Job Description:
A new opportunity in Financial Controlling has opened in Airbus GBS.
You will join a transnational team of 14 people present in France, Germany, UK and Portugal, responsible for the financial controlling of Systems Engineering. This position which will give you a great opportunity to share practices and grow in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities - your mission
You will be the backbone of the team, empowering the Finance Business Partners by delivering accurate data, streamlined processes, and high-quality operational support.
You will play a key role in ensuring the financial reporting is reliable, efficient, and forward-looking.
Your day-to-day will focus on these key areas:
Forecasting & Planning Support: Support timely and accurate Cost Center Costs and Cost By Nature (CbN) planning for yearly and quarterly forecast exercises. This includes preparing working files, driving timelines with CbN Controllers, and performing data entry in the IBM Planning tool.
Closing & Financial Reporting: You will act as a key support during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities. You will assist in ensuring our financial records are accurate by handling tasks like cost reallocations, tracking open commitments, and monitoring team hours, ensuring our reporting is seamless.
Data Management & Reporting: Execute essential back-office tasks, to deliver timely and standardized reporting on key metrics (such as NRC, RC, Efficiency, and Travel expenses) to the department’s team.
Compliance & Master Data: Maintain data consistency and compliance across financial reporting tools and processes (e.g., Master Data maintenance, headcount status updates, and Purchase Order compliance checks).
Process Optimization: You will actively contribute to simplifying, harmonizing, and automating recurring manual tasks to make our financial operations leaner and faster.
Tool & Process Utilization: Leverage financial systems, basic legal/HR workflows, and foundational project management knowledge to support daily operations
Requirements - our ideal candidate will have
Degree in Business Management, Finance, Economics or other related areas
2-3 years of previous experience in Financial Controlling or related areas;
Highly recommended to have experience with Financial Tools such as SAP, IFRP, SAC (Fiori), Google Workplace (G-sheet, G-slides…)
A capacity to deliver recurring financial pictures with full accuracy on the data.
A capacity to understand the needs/expectations of a domain while keeping the consistency with above level guidance and financial targets
Talent for agile, reliable and fast data management
Entrepreneurial mindset:
Deliverable-driven, able to work with short deadlines
Good analytical skills with an ability to switch from big picture to detailed view, and to give meaning to complex facts and figures
Problem-solver
Proactive in proposing improvement solutions
Able to look at performance/sustainability on short/mid/long-term solutions
English is a must, knowledge of French / German would be a plus
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.
Company:
Airbus Portugal SAEmployment Type:
Permanent-------
Experience Level:
ProfessionalJob Family:
ControllingBy submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [email protected].
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.
Skills Required
- Degree in Business Management, Finance, Economics or related areas
- 2-3 years of experience in Financial Controlling or related areas
- Experience with financial tools (SAP, IFRP, SAC (Fiori), Google Workspace)
- Ability to deliver recurring financial reports with full data accuracy
- Understand domain needs while aligning with higher-level guidance and financial targets
- Agile, reliable, and fast data management skills
- Deliverable-driven; able to work to short deadlines
- Strong analytical skills; able to switch between big-picture and detailed views
- Problem-solving mindset and proactive in proposing improvements
- Ability to consider performance and sustainability for short/mid/long-term solutions
- Fluent English
- Knowledge of French or German
- Familiarity with IBM Planning tool and month-end/quarter-end/year-end closing processes
Airbus Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Airbus and has not been reviewed or approved by Airbus.
-
Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive in several locations, including medical, dental, and vision options available from day one in the U.S. Access to life insurance, disability coverage, and employee assistance/wellbeing support adds breadth to the health offering.
-
Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as a meaningful part of the package through plans such as a 401(k) with company matching in the U.S. These programs strengthen long-term financial security beyond base wages.
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions are described as generous in some settings, including vacation availability from day one and extended holiday coverage. Flexible working arrangements and hybrid options further increase the perceived value of time-related benefits.
Airbus Insights
What We Do
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2020, it generated revenues of €49.9 billion and employed a workforce of around 130,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as one of the world’s leading space companies. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide. Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry and a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale. We believe that it’s not just what we make, but how we make it that counts; promoting responsible, sustainable and inclusive business practices and acting with integrity. Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place, on the ground, in the sky and in space.







