Finance NextGen - Financial Analyst / Cost Engineer

Airbus; Getafe; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Airbus Defence & Space Getafe invites applications for a Financial Analyst / Cost Engineer as part of the Finance NextGen Programme. This two-year, two-assignment track develops leaders by deepening financial know-how and management skills within international projects.

You will consolidate data for educated management decisions, support monthly closings, plan target costs, and challenge supplier quotations.

Formación

• Master's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 3-5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Finance experience in Finance/Accounting/Cost-Accounting/Project-Controlling/Reporting would be an advantage.

Responsabilidades

• Consolidating, supporting and preparing finance exercise as part of the Getafe F&C team.
• Implement the standardization of monthly closing reporting.
• Focal point for internal Finance customer requests and deep analysis.
• Provide cost calculations in cooperation with Engineering, Programmes, Procurement and other stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain cost models and data analyses for internal costing actors.
• Support supplier negotiations and contribute to the supplier strategy.

Conocimientos

Financial analysis

Cost accounting

Project controlling

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Critical thinking

Educación

Master's degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering

Herramientas

SAP SP1

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

Google Suite

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

The Finance NextGen Programme is an Airbus Defence & Space wide development programme. This programme is designed to identify and develop talented Leaders for the Airbus Finance Community who will contribute significantly towards achieving our business goals. The FinanceNextGen Programme - sponsored by Airbus Defence & Space CFO - enables its participants to enhance financial know-how and expertise, combined with further learning in management and leadership competencies.

This Program consists of two assignments in two different countries. Each assignment lasts for a period of two years. They are combined with off-the-job modules, designed to strengthen participant's management and financial competencies.

The mission of the programme

• Fostering and deepening participants' financial knowledge and expertise on the Airbus world of Finance, enlarging the scope to the international financial context.
• Linking formal learning with rotating, real-business project assignments.
• Increasing participants' project management and leadership competencies.
• Encouraging networking, job shadowing, mobility and cross-cultural experiences.
• Mentorship from a member of the Finance Top Management.

The successful applicant will join the Air Power Performance Engineering F&C Team in Getafe. You will join the team as Financial Analyst / Cost Engineer. The scope of responsibility includes finance controlling, consolidation and costing activities related with New Programmes mainly. Costing activities include, among others, to plan future target costs for products, development activities, and services of Airbus as well as to challenge supplier quotations for their fair value.

As a Financial Analyst you will be a vital part in the Finance community to gather and consolidate the data to enable educated decision making on management level and give visibility about performance versus targets in an international environment.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Consolidating, supporting and preparing finance exercise as Operational Planning, EAC, Forecast, End of Year Estimation, Budget within the Operations & Engineering F&C team in Getafe.
• Implement the standardization strategy for monthly closing reporting at TFAO Perimeter level, automatization of activities, co-pilot the finance strategy with the operational improving communication and better finance understanding.
• Focal point for Internal Finance Customer demand, as general queries, deep analysis on specific matter, new way of working implementation, task request by the business.
• Compiling relevant information and providing advice to clarify needs (e.g. assumptions, specifications, premises) for specific cost calculations in cooperation with the internal customer (e.g. Engineering, Programmes, VSM, Production, Procurement) and based on prior experience.
• Technical responsibility for a defined range of tasks.
• Decision on the costing methodology and the references to be assumed.
• Assessment of risks and opportunities in costing; identification of cost drivers (e.g. processes, design premises); providing recommendations regarding the optimisation of the analysed cost basis; including full documentation of the costing result and presentation of the results to the customer.
• Knowledge management: maintaining and sharing expertise and current knowledge of the processes, methods, and industrial set-up of the internal customers (e.g. Programmes, Procurement, Production), the suppliers.
• Supporting and actively contributing to improvement measures (e.g. processes, tools), also with regard to sustainability.
• Internal and cross-divisional harmonisation of cost models, methods, and tools. Continuous development of cost models and data analyses that can be used by other costing actors.
• Accomplishment of all business activities in compliance with all relevant internal and external regulations/legislation; escalation of occurring Ethics & Compliance issues.
• Supporting supplier negotiations, contributing to the supplier strategy and internal strategic go/no-go decisions.
• Cost by destination oriented, providing management with transparent information vital to the decision-making process, advancing recovery measures in case of potential deviations in a changing and volatile environment (development programs with a multi-companies and multi-countries set-up).

SKILLS

• Master's degree in mechanical or electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 3-5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Finance experience in the areas of Finance / Accounting / Cost-Accounting / Project-Controlling / Reporting would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of SAP SP1 and ability to learn and adapt on new systems.
• Proficiency in Microsoft office (Excel, Power Point) and Google Suite.
• Ability to deal with various stakeholders and all levels of management.
• Critical thinking & ability to constructively challenge the operational business.
• Able to work in a mul