// Role Summary
Leonardo is seeking a Program Controller in Rome to ensure financial and economic accuracy for defence projects. This role involves supporting program teams, analysing performance, and ensuring strategic alignment.
// Key Responsibilities
- Ensure financial integrity of defence programs.
- Analyse technical-industrial performance and financial trends.
- Support program teams in business decision-making.
- Manage budget control, cost estimation, and revenue profiles.
- Collaborate with AFC structures for financial accounting.
- Requires 3-5 years of controlling experience and advanced Excel/SAP skills.
// Role Specification
About Leonardo
Leonardo is an international industrial group that creates multi-domain technological capabilities for global security. A key player in major strategic programs in Aerospace, Defence, and Security, Leonardo employs over 62,000 people worldwide. The company has a significant industrial presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland, and the United States, operating in 150 countries through subsidiaries, joint ventures, and holdings. Leonardo is a technological and industrial partner to governments, defence administrations, institutions, and businesses.
Within the AFC (Administration, Finance, and Control) department of the Electronics for Defence Division, we are looking for a **Program Controller** for our **Rome Tiburtina** location.
Role Overview
The Program Controller is responsible for ensuring the integrity and correctness of economic and financial results, both actual and forecasted. This is achieved through integrated analysis of technical-industrial performance and economic-financial trends, supporting the program team/IPT (Integrated Project Team) in evaluating the impacts of business and operational choices, and ensuring decisions align with divisional strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Participation and support from the Offer and Contract Acquisition phase to ensure company economic-financial objectives are met, maximizing return on invested capital.
- Control of the economic and financial performance of assigned programs in relation to their planning, with particular attention to activity progress, verifying and approving the estimate of costs to completion, and revenue, invoicing, and cash flow profiles.
- Monthly detection and analysis of variances between actuals and planned figures for assigned programs, supporting the manager and all IPT members in estimating and defining corrective actions.
- Act as a point of reference for project economic-financial planning/control tools and processes.
- Ensure cooperation with other Structures within the AFC family for the definition, control, and correctness of financial accounting.
Qualifications
Education:
Master's degree in one of the following fields: Economics and Commerce/Business Economics/Management Engineering/Management.
Experience:
3-5 years of experience in controlling and/or at least three years of experience in other staff or business functions (Administration, Finance, Program Management).
Technical Skills:
- Competencies in controlling.
- Knowledge of administration, finance, and control principles.
- Knowledge of the offer process.
IT Skills:
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office (particularly Excel/PowerPoint).
- Knowledge of SAP.
Behavioural Skills:
- Ability to work in a team.
- Ability to perform your role autonomously.
- Proactivity and respect for deadlines.
- Results orientation.
Additional Information
- Availability for business travel.
Our Culture: Involvement, valuing skills, and care for people's well-being and safety are the cornerstones of our corporate culture. We are committed every day to fostering an inclusive and stimulating work environment, actively promoting the principles of inclusion, equity, and valuing diversity.
What We Offer:
- Reference collective bargaining agreement: CCNL for Private Mechanical Industry and Plant Installation.
- Work Modality: Hybrid.
- Contract Category: Employee.
- Contract Type: Permanent.
- Gross Annual Salary (RAL)/Salary Range: 35K-53K.
- Thirteenth monthly salary.
- Bonuses linked to Business Results.
- Welfare Vouchers worth 250 euros annually.
- Opportunities for continuous training and updating of professional skills and soft skills.
- Well-being: We prioritize the economic, physical, social, and psychological well-being of our people, offering multiple solutions tailored to their needs.
The company reserves the right to make evaluations regarding the level of employment and the economic proposal, based on objective criteria identified during the selection process and in line with the seniority of the candidate and the position, in compliance with the principles of equity, transparency, and equal opportunities provided by current legislation.
We await your application: send us your CV within three weeks of the job posting.
Selection Process:
Following the collection of applications, CVs most aligned with the required criteria are evaluated and identified. Selected candidates undergo an initial interview with the Human Resources team, covering motivation and aptitude, followed by an in-depth technical interview with the Business. At the end of the process, feedback is provided to the candidate, whether positive or negative.