Senior FP&A & Finance Operations Consultant — Contract

### 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 Intacct 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

### About Silver Air Private Jets

Company Culture

Silver Air Private Jets is driven to be the best in our industry – to change our industry by creating an environment where our team members can be their absolute best individually and collectively. We've built a culture based on core values like Drive, Own It, Respect, and Discipline. Silver Air fosters an environment of safety-first flight operations and service-first client relations. We believe our people are our greatest asset, and we encourage contribution and collaboration.