Transformation Financial Controller (f/m)
// Role Summary
Airbus Helicopters is seeking a Financial Controller to join their Digital and Transformation Controlling Department in Marignane, France. This role will play a key part in managing strategic projects and driving financial performance within a transforming aeronautics environment.
// Key Responsibilities
- Drive project performance through data consolidation, operating plans, and business case support.
- Coordinate financial exercises and reporting for a portfolio of over 200 strategic projects.
- Support board arbitration by creating analyses and optimizing project funding.
- Act as a Business Partner to ensure proper financing and process improvement.
- Ensure compliance and audit readiness for project cost rebalancing.
// Role Specification
Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Financial Controller (m/f) to join the Digital and Transformation Controlling Department based in Marignane, France. Join us to shape the future of aeronautics and help protect lives during missions accomplished thanks to our helicopters.
The Marignane site, the 3rd largest industrial site in France, near Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, is undergoing a deep transformation to offer a high-tech, inclusive, and environmentally friendly working environment. You will have a unique professional experience, at the heart of the manufacturing of our helicopters.
Your future missions:
- Participate in the operations of the new Compliance and Performance Plan (CPP) arbitration bodies created in 2025.
- Contribute to the activity of the Digital and Transformation Controlling department by arbitrating, prioritizing, and properly financing the main strategic projects (265m€ / +200 projects) that will shape the future of the Airbus Helicopters division.
- As the Financial Controller delegated to this new plan, your main missions will be:
- Drive project performance: Lead data collection and consolidation, deliver Operating Plans (OP) and Forecasts, and effectively support and challenge the business cases proposed by different domains.
- Coordinate financial exercises: Animate the domain controller network for Actuals, OP, and forecasts, while securing comprehensive reporting for the portfolio and ensuring a safe year-end landing.
- Support board arbitration: Create comprehensive analyses and KPIs to reveal project value, link different arbitration bodies, and optimize funding by proposing alternatives and synergies.
- Act as a Business Partner: Partner with board chairmen to ensure the proper financing of Opex/Capex arbitration and continuously improve existing processes.
- Ensure compliance and audit readiness: Prepare cost rebalancing between AH and AHD on projects and provide robust support for audit preparations.
Your profile:
- Min 8 years of professional experience.
- Financial skills.
- Technical expertise: SAP, MS Office pack and/or GSuite pack.
- Communication skills - English - advanced level.
- Leadership, adaptability, challenges oriented are essentials to succeed in this position.
3 Reasons to join us:
- Our Values: Six essential values form the core of our company. Defined for employees by employees, our Airbus values shape the DNA of our business, reflecting the unique mix of qualities found in each member of our global family.
- Inclusion and diversity: We foster an inclusive and rewarding work environment, where everyone's diversity is valued and respected. An inclusive and diverse workforce is the engine of innovation at Airbus. It makes us unique and contributes to better problem-solving.
- Compensation and benefits: At Airbus, we build the future together and your success is our priority. Expect a global, competitive, and transparent compensation package (including salaries, bonuses, profit-sharing, participation, and preferred share ownership plan), designed to reward the impact and performance you bring, both individually and collectively. We invest in your complete well-being: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement, and a commitment to a supported work-life balance (parental support, flexibility). And for your daily life, benefits that make a difference: A dynamic CSE (Social and Economic Committee) offering many advantages (company restaurant, children's leisure center, associations and sports complex, travel allowances, etc.). Transport facilities: Take advantage of our company shuttles or the reimbursement of your annual transport pass.
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