Plant Engineering Controlling Business Partner: 

• Supporting our Plant Engineering Teams in Broughton, UK and Bremen in Germany through financial business partnering the Wing Head of Plant Engineering Airbus, providing accurate and meaningful financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting.

• In the scope of the larger Wing Engineering Airframe team, the Plant Engineering team is providing production engineering support to the Wing Production Plants (reactive), the identification of solutions within the main production process (corrective) and development of operations’ knowledge in Engineering (preventive). This mission encompasses all Airbus Commercial Aircraft programmes .

Wing Airframe Consolidation:

• Focal point for consolidation of Wing Airframe controlling, using digital skills to run large data sets to produce simple and meaningful data for the Head of Wing Airframe controlling. 

• Ensuring data for financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting is captured from the Wing Airframe controlling team in a simplistic and automated manner to provide meaningful data for Airframe Engineering teams. This will include all financial reporting requirements for Wing Airframe Controlling. 

• Working closely with central Airframe controlling, ensure consolidated data from Wing Airframe is accurate, timely and consistent.

• As part of the Wing Airframe Controlling team, to be the focal point for the financial process in Wing Airframe subcontracting, collating data and ensuring compliance with Engineering Handbook. Working closely with the Wing Airframe subcontracting management team, ensuring robust actual and forecasting of the subcontracting workload.

Tasks & accountabilities:

• Drive performance management and improvement.

• Analyse quantitative and qualitative data on performance against budgets/targets highlighting discrepancies and risks & opportunities.

• Propose/coordinate mitigation actions if needed to support discussions and decision making at Management level.

• Controls wing airframe engineering  actuals vs forecasts, corrective measures, hourly-rates, Subcontract audit).

• Contribute to earned value management when required and contribute to cash planning.

• Use financial processes and tools, basic legal and HR processes, and basic project management and technical knowledge in operational areas.

• Ensure timely and meaningful planning & reporting.

• Establish consolidated financial reporting (define, harmonise and ensure consistency and compliance, incl. tools).

• Manage targets set by programs (non-recurring cost) through a converged process.

• Plan workload and workforce according to targets & function strategy, plans & steers resources accordingly together with Engineering Wing Airframe resource management.

• Drive financials and workload planning/forecast process (synthesise plans and challenge contributions).

• Support the business in decision making and ensure the adherence to financial targets and the strict compliance of official transactions.

You will prepare:

• Financial Planning and Year-End Forecasts including convergence with the respective programmes

• Quarterly and yearly financial reports, understanding deviations and proposing recovery actions whenever necessary

• You will accompany & assist people, explain, give meaning to Finance drivers and processes and closely support the engineers.

• You will contribute to the transformation of Finance for Engineering (Tools, Ways of Working,...) and you will participate in Engineering transformation projects.

Requirements - our ideal candidate will have

• A capacity to understand the needs/ expectations of a domain while ensuring the overall centre level remains in line with operational targets.

• To develop strong links of trust with the Airframe community, Engineering Controlling  Central Team and production plant Programs.

• To anticipate difficulties of coming challenges, Forecast submissions & feedbacks via Actuals and operational indicators reviews

• Good analytical skills to give meaning to complex facts and figures

• Digital skills and advanced user of google/excel spreadsheets, familiarity with SQL databases or similar would be advantageous, in order to write and develop financial reports for Wing Airframe controlling.

• Being able to present synthetic outputs and key messages to your business, to the Head of Wing Airframe controller, to Airframe controlling Central Team and to your colleagues.

• Autonomy, enthusiasm and continuous improvement spirit

• Experience in financial planning mandatory

• Business partnering mind-set (i.e. developing a trustful relationship, building empathy and focusing on added value)

• Able to challenge at different operational levels based on a solid analysis

• Strong Team spirit & team work

• Ability to steer people and activities transversally

• Good communication & presentation skills

• English is a must; knowledge of French / German / Spanish would be a plus

Benefits - what’s in it for you

• The chance to work in a multicultural environment.

• The opportunity to grow your skills and capabilities thanks to our Airbus learning offer (digital solutions, classroom sessions, certified training....) and career opportunities across the globe. 

• A hybrid working model, allowing you to combine onsite and offsite work. 

• A modern office well connected to public transportation.

• A motivated and fun crew to grow and build and shape the GBS together.

• An intense and exciting onboarding experience.

This role will involve some limited travel for business in Europe and as such you must be able to travel accordingly (approx 25% of time).