Chief Financial Officer; CFO – Airport Authority Executive Leadership

Position: Chief Financial Officer (CFO) – Airport Authority Executive Leadership Opportunity

Under the general direction of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) serves as a senior executive and key member of the Airport Authority’s leadership team. Through direct and indirect reports, the CFO provides oversight and direction for the Authority’s business and administrative operations, including finance oversight, human resources, information technology, administration, purchasing, and property management. The CFO partners closely with the Controller to ensure sound financial management while focusing on governance, compliance, organizational effectiveness, and strategic planning.

This role serves as a trusted advisor to the CEO and Board of Directors, supporting business development, risk management, capital planning, and stakeholder coordination. The CFO promotes accountability, transparency, and service excellence across the organization and ensures alignment with applicable regulations, Authority policies, and long-term strategic objectives. This position will remain open for 30 days. Résumés will be reviewed beginning January 31, 2026.

Duties

and Responsibilities Provides general leadership and management support to the CEO as well as direct and indirect reports

• Interpretation and compliance with Authority policies and procedures including the Bylaws, Employee Handbook, Authority SOPs and those SOPs developed as a result of the strategic business plan, Minimum Standards, and active Board Resolutions & Ordinances.
• Develops and instills the department’s vision, goals, and objectives within the executive team. Trains, educates, motivates, and supervises each employee in the department in their essential duties and responsibilities to enable successful attainment.
• Establishes and reviews performance standards, sets individual goals and objectives and measures individual performance within the department.
• Supports the organizational leadership by actively seeking out and identifying methods to improve productivity, offering solutions, support organizational goals and objectives by attending and being actively involved in appropriate management meetings and training sessions.
• Responsible for ensuring regulatory, legal, and managerial compliance of all financial and administrative activities.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with various airport users, tenants, and business partners as well as governmental agencies to ensure smooth, ongoing financial and administrative operations.
• Establishes benchmark comparisons with other airports to measure team performance.
• Maintains and supports a high level of customer service to peers, partners, and customers.
• Key advisor to and administrator of the airport business development plan.
• May act as CEO in CEO's absence.
• Other duties as appropriate from the job descriptions of both direct and indirect reports.
• Other assignments and/or duties as directed by a member of management.

Provides general leadership and management support to the Finance and Accounting function

• With input from all departments, facilitates the development of the annual Airport budget.
• Oversees developing/maintaining the Authority’s financial model.
• Monitors, tracks, and reports on the financial health of the Authority monthly to the CEO.
• Develops and directs investment of available funds to ensure the greatest return to promote the financial well‑being of the Authority.
• Analyzes trends, develops forecasts and contingency plans, and advises the CEO on all financial matters relating to Authority’s operations.
• Serves as the Airport’s Chief Financial Officer by assuming responsibility for providing financial leadership and fiscal responsibility.
• Assumes responsibility for developing, recommending, and implementing such internal accounting and financial controls and programs as are necessary to preserve and expand corporate assets.
• Assumes responsibility for the effective maintenance and reporting of financial records.
• Represents Airport interests in all bond issuance matters.
• Ensures compliance with all regulations and requirements of bond ordinances connected with bonds issued by the Authority.
• Directs the regulatory and financial compliance of…