Manager, Aviation Business Planning and Due Diligence

About ICF Aviation

ICFs aviation practice is one of the world's largest specialist aviation consulting teams. Aviation is, by its nature, a global industry, and from our offices in the US, UK, India and Spain, we work together as a single global team to offer a truly global solution to our clients. A more complete description of ICF experience and capabilities can be seen by visiting our web site, https://www.icf.com/aviation

About our Transactions Advisory Team

From our offices around the globe, ICF helps aviation clients manage assets and operations, mitigate risk and maximise return on investment. We provide objective, independent commercial, financial, technical, and regulatory guidance across all aviation sectors globally, including airports, airlines, FBOs, cargo, and emerging markets such as SAF and electric aviation.

ICF has advised on almost every major global aviation transaction in the past 20 years—and continues to be a trusted, objective, impartial advisor in every engagement. We provide informed guidance to those investing in aviation assets or assessing collateral value for loans or rated bond offerings backed by aviation assets. Our support goes beyond core technical due diligence and forecasting to include environmental due diligence, emissions forecasting, climate risk screening and marketing strategies.

About the Role

We are looking for Managers to join our Transaction Advisory team to help execute technical due diligence projects (buy-side and sell-side) on aviation assets. In this role you’ll have responsibility for day-to-day management of consultancy projects, including acting as the point of contact for clients, helping develop solutions to problems using a variety of analytical techniques, ensuring appropriate project management procedures are in place and providing guidance to junior staff.

The ideal candidate for this role is an individual with 5+ years experience in building and reviewing business plan models & forecasts (activity, revenue, cost, EBITDA), ideally in an aviation context.

Key projects led by managers at this level include buy-side & sell-side due diligence on airport, and airport-related transactions, so experience in this area would be particularly valuable.

You will also be expected to contribute to business development efforts. While not the primary focus of your role, you will be building a network of client relationships, working on proposals, attending conferences, and contributing to ICF’s thought leadership.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Lead client projects by developing work scope and approach, managing analysts and associates, and ensuring timely delivery of solutions;
• Developing flexible & sophisticated excel-based business plan models to model revenues, costs and EBITDA; running multiple scenarios
• Overseeing, and contributing to, the development of client-ready reports documenting market analysis, assumptions and results
• Act as the day-to-day point of contact with Clients, and build long-term trusted relationships;
• Develop and enrich your own skills by working across several aspects of transaction advisory and the broader aviation team;
• Cultivate a high performing and inclusive team, mentoring and training junior staff;
• Build and maintain a culture of collaboration, both within Aviation and across ICF;
• Develop project budgets and manage risk throughout the project lifecycle.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, finance, economics, or other related fields
• 5+ years of work experience in financial modeling or transaction advisory in industry or consultancy environment;
• Demonstratable experience managing projects or initiatives, creating structured workflows;
• Strong analytical aptitude with advanced Excel skills;
• Ability and willingness to travel for work as necessary;
• Comfort operating within a flat organizational structure and agile working environment;
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written English communication skills;

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience;
• Applied financial modeling / transaction advisory experience in the aviation industry;
• Knowledge & experience of traffic forecasting approaches and techniques a plus

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