Join Airbus Defence and Space in Getafe, Spain, as a Financial Analyst / Cost Engineer on the Finance NextGen Programme. This permanent, full-time role offers a hybrid working model and involves two two-year international assignments combined with leadership training, financial controlling, and cost engineering.
Requirements
Master’s degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering or equivalent.
3-5 years of relevant professional experience.
Negotiation-level proficiency in Spanish and English.
Finance experience in areas like accounting, cost-accounting, or reporting is an advantage.
Knowledge of SAP SP1 and Microsoft Office/Google Suite proficiency.
Skills & Responsibilities
Financial analysis & consolidation: Consolidate data, prepare operational planning, forecasts, budgets, and monthly closing reporting for the operations and engineering team.
Cost engineering & target costing: Plan future target costs for products, development activities, and services while challenging supplier quotations for fair value.
Stakeholder collaboration & advice: Act as a focal point for internal finance customers in engineering, programmes, production, and procurement to provide cost calculations and risk assessments.
Process improvement & compliance: Support standardisation strategies, automatization of activities, and cross-divisional harmonisation of cost models while ensuring adherence to ethics and compliance regulations.
Potential transition routes: People from project management, industrial engineering, or traditional financial controlling roles may bring strong analytical and stakeholder management skills, alongside meeting the mandatory engineering background and bilingual language requirements.
Job description
Job Description:
The Finance NextGen Programme is an Airbus Defence & Space wide development programme. This programme is designed to identify and develop talented Leaders for the Airbus Finance Community who will contribute significantly towards achieving our business goals. The FinanceNextGen Programme - sponsored by Airbus Defence & Space CFO - enables its participants to enhance financial know-how and expertise, combined with further learning in management and leadership competencies.
The mission of the programme
- Fostering and deepening participants’ financial knowledge and expertise on the Airbus world of Finance, enlarging the scope to the international financial context.
- Linking formal learning with rotating, real-business project assignments.
- Increasing participants’ project management and leadership competencies.
- Encouraging networking, job shadowing, mobility and cross-cultural experiences.
- Mentorship from a member of the Finance Top Management.
This Program consists of two assignments in two different countries. Each assignment lasts for a period of two years. They are combined with off-the-job modules, designed to strengthen participant’s management and financial competencies.
The successful applicant will join the Air Power Performance Engineering F&C Team in Getafe. You will join the team as Financial Analyst / Cost Engineer. The scope of responsibility includes finance controlling, consolidation and costing activities related with New Programmes mainly. Costing activities include, among others, to plan future target costs for products, development activities, and services of Airbus as well as to challenge supplier quotations for their fair value.
As a Financial Analyst you will be a vital part in the Finance community to gather and consolidate the data to enable educated decision making on management level and give visibility about performance versus targets in an international environment.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Consolidating, supporting and preparing finance exercise as Operational Planning, EAC, Forecast, End of Year Estimation, Budget within the Operations & Engineering F&C team in Getafe.
Implement the standardization strategy for monthly closing reporting at TFAO Perimeter level, automatization of activities, co-pilot the finance strategy with the operational improving communication and better finance understanding.
Focal point for Internal Finance Customer demand, as general queries, deep analysis on specific matter, new way of working implementation, task request by the business.
Compiling relevant information and providing advice to clarify needs (e.g. assumptions, specifications, premises) for specific cost calculations in cooperation with the internal customer (e.g. Engineering, Programmes, VSM, Production, Procurement) and based on prior experience.
Technical responsibility for a defined range of tasks.
Decision on the costing methodology and the references to be assumed.
Assessment of risks and opportunities in costing; identification of cost drivers (e.g. processes, design premises); providing recommendations regarding the optimisation of the analysed cost basis; including full documentation of the costing result and presentation of the results to the customer.
Knowledge management: maintaining and sharing expertise and current knowledge of the processes, methods, and industrial set-up of the internal customers (e.g. Programmes, Procurement, Production), the suppliers.
Supporting and actively contributing to improvement measures (e.g. processes, tools), also with regard to sustainability.
Internal and cross-divisional harmonisation of cost models, methods, and tools. Continuous development of cost models and data analyses that can be used by other costing actors.
Accomplishment of all business activities in compliance with all relevant internal and external regulations/legislation; escalation of occurring Ethics & Compliance issues.
Supporting supplier negotiations, contributing to the supplier strategy and internal strategic go/no-go decisions.
Cost by destination oriented, providing management with transparent information vital to the decision-making process, advancing recovery measures in case of potential deviations in a changing and volatile environment (development programs with a multi-companies and multi-countries set-up).
SKILLS
We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:
Master’s degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering or equivalent.
3-5 years of relevant professional experience.
Finance experience in the areas of Finance / Accounting / Cost-Accounting / Project-Controlling / Reporting would be an advantage.
Knowledge of SAP SP1 and ability to learn and adapt on new systems.
Proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, Power Point) and Google Suite.
Ability to deal with various stakeholders and all levels of management.
Critical thinking & ability to constructively challenge the operational business.
Able to work in a multi-functional team with an international mindset, self-confident, reactive, with good communication skills.
Proactive and independent working style.
Strong analytical skills and problem-solving approach.
Languages: Spanish and English to negotiation level. Any other spoken/written language would be a plus.
WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE AS AIRBUS EMPLOYEE?
At Airbus we are focused on our employees and their welfare. Take a look at some of our social benefits:
Vacation days plus additional days-off along the year.
Attractive salary.
Hybrid model of working when possible.
Collective transport service subject to working calendar/home location.
Benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, employee stock options, retirement plan, or study grants.
On-site facilities (among others): free canteen, kindergarten, medical office.
Possibility to collaborate in different social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects in a multicultural environment.
Option to access special rates in products & benefits.
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.
Company: Airbus Defence and Space SAU
Employment Type: Permanent -------
Experience Level: Entry Level
Job Family: Costing
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