The Manager of Administration & Finance Services is responsible for the financial stewardship, administrative governance, and corporate procurement strategies of the airport. This role ensures the fiscal health of the airport through strict budgetary control, optimized capital expenditure (CapEx) tracking, robust revenue collection (both aeronautical and non-aeronautical), and compliance with international accounting standards. Additionally, this role oversees back-office corporate functions, including Human Resources administration, contract management, and legal services.
Job Description
Responsibilities
Fiscal Budgeting: Lead the formulation, consolidation, and monitoring of the airport’s annual Operational Expenditure (OpEx) and Capital Expenditure (CapEx) budgets across all departments.
Aeronautical & Commercial Billing: Oversee the billing and collection systems for airline landing/parking fees, passenger service charges (PFCs), and concessionaire revenue-share audits to ensure zero revenue leakage.
Financial Reporting: Prepare and present accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements (Balance Sheets, P&L, Cash Flow) in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the board and executive stakeholders.
Yield & Variance Analysis: Perform deep-dive cost-benefit analyses on airport infrastructure projects and investigate budget variances
Procurement & Supply Chain Governance
Tender & Contract Oversight: Manage the corporate procurement framework and supply chain policy for the airport. Review and validate high-value vendor contracts, service agreements, and equipment purchases.
Cost Controls: Implement sourcing policies to optimize corporate purchasing power, managing relationship frameworks with external suppliers, financial auditors, and banking partners.
Corporate Administration, HR & Legal Affairs
Administrative Operations: Direct the airport’s central administrative services, including corporate record management, IT back-office infrastructure, and facility office management.
HR Administration Support: Oversee payroll administration, employee benefits frameworks, labor union compliance, and administrative corporate policy updates.
Legal & Risk Compliance: Liaise with legal counsel to manage insurance portfolios (including complex aviation liability insurance), manage pending litigations, and ensure total compliance with corporate law and tax regulations.
Education & Experience
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration.
Experience:
7–10 years of financial and administrative management experience, preferably within a capital-intensive industry (e.g., airports, airlines, transport infrastructure, logistics or civil engineering firms), with at least 3 years in a corporate leadership role
Track Record:
Proven success in managing corporate budgets, executing clean corporate financial audits, and overseeing large-scale procurement tenders.
Skills & Competencies
Advanced Financial Modeling: Expert proficiency in financial forecasting, asset depreciation models, and revenue infrastructure calculations.
ERP System Experience: Practical knowledge of enterprise resource planning software.
Regulatory Tax & Accounting Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of IFRS, international corporate taxation laws, and standard airport economic regulatory frameworks.
High-Level Integrity & Discretion: Exceptional moral and ethical standing required to manage sensitive corporate assets, payroll data, and proprietary board strategies.
Additional advantageous skills
Professional qualifications such as CPA, CMA, ACCA, or Chartered Accountant (CA) is highly preferred.
Reports to
Disciplinary reports to:
Airport Director
Functional reports to:
Group Structure
Direct reports
Administrative support functions
Head of accounts payable/receivables and accountability
Performance indicators
Budget Variance Rate: Keeping actual department spending within $pm2%$ of the approved annual forecast.
Days Sales Outstanding (DSO): Efficiency and speed of collecting outstanding aeronautical and retail invoices from airlines and tenants.
EBITDA Margin: Tracking and optimizing the airport’s operational profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
Procurement Cost Savings: Measurable cost-reductions achieved through strategic vendor contract renegotiations.