Senior Manager, Aerospace Defense & Government Advisory

About the role

Join Aprio's Aerospace, Defense, and Government Advisory team and help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio is a progressive, fast-growing firm seeking a Senior Manager to support high-impact strategy and M&A projects focused on evaluating growth and investment opportunities across the U.S. government and commercial aerospace sectors.

Responsibilities

• Support client engagements from proposal writing through planning and delivery
• Lead high-impact strategy and M&A projects focused on evaluating growth and investment opportunities across the U.S. government and commercial aerospace sectors
• Support data collection, research, and analysis of:
  • Macro economic, policy, financial, industry, and technology trends
  • Market dynamics, size, and growth trends
  • Company financials
  • Customer requirements, positioning, and trends
  • Technology, product, and service portfolios
  • Competitive dynamics
• Lead evaluations of organic and inorganic growth opportunities in the U.S. government and aerospace markets
• Provide synthesis and insights from team workstreams into coherent client-ready messaging and delivery
• Manage project economics, lead team, coordinate with client, and manage logistics
• Support business development through development of research and first-draft proposals for new client work
• Make process and quality improvement recommendations
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate workstream execution and extend insights into client opportunities, with ability to fact check and provide AI quality assurance
• Build clean Excel models and worksheets and help with financial and market models under guidance
• Review junior level staff work for quality and consistency
• Edit and revise team slides and support presentations for senior industry leaders and investment professionals

Qualifications

• 6+ years of total experience working in relevant fields, with at least 2+ years in a management consulting firm, investment bank, or corporate strategy, M&A, or business development/capture role in the defense, aerospace, and national security sectors
• Masters degree; MBA preferred
• Demonstrated ability to build market models and conduct financial projections in Excel
• Demonstrated interest in aerospace, defense, and U.S. government markets (familiarity with budgets or commercial aerospace trends is a plus)
• Experience in and ability to leverage and further develop AI tools preferred
• Ability to analyze and forecast U.S. government budgets and/or commercial aerospace spending
• Ability to develop clear, concise, and persuasive PowerPoint briefs used for strategic decision-making
• Excellent presentation skills and client-facing disposition
• Experience managing projects and leading teams in the execution of short-turnaround deliverables
• Experience developing team members preferred
• Strong communication skills and executive presence to brief client-ready material directly to clients and ability to iterate on client commentary and feedback

Pay

$165,000 - $225,000 a year. The salary range for this opportunity is stated above. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
• 401k with Profit Sharing
• 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
• Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
• Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group, and individual performance
• Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
• Top-rated wellness program
• Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options