finance, infrastructure, transportation, utilities— including working knowledge of bond structures, debt service coverage, and rate covenants.
• Strong communication skills to translate model outputs into recommendations in writing and in meetings with executives and public stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, aviation management, mathematics, or statistics, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Airport or consulting firm experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• $120,000 – $140,000 annually

Location

• Remote, with travel expectations 10% of the time to client sites, conferences, and company offices.

Physical & Environmental Requirements

• Ordinary ambulatory skills to move around the office and visit other locations.
• Ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate light to medium weights (10–50 pounds).
• Good hand-eye coordination, dexterity, and visual acuity for keyboard work and reading technical documentation.
• Frequently sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and listen.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

• The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
• Reasonable accommodations will be provided in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.