Engineering Financial Controller
// Role Summary
Join Airbus as a Financial Controller in a dynamic transnational team, supporting financial reporting, forecasting, and process optimization.
// Key Responsibilities
- Support annual and quarterly financial planning and forecasting.
- Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities.
- Manage data and deliver standardized reports on key financial metrics.
- Ensure data consistency and compliance across financial systems.
- Contribute to process simplification, harmonization, and automation.
- Leverage financial tools and basic project management knowledge.
// Role Specification
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in Financial Controlling within Airbus GBS. You will become a vital part of a transnational team of 14 individuals across France, Germany, UK, and Portugal, focusing on the financial controlling of Systems Engineering. This role offers a significant chance to share best practices and grow within a dynamic environment.
Your Mission
You will be the cornerstone of the team, empowering Finance Business Partners through the delivery of precise data, streamlined processes, and high-quality operational support. You will play a crucial part in ensuring our financial reporting is reliable, efficient, and forward-looking.
Key Areas of Focus:
- Forecasting & Planning Support: Assist in timely and accurate Cost Center Costs and Cost By Nature (CbN) planning for yearly and quarterly forecast exercises. This involves preparing working files, managing timelines with CbN Controllers, and performing data entry in the IBM Planning tool.
- Closing & Financial Reporting: Provide key support during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities. Assist in ensuring financial records are accurate by handling tasks such as cost reallocations, tracking open commitments, and monitoring team hours to ensure seamless reporting.
- Data Management & Reporting: Execute essential back-office tasks to deliver timely and standardized reporting on key metrics (e.g., 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: Actively contribute to simplifying, harmonizing, and automating recurring manual tasks to enhance the efficiency and speed of our financial operations.
- Tool & Process Utilization: Leverage financial systems, basic legal/HR workflows, and foundational project management knowledge to support daily operations.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- A degree in Business Management, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
- 2-3 years of prior experience in Financial Controlling or a similar area.
- Recommended experience with financial tools such as SAP, IFRP, SAC (Fiori), and Google Workplace (G-sheet, G-slides).
- The ability to deliver recurring financial summaries with complete data accuracy.
- A capacity to understand domain needs and expectations while maintaining consistency with higher-level guidance and financial targets.
- A talent for agile, reliable, and fast data management.
- An entrepreneurial mindset: deliverable-driven, capable of working with short deadlines.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to transition between the big picture and detailed views, interpreting complex facts and figures.
- Problem-solving capabilities and a proactive approach to proposing improvement solutions.
- The ability to consider performance and sustainability for short, mid, and long-term solutions.
- Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of French or German would be an advantage.
This role requires an awareness of potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, forming the foundation of the Company’s success, reputation, and sustainable growth.
Employment Details
Company: Airbus Portugal SA
Employment Type: Permanent
Experience Level: Professional
Job Family: Controlling