Your fleet has grown. Your treasury hasn't.
Fuel, leases, engines and parts are priced in dollars. Your revenue often isn't. DNP Swiss builds the treasury and risk foundations that growing aviation businesses need, without the Big 4 overhead.
At CHF 100–500M revenue, most aviation businesses have no treasury function. The CFO and one finance manager handle everything. Fuel is bought at the price of the day. Dollars are converted at whatever rate the bank quotes. Summer cash sits in accounts nobody plans. There is no hedging policy and no view of cash across entities. It worked with three aircraft. With fifteen aircraft and three currencies, it costs real money every quarter.
Two foundations, built for aviation
Treasury Foundations
- 13-week cash forecastA rolling forecast that shows the winter trough before you are in it.
- Seasonal liquidity planningSize the buffer the business needs between peak and off-peak.
- Cash pooling and idle cashConcentrate balances across entities and put surplus cash to work.
- Bank and acquirer structureBenchmark bank pricing, card holdbacks and collateral. Put your banks in competition.
- Fleet and intercompany fundingAircraft financing, lease payments and internal loans structured around the cash plan.
Risk Foundations
- Exposure mappingFuel, dollar, euro and rate exposure mapped across the whole cost base.
- A first hedging frameworkA simple, defensible policy for fuel, FX and rates: what to hedge, when and how much.
- Bank pricing disciplineFX spreads, swap rates and credit terms that reflect your volume.
- Counterparty diversificationHedges and deposits spread across banks, with a limit for each.
- Board-ready risk reportingOne page that answers the board: how much risk do we carry, and is it managed?
Where treasury quietly costs an operator
The diagnostic checks six areas. In each one, money leaves the business without anyone deciding it should.
Cash & Liquidity
Seasonal peaks, card holdbacks and maintenance events that never reach the forecast.
See the risks →FULFuel & Commodities
Your largest variable cost, bought at the price of the day.
See the risks →FXCurrency Risk
Dollar costs against franc and euro revenue, converted one payment at a time.
See the risks →FINFleet Financing & Rates
Floating leases, reserves and return conditions that move without warning.
See the risks →BNKBanking & Payments
Spreads, acquirer terms and payment fraud risk nobody benchmarks.
See the risks →GOVGovernance & Reporting
No policy, no limits and no single answer when the board asks.
See the risks →Diagnose. Build. Hand over.
Find the leaks
We assess what you have, what is missing and what it costs you. A first diagnostic takes 4–8 weeks.
Set the foundations
We set up the treasury and risk basics your fleet and your finance team need at this stage.
Hand it over
We hand over processes, policies and tools that work without us.
Value protected and cash generated from FX de-risking
Idle cash mobilised across entities to maximise returns
Cash forecasting implemented across Asia and Latin America
Treasury integration in multinational operations
Senior expertise, sized for you
Fraction of Big 4 cost
Senior expertise without the consulting-firm overhead. You pay for the work, not the brand.
No headcount risk
No salaries, no benefits, no turnover. Expertise on demand.
Built for your size
Frameworks scaled to one finance team, not copied from a flag carrier's treasury department.
You keep the upside
Every point saved on fuel, FX spreads and bank pricing stays in your P&L.
From flight school to airline
- Airlines
- Cargo operators
- Business aviation & charter
- Aircraft management & FBO
- MRO providers
- Airports
- Air rescue
- Flight schools
- Aerospace components
Beyond aviation, we build the same foundations for internationally exposed companies in watchmaking, food & beverage, medtech, trading, manufacturing and luxury.
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