Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation, our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.
In Singapore, Thales has been a trusted partner since 1973, originally focused on aerospace activities in the Asia-Pacific region. With 2,000 employees across three local sites, we deliver cutting-edge solutions across aerospace (including air traffic management), defence and security, and digital identity and cybersecurity sectors. Together, we’re shaping the future by enabling customers to make pivotal decisions that safeguard communities and power progress.Responsibilities
- Ensure the consolidation of the financial aspects of the version contents and manage related alerts with the EDMs or PMs
- Assist in the vision and roadmap consolidation with the EDM and ensure workload and teams/squads inter- dependencies are well identified
- Ensure coherence between the teams, managed through work packages, and squads with planned backlog and workload, velocity, capacity
- Ensure capitalisation process is deployed and analyse results both to manage EAC or engage new quoting process for business support
- Manage workload associated plans or alerts (reinforcement or rearrangement of the squads) with the HoD and the EDMs
- Support the roadmap and vision by ensuring consistency with the workload of the teams and squads
- Deploy a robust process to support Financial EAC projection
- Analyse the current situation, propose a transition plan with short/mid/long term objectives
- Define metrics and routines to follow and monitor the progress of the financial activities
- Support the teams to reinforce our way of working
- Adjust our approach depending on the type of subcontract (full delegation, center of services, …).
- Anticipate issue and mitigation with EDMs
Main Outputs
- Financial consolidation and associated plans per Product Increment
- Workload consolidation and associated plans
- KPI on finance and workload
- Earn value deployment and consolidation
Success criteria
- Clear financial predictability
- Clear and reliable workload and capacity projection per PI Planning and at project termination
- Clear and reliable earn value management
- Updated Cost Model available all along the product journey
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Qualifications
- Relevant Degree from recognised institution or relevant work experience (10+ years)
Experience
- A track record of delivering successful software complex projects in contexts relevant to Thales
- Full engineering lifecycle management, including software engineering, specification engineering, qualification and deployment.
- Very good understanding and strong experience of Cost/financial management
- Experience on complex program with numerous stakeholders
- Comprehensive understanding of generic processes and techniques used to schedule project activities (for example; WBS, OBS, milestones, cost models, dependencies, EVM, workload).
- Working in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site and multi-country organisation
- Knowledge and skills
- Good engineering knowledge including process, methods, tooling and environments
- Deep knowledge of traditional WP breakdown and Agile@Scale approach
- The ability to directly manage subcontractors in a complex program, ensuring best interest of the Company is always upheld
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Skills Required
- Relevant degree from recognised institution or relevant work experience (10+ years)
- Track record delivering successful complex software projects
- Full engineering lifecycle management including software engineering, specification, qualification and deployment
- Very good understanding and strong experience of cost/financial management
- Experience on complex programs with numerous stakeholders
- Comprehensive understanding of scheduling processes and techniques (WBS, OBS, milestones, cost models, dependencies, EVM, workload)
- Experience working in complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site and multi-country organisations
- Good engineering knowledge including processes, methods, tooling and environments
- Deep knowledge of traditional work package breakdown and Agile@Scale approach
- Ability to directly manage subcontractors in a complex program
Thales Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thales and has not been reviewed or approved by Thales.
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans with employer contributions and matches, profit sharing, and share purchase opportunities are emphasized across multiple regions. These elements are positioned as competitive components of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO that increases with tenure, paid holidays, and paid military, maternity, and paternity leave are described. This breadth supports work–life balance across locations.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid work options, flexible schedules, and parental supports such as childcare benefits and leave for sick children are available in several markets. Flexibility is presented as a core part of the employee experience.
Thales Insights
What We Do
Thales is a global high technology leader investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust, which is vital to the development of our societies. The company provides solutions, services and products that help its customers – businesses, organisations and states – in the defence, aeronautics, space, transportation and digital identity and security markets to fulfil their critical missions, by placing humans at the heart of the decision-making process.
