About The Role
Imagine being the person who turns numbers into direction. You do not just report what happened, you help shape what happens next. As an FP&A Analyst at Destinus, you will work at the core of the business, connecting finance with operations, production, engineering, and leadership. Your analysis will help teams move faster, spend smarter, and make better decisions in a company building things that matter.
At Destinus, we are revolutionizing the defense industry with cutting-edge Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Our innovative technologies are designed to meet the unique demands of modern defense operations, delivering unparalleled speed, precision, and cost effectiveness. Destinus partners with government agencies and defense organizations worldwide to provide advanced solutions for mission-critical operations, enabling a new era of efficiency and technological superiority. Join us in shaping the future of defense with groundbreaking aerospace innovations.
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain financial models that support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning across multiple business areas
- Track performance against budget and forecast, explain variances, and surface what are driving results
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting cycles with accurate and timely analysis that help guide strategic decisions
- Monitor cost structures, margins, spending trends – flagging risks and opportunities to senior leads.
- Partner with finance, operations, procurement, production, and leadership to align financial insight with business activity.
- Prepare management reports, dashboards, and presentations that make complex data easy to understand and act on
- Support business cases for investments, headcount, production scaling, and new initiatives
- Handle ad hoc analysis requests and reconcile data to ensure accuracy across all outputs
- Help improve planning processes, reporting accuracy, and financial visibility across the organization
Requirements
What You’ll Need
- 4+ years of experience in FP&A, controlling, corporate finance, or a similar analytical finance role.
- Strong financial modeling and forecasting skills with a sharp eye for detail.
- Confidence working with Excel and financial reporting tools in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience with ERP systems and data analysis in operational or production-driven businesses.
- Strong understanding of budgeting, variance analysis, cost tracking, and performance reporting.
- Comfortable owning recurring processes while also improving them.
- Solid communication skills in English.
- Exposure to project-based cost control, inventory analysis, or production finance.
- Experience supporting scale-up or high-growth businesses
Who You Are
You thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift quickly and the stakes are real. You are analytical, structured, and naturally curious about how a business operates behind the numbers. When something does not add up, you do not ignore it, you dig deeper, challenge assumptions, and bring clarity. You are comfortable working with autonomy, taking ownership, and turning complexity into simple, actionable insights. You care about precision but never lose sight of the bigger picture, and you enjoy collaborating with teams across the business to make decisions that move things forward.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in FP&A, controlling, corporate finance, or a similar analytical finance role.
- Strong financial modeling and forecasting skills.
- Confidence working with Excel and financial reporting tools.
- Experience with ERP systems and data analysis in operational or production-driven businesses.
- Strong understanding of budgeting, variance analysis, cost tracking, and performance reporting.
- Comfortable owning recurring processes while also improving them.
- Solid communication skills in English.
- Exposure to project-based cost control, inventory analysis, or production finance.
- Experience supporting scale-up or high-growth businesses.
What We Do
Destinus is a European aerospace and defense company that designs and manufactures autonomous flight systems, including drones, strike-effectors, and counter-drone systems. They utilize a vertically integrated model, handling design, airframe engineering, propulsion, and AI software in-house. Their mission focuses on advancing aerospace technology across the speed spectrum to enhance defense capabilities and global connectivity, with a particular emphasis on scalable strike and air defense systems for European and allied forces.
