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Swissport

Global airport ground handling and cargo

Finance Business Partner - Cargo

Corporate Finance & FP&AUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeRaleigh, NC, USA$120k - $135k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university finance degree or equivalent is required.
  • At least 3–5 years of experience in a similar role is required.
  • In-depth knowledge of financial principles, concepts, financial statements, and reporting is required.
  • Knowledge of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is required.
  • Extensive Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and experience providing analytical reports to internal stakeholders are required.
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, including the ability to self-check work, are required.
  • The ability to work under demanding deadlines and take accountability for completeness and timely delivery is required.
  • The ability to develop robust internal and external networks to deliver services seamlessly is required.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare commercial proformas for new business, renewals, expansions, and strategic opportunities.
  • Build financial models incorporating revenue, volumes, pricing, labor, productivity, capital expenditures, facilities, equipment, and operating costs.
  • Validate operational and commercial assumptions and identify gross margin, contribution margin, EBITDA, investment requirements, return on investment, and payback.
  • Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to support leadership decisions.
  • Establish approved proformas as financial baselines and track actual performance against them.
  • Manage the capital expenditure/request for approval process from initial business case through approval, execution, and close-out.
  • Develop investment cases covering financial requirements, expected benefits, return on investment, payback, and EBITDA impact.
  • Distinguish between budgeted and incremental investment requiring approval.
  • Prepare and coordinate Red Flag and Investment Committee submissions, presenting risks, sensitivities, returns, and recommendations.
  • Conduct post-investment reviews to confirm delivery of approved benefits.
  • Lead customer and contract profitability analysis across the Cargo portfolio.
  • Review revenue, volumes, pricing, labor, productivity, facilities, equipment, transportation, and other direct and indirect costs.
  • Calculate and present gross margin, contribution margin, and EBITDA by customer and contract.
  • Identify margin leakage, underperforming contracts, cost pressures, and commercial opportunities.
  • Support contract renewals and customer negotiations by analyzing actual costs against contracted rates.
  • Quantify the impacts of wage increases, inflation, facility costs, scope changes, productivity, and volume changes.
  • Partner with Commercial and Operations to validate assumptions used in customer proposals and contract pricing.
  • Model the impact of changes in rates, fees, volumes, labor, productivity, and customer requirements.
  • Establish minimum pricing and margin thresholds needed to meet financial targets.
  • Identify opportunities for incremental revenue to cover additional labor, equipment, space, and operating costs.
  • Highlight commercial proposals that create unacceptable financial exposure.
  • Analyze labor costs by station, department, cost center, position, and role.
  • Analyze headcount, vacancies, pay rates, overtime, benefits, fringes, and productivity.
  • Build business cases for wage increases, organizational changes, and additional staffing.
  • Identify and quantify wage compression and pay differentials.
  • Validate the financial impact of workforce decisions and identify incremental EBITDA impact.
  • Support acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and market-entry opportunities.
  • Provide market analysis, competitive intelligence, commercial assessment, and valuation support.
  • Assess target businesses, customers, contracts, profitability, infrastructure, growth potential, and investment requirements.
  • Develop financial scenarios and sensitivities and provide recommendations to Cargo Leadership.
  • Support the annual Cargo budget and ongoing forecasting processes.
  • Develop and validate revenue, labor, cost, productivity, capital expenditure, and margin assumptions.
  • Provide proactive P&L variance analysis by station, customer, department, and cost center.
  • Identify operational and commercial drivers behind financial variances.
  • Highlight emerging financial risks, opportunities, and expected year-end impacts.
  • Partner with Station GMs and Regional Leadership to develop corrective actions.
  • Own relevant monthly FLASH reporting and commercial commentary.
  • Analyze revenue, volumes, labor, overtime, costs, productivity, margin, and EBITDA performance.
  • Highlight variances against budget, forecast, prior year, and approved business cases.
  • Provide forward-looking commentary on risks, opportunities, and required management actions.
  • Track approved business cases and contracts against actual financial and operational performance.
  • Conduct post-implementation reviews to determine whether expected revenue, cost savings, productivity, and EBITDA benefits have been achieved.
  • Identify differences between approved assumptions and actual results.
  • Recommend corrective pricing, productivity, cost, or operational actions when financial performance is below expectations.

Desired Qualifications

  • Certified Accountant and Controller certification or Certified Public Accountant qualification is an advantage.
  • Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and consolidation is an advantage.

About the Company

Swissport

Global airport ground handling and cargo

Swissport is the world’s largest provider of airport ground services and a major player in air cargo handling. It delivers the behind-the-scenes work that keeps flights moving, including baggage handling, de-icing, passenger services support, ramp operations, aircraft servicing, and cargo logistics, at hundreds of airports across 44 countries. Its products and services work by offering an integrated suite of ground handling solutions that airport operators and airlines outsource to ensure timely, safe, and efficient turnaround of aircraft and cargo. Swissport differentiates itself through scale, an extensive global network, and a history of mergers and acquisitions that have built a broad, standardized service offering and deep operational expertise across markets. The company’s goal is to be the leading, globally connected provider of ground handling and cargo services, helping airlines run smooth operations and minimize turnaround times even under challenging conditions.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Acquired
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Zurich, Switzerland
Founded
1997

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