Project and Service Controller SBW3 & other projects (d/m/w)

Role Overview

Airbus Defence and Space in Taufkirchen bei München is looking for a Project and Service Controller (d/m/w) to join the Secure Communications Project Controlling team. You will act as a Project and Service Controller (d/m/w) for SBW3 and other contracts, contributing to the construction of the satellite and its ground segment.

Your Responsibilities

• Co-Piloting Financial Performance:
  • Understand the operational business environment, including strategy, governance, challenges, and constraints.
  • Lead financial planning, create accurate forecasts, and advise on the company's overall financial situation, critically examining business requests.
  • Define and maintain multi-year financial objectives.
  • Develop and execute financial models, simulations, scenarios, and business cases to support decision-making and provide comprehensive insights into the financial impact of business decisions.
  • Anticipate financial risks and opportunities and advise on mitigation strategies.
  • Identify and secure external financing opportunities.
  • Generate precise financial reporting with appropriate detail.
  • Evaluate actual financial performance, analyze deviations, and recommend corrective actions.
  • Analyze cost bases, revenues, unit costs, R&D, etc.
  • Identify actionable levers for optimization and competitive initiatives and monitor savings realization.
  • Calculate hourly rates, support resource planning, define headcount targets, and create models for chargebacks and cost allocations.
  • Approve purchase requisitions, review orders below approval thresholds (sampling), and verify commitments and provisions.
  • Initiate cost rebookings and cost transfers as needed.
  • Provide relevant information to Investor Relations to support the Airbus Equity Story.
• Ensure Compliance and Enforce Financial Processes:
  • Define appropriate financing and cost allocation models in collaboration with Tax, Treasury, and Accounting departments, initiating necessary actions (e.g., capital injections, transfer pricing).
  • Review statutory annual financial statements of subsidiaries within your area of responsibility.
  • Define a suitable cost accounting structure (cost centers, project codes, etc.) that meets business and financial requirements.
  • Ensure financial processes are defined, documented, and understood, especially for public contracts, tax credits, IAS38, chargebacks, and management fees.
  • Support business units in navigating and adhering to financial processes.
  • Ensure strict adherence to Finance compliance requirements by the business.
  • Interact with auditors as needed.
• Sharpen Financial Awareness within the Company:
  • Define and provide a "Finance Toolbox" (e.g., business case templates).
  • Define and provide reference data (targets, actuals, pro-forma figures, finance roadmap, etc.).
  • Explain and sensitize the business to financial topics (key terms, company KPIs, technical aspects like taxes or capitalization).

Your Profile

• Master's degree in Business Administration with a focus on Finance, a completed commercial apprenticeship with professional experience, or a comparable qualification.
• Extensive experience in Finance and (Project) Controlling.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach with other departments.
• Experience with public contracting is advantageous.
• Proficiency in SAP (CO/FI).
• Experience working in a matrix environment.
• Ability to anticipate, assess, and mitigate risks.
• Highly analytical and comfortable with numbers.
• Fluent in German and advanced English language skills.

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