Maintenance Repair

**Airbus Helicopters **is looking for a **Maintenance Repair & Overhaul (MRO) **Cost Controller **(f/m) **to join our Finance Department based in Marignane, France.

Within the Finance Directorate and 'Support and Services' Finance team, you are part of the MRO (Maintenance Repair & Overhaul) controlling team. You will drive MRO activities.

**Your working environment**:
Major economic hub with Marseille-Provence Airport, Marignane is a dynamic city in the southeast of France. It is located near the cities of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, which host a rich cultural and tourist offer. Close to the beaches of the Côte Bleue, it offers many options for water sports activities.

**How we care for you**:

- Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
- Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
- Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

**Your challenges**:
1. Responsibilities

The jobholder is responsible of
- Support & Preparation of the business plan and the forecast within the current year for Time and Material Business.
- Monitoring of MRO cost Base, Hourly rates and fixed costs along Finance processes (closing and reporting, forecast, OP, Budget).
- Support and coordination of profitability calculations, Lead your business partners in understanding performance, and support improvement plans and decision making.
- Build report & Assessing Risk Management on Balance Sheet items as Work In Progress.
- Lead your business partners in understanding performance and support improvement plans and decision making.
- Coordination of profitability calculations, support to business to understand contractual performance and financial drivers.
- The jobholder acts as a Business partner, supporting MRO Management and provides inputs on all economic and financial aspects
- The jobholder ensures adherence to Estimates At Completion (EAC) reference at the correct level of granularity to steer properly the business
- To support other controllers in analysis, investigations, data automation and ad-hoc requests
- To support the S&S Controlling community in transnational harmonization projects and ensure common ways of working
- To contribute to savings/improvements projects

2. Main activities
- Support the Head of MRO Controlling with the financial piloting of industrial activities and economic related topics and assist in the delivery of the consolidated financial reporting (define, harmonize and ensure consistency and compliance, incl. tools).
- Produce a consolidated reporting and analysis within a heterogeneous environment with several stakeholders; ensure full visibility of cost performance vs budget and vs. previous periods
- Deploy, drumbeat, and consolidate the planning, budgeting and forecasting processes
- Coordination with financial and MRO teams in AH, AHD and Customer Centers
- Drive standardization through the finance roadmap and requirements/deliverables to the Industrial team; implement local improvement initiatives such as a leaner month’s end reporting. Propose and coordinate mitigation actions if needed to support discussion and decision
- making at management level.
- Push for budget adherence and recurring cost improvements, contribute to improvement projects, and support on ad hoc requests from Audit and Accounting

3. Outputs
- The jobholder implements transnational reports and processes. Recommendation for decision making.
- The jobholder ensures the full financial visibility for all the processes through the implementation of new transnational tools supported by local inputs
- Monitoring performance against EAC reference and Budget incl. saving initiatives
- Measure business performance via collection, consolidation and synthesis of performance indicators. Manage performance through root cause analysis, risks/opportunities identification, recommendations in order to enable decision making. Identify/drive improvement projects to reach targeted performance. Support internal and external best practices identification & sharing

**Your profile**:

- Educated to honors degree or equivalent in mathematics, sciences, finance or business from a major University or Business School.
- High proficiency with MS Excel. Highly numerate and computer literate. Financially aware with high business partnering acumen.
- Critical thinking & ability t