Finance Nextgen

In order to support Procurement Cost Base Controlling Germany Team, Airbus Defence and Space in Ottobrunn/Taufkirchen is looking for a

**Finance NextGen - Procurement Controller (d/f/m)**

Employing over 1000 professionals worldwide, Finance in Airbus Defence and Space offers opportunities to expand on experiences and grow within a dynamic organization. Whether it be within e.g accounting, controlling, costing, risk management or treasury, the Finance team uses collective intelligence and maximizes synergies to continuously improve and deliver results.

**Join Finance in Airbus Defence and Space**

The **Finance NextGen Programme **is an Airbus Defence and Space-wide development programme. This programme is designed to identify and develop talented Leaders for the Airbus Finance Community who will contribute significantly towards achieving our business goals. The Finance NextGen Programme - sponsored by Airbus Defence and Space CFO - enables its participants to enhance financial know-how and expertise, combined with further learning in management and leadership competencies.

The mission of the programme:
1. Fostering and deepening participants’ financial knowledge and expertise on the Airbus world of Finance, enlarging the scope to the international financial context

2. Linking formal learning with rotating, real-business project assignments

3. Increasing participants’ project management and leadership competencies

4. Encouraging networking, job shadowing, mobility and cross-cultural experiences

5. Mentorship from a member of the Finance Top Management

6. Invitation to a Airbus Defence & Space Finance Conference

This Program consists of two assignments in two different countries. Each assignment lasts for a period of two years. They are combined with off-the-job modules, designed to strengthen participant’s management and

financial competencies.

After your first two years in the programme, you will continue to develop your work experience by taking over a role in a different function in Finance (e.g. Project Control, Budgetary Control, Treasury, M&A) and country of Airbus Defence & Space in order to further develop your finance technical skills, your communication skills and your knowledge about Airbus.

**Your location**

Our site is just a stone's throw away from Munich, the beautiful capital of Bavaria. Are you into sports and other outdoor activities? The Alps and Lake Starnberg are within an hour’s reach, offering a multitude of recreational options.

**Your benefits**
- Attractive salary and special payments
- 30 days holidays and extra days-off for special occasions
- Excellent upskilling opportunities and great international, group wide development prospects
- Special benefits: employer-funded pension, employee stock options, discounted car leasing, special conditions for insurances, subsidies for public transport, employee benefits at cooperating companies
- On-site-facilities: Kindergarten close to the site, medical officer for check-ups and other health-related services, canteen and cafeteria, gym
- Compatibility of family & work (job sharing, part-time models, flexible working hours, individual timeout)
- Working in a diverse environment, with more than 140 nationalities, where every voice is heard

As **Procurement Controller (d/f/m) **you will take care of several entities in which the procurement function is represented in Germany.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

- Act as a business partner for the local management of the procurement organization in the different entities of your scope.
- Cost base controlling including planning, forecast, month-end closing and reporting activities. Drive variance analyses and corrective actions.
- Strive for harmonization, standardization and process improvements, aiming at increasing efficiency of the department, in alignment with procurement and program lines.
- Support realization and achievement of operative planning, improvement and transformation programs
- Own, manage and operate procurement financial model as well as ensure strong link with price audit organisations.

You will be a vital part in the Finance community with different links to project and program organizations.

As a challenging Financial Business Partner, you will contribute substantially to managing the profit & loss of your Operational Business Partner.

You will gather and provide data to enable educated decision making on management level and give visibility about performance versus targets.

You will highlight and analyze discrepancies and propose actions to optimize financial and operational performance. To do so, you will collaborate and challenge your business partners from Procurement departments.

Moreover, you will support key change decisions with your Business Partner (business cases, rate adaptation, major modifications etc.) and contribute to reduce the risks and optimize the costs, to look for long-term company profitability and c