- Salary
- $55 – $75/hr
- Location
- Santa Barbara
- Type
- Contract
- Department
- Finance
- Seniority
- Senior
Description
Senior FP&A & Finance Operations Consultant — Contract
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Santa Barbara
Compensation: $55.00 - $75.00 / hour
Description
Silver Air Private Jets is seeking an experienced Senior FP&A & Finance Operations Consultant for a focused project engagement supporting our Finance organization.
The immediate objective is to complete and operationalize Silver Air's departmental budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and cost-control processes while creating a sustainable framework that can be owned internally.
This is a hands-on execution role. We are looking for someone who can enter an active finance environment, quickly understand the work already underway, identify what is preventing completion, and get the highest-priority projects across the finish line.
What You'll Own
Budgeting & Forecasting
- Complete and validate departmental budgets across approximately 13 functional areas
- Consolidate departmental budgets into a company-wide operating budget
- Develop and refine forecasts across the P&L
- Support current-year forecasting and establish a repeatable framework for future annual planning
- Establish monthly budget-to-actual and variance reporting
- Partner directly with department leaders to validate assumptions, understand variances, and establish budget accountability
Management Reporting & Financial Operations
- Assess and improve existing management financial reporting
- Help Finance produce timely, decision-useful P&L and departmental reporting
- Identify reporting, accounting, data, or process issues preventing reliable and timely financial information
- Support reconciliation, account mapping, departmental allocation, and reporting cleanup where necessary to make the budgeting and reporting processes reliable
Cost Control & Procurement
- Analyze the P&L for material spending trends, variances, and cost-reduction opportunities
- Evaluate recurring vendor and contract spend for cost justification and potential savings
- Help establish a disciplined framework for evaluating proposed expenditures and measuring financial results
- Identify opportunities where procurement discipline, contract review, or improved expense controls could create measurable savings
Systems & Process
- Work within Silver Air's existing finance technology environment, including Sage X3, Ramp, Rippling, and Excel
- Review Ramp expense coding, departmental mapping, reconciliation, and GL treatment
- Support payroll and labor-cost mapping where relevant to departmental budgets and forecasting
- Identify system or configuration issues affecting financial reporting and document required remediation
- Maximize existing system capabilities rather than defaulting to additional software
Manager Enablement
- Work directly with department leaders to explain budgets, forecasts, variances, and financial expectations
- Create practical tools and processes managers can use independently
- Help transition budgeting from a Finance-owned exercise to an accountable department-management process
- Document workflows and transfer knowledge to the internal Finance team
What We're Looking For
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, Finance Operations, Controllership, or senior accounting/finance consulting
- Demonstrated hands-on experience building budgets, forecasts, management reporting, and variance analysis
- Strong understanding of the P&L and cost-control disciplines
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong ERP/general-ledger experience
- Experience working directly with operational leaders outside of Finance
- Ability to distinguish accounting/data issues from process and management-accountability issues
- Ability to enter an imperfect environment, prioritize quickly, and execute with limited supervision
- Strong communication and project-management discipline
Highly Preferred
- Direct Sage X3 experience
- Experience with GL structures, departmental/dimensional accounting, budget reporting, period close, reconciliations, and financial reporting
- Ramp experience, including expense coding, reconciliation, departmental allocation, and ERP integration
- Payroll-to-GL experience; Rippling experience is a plus
- Procurement, vendor-spend, or cost-optimization experience
- Experience in aviation, transportation, hospitality, or another operationally complex service environment
Engagement Structure
The initial engagement is expected to be 2–4 weeks, with a target milestone of October 18, 2026.
Silver Air is open to an on-site, hybrid, or remote consultant depending on experience and demonstrated ability to work independently and responsively. Candidates within reasonable proximity to Santa Barbara who can periodically work on-site are preferred.
Benefits
We care deeply about making Silver Air an incredible place to work. We invest significant time and energy into creating and maintaining a company culture that provides our team with great support while inspiring them to do their best work.
The specific benefits/perks we offer are continually evolving but currently include:
- Unlimited PTO
- Fully paid for Health Insurance coverage for you and your family
- Generous personal development and employee assistance programs
- Top-of-the-line equipment (Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo, etc.)
- Flexible leadership team
- Competitive salary with regular pay reviews
Skills
ExcelERPProcurement
