Program & Project Commercial/Controlling (m/f/d), Paris

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

Tasks

• The jobholder works closely with project managers and operational teams to support successful programme execution, performance reporting, and compliance with processes.
• The jobholder contributes to effective financial bid support and programme controlling performed by a local bids & programmes controller:

Programme Controlling:

• Pro-actively follow and challenge programmes order intake, revenues, cost and cash-flows. Monitor and support project reviews and the EAC process.
• Work-out and update budget and forecast figures of the programme and comment in the monthly reporting
• Review and analyse variance between plan, forecasts and actual (P&L and BS items)
• Financial bid support: manage financial part of the bid process, support bid calculations, pricing strategy, risks & opps analysis, support contract negotiations

Budgetary Controlling:

• Drive preparation of bottom-up yearly budget
• Review and analyse variance between budget and forecasts
• Analyse and drive opportunities for cost base efficiency (including SLA/service support cost)

R&D Business Partnering:

• Pro-actively follow and challenge R&D spending
• Project Controlling of R&T projects (bids, cost statements, audit)
• Finance support to R&D Tax Credit

Ad-hoc missions:

• Drive improvements to our business cases standards and actively drive a number of business cases in particular with Product Management (new product launches, new features, etc.) and Business Development department (notably around partnerships)
• Finance support to specific partnerships and M&A cases

Profile

• Contribute to finance controlling activities of Cyber Security in France in a challenging, agile and fast evolving business environment.
• Jobholder will need to work towards the financial target set in the budget/OP, which will entail strong growth in top line, margin and cash improvements.
• Jobholder will need to have develop understanding of all financial statements, including balance sheet and cash flows.
• The jobholder will have to perform in a business with various business models (project oriented, products oriented, services oriented).
• The jobholder will be working closely with the French finance team and will need to show flexibility in handling of the tasks provided to him/her.

Skills:

• Experience in Finance Controlling
• Good Knowledge of SAP would be beneficial
• Reliable handling of relevant calculation tools (MS Excel)
• Ideally Experience in business improvement and transformation projects.
• Basic contract expertise.
• Understand customer and competitive environment.
• Listening, communication and negotiation skills
• Problem solving skills and can-do, solution-oriented attitude
• Fluent in French and a good level of English