Essential Functions

1 Serves as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Dallas Airport System.
2 Manages multiple Senior Managers ensuring alignment with overall Airport System goals to enhance operational efficiency.
3 Delegates authority and responsibilities to subordinates, identifies areas for improvement, and implements changes to enhance operations; reviews and oversees work schedules at all subordinate levels, including other managers, to facilitate services across various Airport areas.
4 Produces financial forecast reports and reviews financial reports prepared by city departments to assess organizational and financial impact.
5 Directs the achievement of departmental goals in financial divisions, hiring, and procurement to ensure effective department management.
6 Manages all financial accounts for the aviation department, ensuring accurate tracking of expenses, revenue metrics, and other costs; performs reconciliations, research, and other financial administration tasks.
7 Establishes short, mid, and long-term goals and objectives; develops and approves schedules, priorities, and standards for achieving goals; oversees evaluation activities, hiring and personnel activities, payroll, and other time card-related issues; ensures effective and efficient financial regulations across all areas of finance and administration.
8 Analyzes and evaluates production goals, ensuring they are met timely and working to increase the efficiency of all airport services; prepares, evaluates, and administers the airport budget; oversees planning, development, and operation of special projects and operational directives.
9 Attends and participates in meetings and conferences with operators, airlines, concessionaires, various Department of Aviation division representatives, and contractors or consultants; coordinates and approves financial expenditures for large landside and terminal-related expenses ranging from $50,000 to $1,000,000.
10 Collaborates with the Deputy Director of Aviation to plan division work, exchange information, and ensure consistency with Department of Aviation policies.
11 Performs all other assigned duties.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

1 Knowledge of the financial processes for the City of Dallas at a high level including the budget, accounting, GASB, CAFR, and bond management and application processes.
2 Ability to work with managers on financial planning, reporting, and evaluating information for a cohesive financial picture.
3 Ability to execute federal, state, and City audits in a timely manner.
4 Comprehensive knowledge of local, state, and federal laws and regulations relevant to airport operations.
5 Knowledge of personnel principles and practices of airport financial management.
6 Knowledge of overall financial administration.
7 Ability to collaborate with managers, airlines, and stakeholders.
8 Ability to make effective decisions regarding financial management for a City department.
9 Ability to apply financial principles to large scale operations.
10 Ability to manage financial logistics of projects and overall department objectives.
11 Ability to write highly technical and non-technical reports.
12 Ability to lead, monitor, supervise, manage, and direct technical and administrative staff.
13 Knowledge of human relations, supervision, and management.
14 Ability to plan, assign, train, direct, and evaluate clerical/administrative, or professional employees.
15 Ability to manage unit/program activities.
16 Ability to establish and obtain operating goals and objectives for unit.
17 Skilled in project management.
18 Ability to negotiate and develop contractual agreements.
19 Ability to develop and administer budgets.
20 Communicating effectively verbally and in writing.
21 Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Business, Accounting Public Administration, Aviation Administration, Political Science, Public Relations or a related field

Experience

• Experience 7 years of experience in budgeting, accounting, financial analysis, revenue collections, and/or program administration (e.g. management system, communication, and/or administration) and three (3) years of experience with supervisory/management responsibilities.

Certifications and Licenses

• Valid Texas Class "C" Driver's License
• Preferred:  any AAAE, IATA or ACI airport certification

Equivalencies

•  High school diploma or GED plus eleven (11) years of the required experience including three (3) years of the stated supervisory/project management experience will meet the education and experience requirements.
• An associate degree in any field plus nine (9) years of the required experience including three (3) years of the stated supervisory/project management experience will meet the education and experience requirements.
• A bachelor's degree or higher in a non-specified field plus nine (9) years of the required experience including three (3) years of the stated supervisory/project management experience will meet the education and experience requirements.
•  A master's degree or higher in a specified field plus five (5) years of the required experience including three (3) years of the stated supervisory/project management experience will meet the education and experience requirements.

Other Requirements

• Must pass Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) background investigations.

About Dallas Love Field

The City of Dallas owns and operates Dallas Love Field, one of the finest general-purpose airports in the world. The airfield is located seven miles northwest of the downtown central business district and is managed by the City's Department of Aviation.Dallas Love Field provides the best that can be offered in a convenient, efficient airport, serving both commercial airline and corporate user needs. Located in the heart of Dallas, Herb Kelleher Way (formerly Cedar Springs Road) at Mockingbird, the airfield is 20 minutes from the Downtown Convention Center, West End, Infomart, and the Dallas Market Center.Love Field is self-supported through reasonable user fees and charges, with no cost to the taxpayer. Activities at Love Field generate funds that contribute to the local tax base. The airport serves another important function in the community as an essential employer and service provider to the businesses and citizens of Dallas.Love Field is fully equipped with all of the necessary aeronautical lighting, airport marking and air navigation radio aids to ensure its accessibility to aircraft even under highly adverse weather conditions. Its long parallel runways are enhanced with stat...e of the art visual approach lighting aids and four instrument landing systems. Love Field also has a crosswind runway. Other features include surveillance radar services, a windshear warning system and an FAA air traffic control tower that provides services 24 hours a day.Seven full service fixed base operators (FBOs) at Love Field provide general aviation users with a wide variety of services including fuel, maintenance, hangar rentals, and charters. FBOs at Love Field are well equipped to handle executive needs providing first class amenities such as meeting rooms, car rentals, limousine service and restaurants. Love Field is served by Southwest Airlines, Virgin America Airlines, Delta Airlines, and Alaska Airlines.Love Field serves as the front door to Dallas for seven million passengers a year providing a vital link in the economy of the City of Dallas, the region and the nation.

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