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Design Office Controller (Finance)  (m/f)

Airbus · Marseille Area, FR
Clearance Level
BPSS
Salary Range
Competitive
Employment Type
FULL TIME
Work Style
onsite

// Role Summary

Airbus Helicopters is seeking a Design Office Controller (Finance) to join their team in Marignane, France, playing a key role in program performance and financial control within the helicopter manufacturing sector.

// Key Responsibilities

  • Manage programme Non Recurring Costs (Development costs).
  • Provide data for management decision-making and highlight discrepancies.
  • Ensure transparency on Risks & Opportunities and support business partners.
  • Monitor program performance using Earned Value Management.
  • Requires a minimum of 5 years of professional experience and financial skills.
  • Requires security clearance for the position.

// Role Specification

About the Role

Take off with Airbus Helicopters! We are looking for a Design Office Controller (Finance) (m/f) to join our Finance department based in Marignane, France. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of aeronautics and contribute to life-saving missions accomplished thanks to our helicopters.

The Marignane site, the 3rd largest industrial site in France, is undergoing a significant transformation to create a high-tech, inclusive, and environmentally friendly working environment. You will gain a unique professional experience at the heart of helicopter manufacturing.

Your Future Missions

As part of a co-located team, you will collaborate with the Design Office's operational staff and program controllers. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Managing programme Non Recurring Cost (Development costs).
  • Providing quantitative and qualitative data to support management-level discussions and decision-making.
  • Measuring performance against budgets/targets, highlighting discrepancies, and proposing mitigation actions.
  • Ensuring transparency on Risks & Opportunities.
  • Challenging and supporting business partners across all directorates for financial and operational performance improvement.
  • Steering contributors through convergence processes to set targets.
  • Ensuring data circularity (scope / capacity).
  • Supporting business partners in change decision-making.
  • Monitoring programs through Earned Value Management with business stakeholders.
  • Controlling inputs and outputs for Cost at Completion and building storylines with Business Partners.
  • Offering feedback and quotation improvements.

This job requires an awareness of potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity.

Your Profile

  • Minimum of 5 years of professional experience.
  • Strong financial skills.
  • Technical expertise in SAP, MS Office pack and/or GSuite pack.
  • Advanced level of English communication skills.
  • Essential qualities include leadership, adaptability, and a challenges-oriented mindset.
  • Basic knowledge of Audit and Accounting will be a plus.

Why Join Us?

Our Values: Six essential values form the core of our company, defined by employees for employees, reflecting our unique global family.

Inclusion and Diversity: We foster an inclusive and rewarding work environment where diversity is valued and respected. Our diverse workforce is the engine of innovation.

Compensation and Benefits: We offer a global, competitive, and transparent compensation package designed to reward your impact and performance. We invest in your well-being, including professional development, health coverage, retirement, and work-life balance support. Daily benefits include access to a dynamic CSE and transport facilities.

Our Recruitment Process

Our positions require a security clearance. The process includes an online application, analysis by the recruitment department, completion of a security questionnaire, HR and technical interviews, and a final job offer.

Ready to take off? Apply online now!