Senior Airport Business Finance Manager

Massachusetts Port Authority

$100K — $130K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred.
  • 7-10 years of experience in economic/business analysis or financial policy development; aviation, transportation, or real estate experience is a plus.
  • Advanced analytical capabilities and strong business acumen.
  • Ability to present clear, data-driven recommendations to diverse audiences.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills with business tool proficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic financial leadership with data-driven recommendations on commercial opportunities and investments.
  • Lead the development of financial plans, budgets, and performance metrics for a diverse airport business portfolio.
  • Leverage financial and market intelligence to identify trends, assess risks, and enhance commercial performance.
  • Build trusted partnerships with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring financial governance and compliance.
  • Mentor staff and foster a collaborative, customer-focused environment.

Benefits

  • Work/life balance
  • A supportive and inclusive culture
  • Opportunities for growth
  • Safe, healthy, and secure work environment
  • Support for the people and businesses of New England
  • Achieve positive impact in the community
  • Environmental stewardship
Full Job Description
ABOUT YOU

As a Senior Airport Business Finance Manager, You are a strategic, analytical, and collaborative financial leader who excels at translating complex data into actionable business insights. You bring sound judgment, commercial acumen, and a long-term perspective to decision-making, while building trusted relationships across the organization and influencing stakeholders through clear communication, credibility, and expertise. Comfortable navigating complexity and competing priorities, you are detail-oriented, adaptable, and driven to strengthen financial performance, enhance operational effectiveness, and support the organization's continued growth and success through thoughtful stewardship and strategic partnership.

What you will do:
  • Provide strategic financial leadership by evaluating complex commercial opportunities, capital investments, lease structures, and business initiatives, delivering data-driven recommendations that support long-term growth, financial sustainability, and organizational objectives.
  • Lead the development and oversight of financial plans, budgets, forecasts, pricing strategies, and performance metrics, ensuring sound fiscal stewardship, accountability, and informed decision-making across a diverse airport business portfolio.
  • Leverage financial, operational, and market intelligence to identify emerging trends, assess risks, uncover revenue opportunities, and enhance commercial performance through thoughtful analysis, business insight, and continuous improvement.
  • Build trusted partnerships with senior leadership, tenants, and cross-functional stakeholders while providing financial governance, ensuring compliance, strengthening internal controls, and mentoring staff to foster a high-performing, collaborative, and customer-focused environment.

What you offer:
  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration or equivalent experience, with an advanced degree preferred to support complex financial analysis and strategy.
  • 7-10 years of experience in economic/business analysis or business/financial policy development required, with exposure to aviation, transportation, or real estate environments considered an asset.
  • Demonstrates advanced analytical capability, strong business acumen, and the ability to develop and present clear, data-driven recommendations to diverse audiences.
  • Exhibits strong leadership, communication, and project management skills, with proficiency in business tools and the ability to guide staff, manage complex initiatives, and produce well-structured written materials.

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WHAT WE OFFER

Collaboration with colleagues at all levels of leadership from all different disciplines, from Aviation to Maritime and beyond. Every day is different at Massport and the breadth of our impact on the Massachusetts region through our facilities provides many opportunities for our employees to grow, learn, and explore the many areas of our business. Our business is all about connecting. We support and take pride in the employees that make those connections possible each and every day.
  • Work/life balance
  • A supportive and inclusive culture
  • Opportunities for growth
  • Providing safe, healthy, and secure work environment
  • Supporting the people and businesses of New England
  • Achieving results and having positive impact
  • Being good neighbors in the communities we serve
  • Protecting the environment

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