XTREME AVIATION, LLC
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Senior Financial Analyst – Cost & Operational Finance
Financial Analysis • Job Costing • Operational Finance • Aviation MRO
WORK LOCATION
Multi-Location Aviation MRO Operations
SALARY
$75,000–$100,000 Annually, Depending on Experience & Qualifications
JOB TYPE
Full-Time | Individual Contributor
ABOUT THE ROLE
Xtreme Aviation LLC is seeking a hands-on, analytical, and highly motivated Senior Financial Analyst to support financial analysis, cost management, and operational decision-making across our multi-location aviation MRO environment.
This position will play a key role in developing and improving the company's job-level profitability and cost analysis, giving management greater visibility into labor, materials, outside services, overhead, margins, and overall operational performance.
The ideal candidate is someone who can do more than maintain existing financial reports. We are looking for an analytical builder who can identify gaps, develop practical solutions, implement new financial processes, and work closely with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Purchasing, and ERP/system resources.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
Job Costing & Profitability
- Develop and maintain job-level profitability reporting across the organization.
- Analyze labor, material, outside services, overhead, and margins at the job level.
- Evaluate actual job costs against estimates, quotes, and budgets.
- Identify and analyze significant cost and profitability variances.
- Develop methodologies for labor costing, burden rates, and overhead allocation.
- Partner with Operations to identify the causes of unfavorable labor, material, and margin variances.
Financial Analysis & Operational Finance
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling.
- Analyze financial and operational information to support management decision-making.
- Identify trends, cost drivers, and opportunities for improved financial performance.
- Prepare financial analysis and recommendations for senior management.
- Translate financial information into practical insights for operational leaders.
- ️ Process Improvement & Implementation
- Take financial improvement initiatives from concept through implementation.
- Develop requirements, methodologies, testing plans, documentation, and monitoring processes.
- Identify gaps in ERP data, financial processes, and controls.
- Recommend practical solutions to improve financial and operational reporting.
- Work with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Purchasing, and ERP/system resources to improve the quality and usefulness of company information.
WHAT YOU NEED
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field — REQUIRED.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in financial analysis, cost accounting, or operational finance.
- Strong experience with financial analysis and cost management.
- Experience with job costing, product costing, or project/operational profitability processes.
- Strong understanding of labor costs, material costs, overhead, cost drivers, and profitability.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze actual costs versus estimates, quotes, and budgets.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement new financial processes, rather than simply maintaining existing processes.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong financial modeling skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to present financial findings and recommendations to senior management.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects and solutions.
INDUSTRY & EXPERIENCE
Candidates should have experience in an environment involving cost accounting, job costing, manufacturing, MRO, aerospace, or industrial operations.
Experience in the following areas is especially valuable:
- Job costing
- Cost accounting
- Operational finance
- Product costing
- Project profitability
- Labor costing
- Burden rate development
- Overhead allocation
- Variance analysis
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Financial modeling
- ERP data and financial processes
Prior aviation experience is beneficial but not required. Candidates with strong cost-accounting and implementation experience from manufacturing, aerospace, industrial services, or other job-cost environments are encouraged to apply.
WHAT MAKES YOU STAND OUT
We are especially interested in candidates with:
- 5+ years of financial analysis, cost accounting, or operational finance experience.
- Direct experience developing or improving job-costing or profitability processes.
- Experience developing labor costing, burden rates, or overhead allocation methodologies.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities.
- Experience with Power BI or SQL.
- Experience identifying and improving ERP data, processes, and controls.
- Experience taking a financial project from concept through implementation.
- Experience working directly with Operations and senior leadership.
- Strong ability to explain complex financial information in a clear and practical way.
- A self-starter mindset with the ability to work in an environment where processes are still being developed.
WHO WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE?
The successful candidate will be an analytical builder who is comfortable taking ownership of problems and developing solutions.
You should be comfortable:
- Working independently.
- Identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
- Building financial processes from the ground up.
- Working with developing or incomplete processes.
- Collaborating with Finance, Accounting, Operations, and Purchasing.
- Presenting findings to senior management.
- Turning financial data into actionable business recommendations.
This is an individual contributor position with significant exposure to senior management and operational leadership.
WHY JOIN XTREME AVIATION?
At Xtreme Aviation, you will have the opportunity to make a direct impact on financial visibility, cost management, and operational decision-making across a growing aviation MRO environment.
You will work closely with multiple departments and have the opportunity to develop financial processes, improve reporting, and provide management with information that supports better business decisions.
APPLY TODAY!
If you have strong experience in financial analysis, cost accounting, job costing, and operational finance and are ready to take ownership of financial improvement initiatives, we want to hear from you!
Send your resume to Recruitment@xtreme.aero or apply directly through Indeed.
Xtreme Aviation LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
