Description
Summary Overview
The Senior Director of Finance provides strategic financial leadership and oversight across the organization, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and effectiveness of financial reporting, planning, forecasting, and business performance management. This role has broad responsibility for leading finance activities, strengthening financial processes and controls, and driving financial discipline and accountability across the Company's operations.
The Senior Director serves as a key business partner to executive leadership and operational stakeholders, translating financial results and business trends into actionable insights, recommendations, and strategies. The position requires a strong combination of financial expertise, operational understanding, leadership capability, and sound business judgment to influence decision-making, improve profitability, optimize resource allocation, and support the Company's overall strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership and oversight of assigned finance functions, establishing priorities, objectives, and performance expectations aligned with the Company's financial and operational goals.
Lead, develop, and mentor finance leaders and their teams, building organizational capabilities, strengthening accountability, and ensuring appropriate talent development and succession planning.
Oversee the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting, management reporting packages, and financial analysis.
Direct the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting activities, partnering with executive and operational leadership to establish realistic financial objectives, challenge assumptions, and ensure alignment with business priorities.
Lead the analysis of financial results against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, identifying underlying business drivers, emerging trends, risks, and opportunities. Translate findings into recommendations and actionable improvement plans.
Establish and monitor financial performance metrics and key performance indicators across the organization, including profitability, labor productivity, operating expenses, working capital, and overall operating performance.
Partner closely with Operations and other functional leaders to evaluate station-, customer-, and contract-level financial performance, identify improvement opportunities, and drive sustainable margin expansion and cost efficiency.
Provide financial leadership and commercial insight in evaluating business opportunities, customer contracts, pricing decisions, staffing models, capital expenditures, and other strategic initiatives.
Lead financial modeling, scenario analysis, and business case development to support strategic planning, resource allocation, investment decisions, and operational initiatives.
Establish and strengthen financial policies, procedures, internal controls, and governance practices to ensure consistency, transparency, and compliance across the organization.
Drive continuous improvement of financial systems, reporting capabilities, and business processes, including opportunities for automation, standardization, data integrity, and scalability.
Identify financial and operational risks, proactively communicate potential impacts, and develop recommendations to mitigate exposure and improve business performance.
Lead or support major cross-functional initiatives, business integrations, organizational transformation, and other strategic projects as required.
Prepare and deliver financial presentations, performance reviews, forecasts, and strategic recommendations to executive leadership and the Board of Directors.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior management, exercising independent judgment and constructively challenging business assumptions to support informed decision-making.
Establish clear ownership and accountability for financial deliverables, ensuring that the finance organization consistently meets reporting deadlines, analytical requirements, and business partner expectations.
Perform other responsibilities and special projects as assigned by management.
QUALIFICATIONS
Must be at least 18 years of age.
Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.
Ability to work onsite in an office environment, Monday through Friday.
Must hold a valid driver's license.
Ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required.
Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive finance or accounting experience, with significant experience in leadership and management roles.
Demonstrated experience leading finance teams and overseeing financial activities within a multi-location, multi-entity, or operationally complex organization.
Extensive knowledge of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial planning and analysis, variance analysis, and internal controls.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial and operational data into meaningful business insights and actionable recommendations.
Proven track record of partnering with senior executives and operational leadership to influence business decisions, improve financial performance, and drive organizational accountability.
Strong understanding of operational drivers of profitability, cost management, labor productivity, and financial performance.
Demonstrated ability to lead organizational improvements, implement scalable processes, and enhance financial systems and reporting capabilities.
Strong leadership, communication, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a dynamic environment.
Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with colleagues, customers, executive leadership, and the Board of Directors.
CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred.
Experience in aviation services, transportation, logistics, or other multi-location service organizations preferred.
Ability to pass a background check and drug screen.
Flexibility to work extended hours occasionally to support operational needs.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential requirement satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the work environment, knowledge, skill, and/or ability. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential requirements.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY / WORKING CONDITIONS MAY INCLUDE
Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
The position is generally sedentary and involves sitting for extended periods.
Ability to hear and respond to spoken communication and audible alarms.
Tasks may involve repetitive movements of the arms, wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
Specific vision abilities required for this position include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
The pay rate listed on this post is what the Company reasonably expects to pay for this position. However, individual compensation may vary based on factors including qualifications, skills, competencies, education, and experience.
PrimeFlight Aviation Services, Inc. is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions without regard to any status protected under applicable federal, state/province, or local laws.
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