Engineering Financial Controller

Job Description:

A new opportunity in Financial Controlling has opened in Airbus GBS.

You will join a transnational team of 14 people present in France, Germany, UK and Portugal, responsible for the financial controlling of Systems Engineering. This position which will give you a great opportunity to share practices and grow in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities - your mission

You will be the backbone of the team, empowering the Finance Business Partners by delivering accurate data, streamlined processes, and high-quality operational support.

You will play a key role in ensuring the financial reporting is reliable, efficient, and forward-looking.

Your day-to-day will focus on these key areas:

• Forecasting & Planning Support: Support timely and accurate Cost Center Costs and Cost By Nature (CbN) planning for yearly and quarterly forecast exercises. This includes preparing working files, driving timelines with CbN Controllers, and performing data entry in the IBM Planning tool.

• Closing & Financial Reporting: You will act as a key support during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities. You will assist in ensuring our financial records are accurate by handling tasks like cost reallocations, tracking open commitments, and monitoring team hours, ensuring our reporting is seamless.

• Data Management & Reporting: Execute essential back-office tasks, to deliver timely and standardized reporting on key metrics (such as NRC, RC, Efficiency, and Travel expenses) to the department’s team.

• Compliance & Master Data: Maintain data consistency and compliance across financial reporting tools and processes (e.g., Master Data maintenance, headcount status updates, and Purchase Order compliance checks).

• Process Optimization: You will actively contribute to simplifying, harmonizing, and automating recurring manual tasks to make our financial operations leaner and faster.

• Tool & Process Utilization: Leverage financial systems, basic legal/HR workflows, and foundational project management knowledge to support daily operations

Requirements - our ideal candidate will have

• Degree in Business Management, Finance, Economics or other related areas

• 2-3 years of previous experience in Financial Controlling or related areas;

• Highly recommended to have experience with Financial Tools such as SAP, IFRP, SAC (Fiori), Google Workplace (G-sheet, G-slides…)

• A capacity to deliver recurring financial pictures with full accuracy on the data.

• A capacity to understand the needs/expectations of a domain while keeping the consistency with above level guidance and financial targets

• Talent for agile, reliable and fast data management

• Entrepreneurial mindset:

• Deliverable-driven, able to work with short deadlines

• Good analytical skills with an ability to switch from big picture to detailed view, and to give meaning to complex facts and figures

• Problem-solver

• Proactive in proposing improvement solutions

• Able to look at performance/sustainability on short/mid/long-term solutions

• English is a must, knowledge of French / German would be a plus

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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Tipo de contrato: Full time