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Airbus • Coimbra, Portugal

Financial Controller

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

Job Description:

Responsibilities - your mission (see guidance questions below)

Project Financial controlling

  • Propose and drive financial targets through the definition of roadmaps ( yearly forecast / multi-year budget planning / quarterly forecast exercises), synthesized stakeholders needs and challenge them
  • Establish consolidated financial reporting & analyzing quantitative and qualitative data (define, harmonize and ensure consistency and compliance, including tools), highlighting discrepancies and risks & opportunities
  • Perform monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing activities to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting
  • Maintain consistency and compliance across financial reporting tools and processes
  • Support with controlling financial performance - Project
  • Approve and audit of Purchase Orders
  • Trigger cost transfers and rebooking of mis booked costs
  • Attendance and support at cost reviews

Program Financial controlling

  • Preparation and update of the master data / data structure (CBS, WBS, Cost Centers ...) in the various tools for the Financial Planning and Forecasting
  • Establish consolidated financial reporting & analyzing quantitative and qualitative data (define, harmonize and ensure consistency and compliance, including tools), highlighting discrepancies and risks & opportunities
  • Perform monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing activities to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting
  • Maintain consistency and compliance across financial reporting tools and processes
  • EAC (Estimate at Completion) process support (e.g. EAC conclusion implementation in the tools - CDP Pool into SAP, reforecasting of costs to complete & checking EAC consistency at project & work package level)
  • Inventory Controlling
  • Creation of new projects & monitoring of existing one in management tools
  • Supporting supplier invoice approvals

Requirements - our ideal candidate will have

  • Business Management education in Finance or other related areas
  • 3-5 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...), Microsoft Office (Excel, Word,...)
  • Accounting Principles (GAAP/IFRS):understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
  • 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 to the business
    • Able to look at performance/sustainability on short/mid/long-term solutions
  • Communication skills are key, creating trustful relationships quickly in a remote work context and maintaining a broad network within the Finance
  • English is a must, knowledge of French / German / Spanish 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.

Company:
Airbus Portugal SA

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Controlling

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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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