Job Description:
Take off with Airbus Helicopters!
Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Financial Controller (m/f) to join the Digital and Transformation Controlling Department based in Marignane, France.
Join us to shape the future of aeronautics and help protect lives during missions accomplished thanks to our helicopters.
The Marignane site, the 3rd largest industrial site in France, near Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, is undergoing a deep transformation to offer a high-tech, inclusive, and environmentally friendly working environment.
You will have a unique professional experience, at the heart of the manufacturing of our helicopters.
To learn more about our site and our activities: Airbus Helicopters - Marignane
Your future missions:
By joining our team, you will participate in the operations of the new Compliance and Performance Plan (CPP) arbitration bodies created in 2025. Together, we will contribute to the activity of the Digital and Transformation Controlling department by arbitrating, prioritizing, and properly financing the main strategic projects (265m€ / +200 projects) that will shape the future of the Airbus Helicopters division.
As the Financial Controller delegated to this new plan, your main missions will be:
Drive project performance: Lead data collection and consolidation, deliver Operating Plans (OP) and Forecasts, and effectively support and challenge the business cases proposed by different domains.
Coordinate financial exercises: Animate the domain controller network for Actuals, OP, and forecasts, while securing comprehensive reporting for the portfolio and ensuring a safe year-end landing.
Support board arbitration: Create comprehensive analyses and KPIs to reveal project value, link different arbitration bodies, and optimize funding by proposing alternatives and synergies.
Act as a Business Partner: Partner with board chairmen to ensure the proper financing of Opex/Capex arbitration and continuously improve existing processes.
Ensure compliance and audit readiness: Prepare cost rebalancing between AH and AHD on projects and provide robust support for audit preparations.
Your profile:
Min 8 years of professional experience
Financial skills
Technical expertise : SAP, MS Office pack and/or GSuite pack
Communication skills - English - advanced level
Leadership, adaptability, challenges oriented are essentials to succeed in this position
3 Reasons to join us:
Our Values: Six essential values form the core of our company. Defined for employees by employees, our Airbus values shape the DNA of our business, reflecting the unique mix of qualities found in each member of our global family.
Inclusion and diversity: We foster an inclusive and rewarding work environment, where everyone's diversity is valued and respected. An inclusive and diverse workforce is the engine of innovation at Airbus. It makes us unique and contributes to better problem-solving.
Compensation and benefits:
At Airbus, we build the future together and your success is our priority.
Expect a global, competitive, and transparent compensation package (including salaries, bonuses, profit-sharing, participation, and preferred share ownership plan), designed to reward the impact and performance you bring, both individually and collectively.
We invest in your complete well-being: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement, and a commitment to a supported work-life balance (parental support, flexibility).
And for your daily life, benefits that make a difference:
A dynamic CSE (Social and Economic Committee) offering many advantages (company restaurant, children's leisure center, associations and sports complex, travel allowances, etc.).
Transport facilities: Take advantage of our company shuttles or the reimbursement of your annual transport pass.
Our recruitment process:
Apply online.
Analysis of your application by the recruitment department.
Our positions require a security clearance, complete the questionnaire that will be sent to you.
Conduct recruitment interviews: HR interview and technical interview with your future manager.
Receive the job offer!
Ready to take off? Give a new dimension to your career by applying online now!
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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 Helicopters SASEmployment Type:
Permanent-------
Classe Emploi (France): Classe G14Experience 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
- Minimum 8 years of professional experience
- Strong financial skills (controlling, forecasting, budgeting)
- Technical expertise in SAP
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office or GSuite
- Advanced English communication skills
- Leadership, adaptability and results/challenge-oriented mindset
- Ability to obtain required security clearance
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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