Materiel Services Controller

An opportunity for a Materiel Services Controller has arisen within Airbus Defence and Space, Getafe (Madrid).

**Plan & challenge***:

- Understand the business operational environment (strategy, governance, challenges, constraints).**
- **Lead the preparation of the financial planning, prepare accurate forecasts, provide guidance in line with the overall company financial situation, and challenge business requests.**:

- **Set & maintain multi-years financial targets.**:

- **Develop and run financial models, simulations, scenarios, business cases (on projects, M&A, call for tenders ) to support decision making and provide a comprehensive view on the financial implications of business decisions.**:

- **Anticipate financial risks & opportunities and advise on mitigation strategies.**:

- **Identify and secure external funding opportunities.**:
***Analyze & advise***:

- Produce accurate financial reporting, at the appropriate level of granularity.**
- **Assess the actual financial performance, analyse deviations and advise on corrective actions.**:

- **Analyze cost base, revenues, unit costs (Airframe / Engine), R&D**:

- **Identify actionable drivers for optimization and competitiveness initiatives, monitor materialization of savings.**:

- **Anticipate financial risks and advise on mitigation strategies.**:

- **Anticipate financial opportunities.**

**Support execution & ensure data quality***:

- Compute Hourly Rate, support on Resource review & Headcount targets definition, prepare Chargeback & Cost reallocation models.**
- **Approve shopping carts, audit POs below approval thresholds (sampling approach), review commitments & accruals.**:

- **Trigger costs rebooking & costs transfer when needed.**

**Communicate***:

- Feed Investor Relations with relevant information supporting Airbus Equity Story.**

**2. ENSURE COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCE FINANCE PROCESSES**:
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- When applicable, Define, together with Tax, Treasury and Accounting, the appropriate funding/cost allocation schemes (APA eligibility, Management Fees, Service Recharging, Equity Funding, Cash Pooling...) and trigger corresponding actions (capital injections, service recharging, transfer prices ).**
- **When applicable, Review statutory accounts of affiliates under scope of responsibility.**:

- **Define appropriate cost accounting structure (cost centers, project codes ) matching business and finance requirements.**:

- **When applicable, Ensure finance processes are defined, documented and known, in particular for Public Contracts, Tax Credit, IAS38, Chargeback, Service Recharging, Management Fees...**:

- **Help the business navigate through and adhere to finance processes.**:

- **Ensure the strict adherence of Business to finance compliance requirements.**

**I- nteract with Auditors as required.**

**3. RAISE FINANCE AWARENESS IN THE BUSINESS***:

- Define and make available a finance toolbox (e.g. business case).**
- **Define and share a set of referential (targets, actuals, pro-format, finance roadmap, CPN repository ).**:

- **Explain and raise Business awareness on finance matters (key notions, company financials, technical considerations, e.g. tax, capitalization...).**:
**Main activities**

Secure the financial execution of the contracts in scope regarding the deliveries of materials, repairs, consignments and logistics under the delegation of the Services Program controllers. Steer the operational flows from a financial point of view

Secure the actual achievement by the CoC of the annual targets.

Secure the revenues & cash collections from customers related with materiel services delivered under the contracts

Business partner role, supporting the decision making process and improvement projects. Identification of inefficiencies / problems in material support processes and associated correcting actions

Drives CoC financial reviews, derives corrective measures, monitors the action plan and ensures consistency with other processes

Inventory monitoring and risk management

Support to day-to-day operations with financial impact in the area (expenses, subcontracting, material support IT systems, etc)

Interfaces with other functions: Procurement and their controllers and other supporting functions (e.g. Quality)

**Outputs**:

- Services Material Levy (planning and actuals), securing transparency and target achievement
- Business Cases of projects
- One single point of truth for financial reporting and targets of activities: Actuals, Planning (OP, etc), Program reviews
- Annual budget approval and distribution to CoC
- Risk Management (ERM)
- Ad hoc financial information to enable decision taking by CoC

**Request**
- Finance Master degree is required or demonstrated experience in Controlling area
- Finance experience is requested >5 Years
- English and Spanish are compulsory: fluid level
- Communication and networking skills
- Accounting or Audit experience will be valuated
- SAP and excel advanced user

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