About This Role
This senior leadership opportunity is for an executive who will lead the administrative, operational, and financial management activities of a global aviation consulting firm. The role involves translating business strategy into measurable results by providing operating discipline, financial insight, and cross-functional coordination, and reports to both the President and Chief Financial Officer.
Responsibilities
- Lead business administration, planning, and organizational effectiveness
- Partner with the President to implement strategic priorities and annual operating plans
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and performance analysis in alignment with the CFO
- Monitor revenue, profitability, backlog, utilization, project margins, working capital, and cash flow
- Strengthen project financial management, commercial discipline, and operational controls
- Identify business risks, performance gaps, and improvement opportunities, and coordinate corrective action
- Establish effective leadership routines, dashboards, reporting, and decision-making processes
- Coordinate with corporate functions, including Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Risk, Information Technology, and Marketing
- Support organizational design, workforce planning, business transformation, and change initiatives
- Lead assigned administrative, operational, and financial support teams
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, operations, or a related field
- Significant senior-level experience in operations, finance, administration, or business leadership
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment with dual or functional reporting relationships
- Proven experience leading cross-functional initiatives, organizational change, and business process improvement
- Strong executive communication, judgment, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, project economics, profitability, utilization, working capital, and financial controls
Nice to have:
- MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent designation
- Experience in a professional services, consulting, engineering, aviation, infrastructure, or project-based organization
Benefits
- Extensive medical, disability, and life insurance coverage
- Continuing education benefits
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance program
- Retirement savings plan with company matching contributions
About the Company
Landrum & Brown is a global aviation consulting firm with over 70 years of experience serving airports and other aviation clients across all seven continents. Its practice includes planning and development services such as activation planning, airfield and airspace, business and finance, commercial development, environmental, ground transportation, master planning and strategy, and terminal planning and design.
