Business Accounting Specialist (M/F)

Job Description

Airbus Defence and Space is looking for a Business Accounting Specialist (f/m) to join the finance team based in Toulouse, France.

The role ensures that all accounting requirements are accurately applied and understood, supports controlling teams in resolving accounting‑related questions, and contributes to audit readiness by providing clear justifications of accounting treatments. The position collaborates closely with the consolidation team, country accounting teams, technical accounting experts, and external auditors.

Your Working Environment

Toulouse is the global capital of aeronautics and the European capital for space research. It is a dynamic city in the southwest of France, served by an international airport and located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, close to the Pyrenees mountains.

Benefits

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan, and voluntary employee stock purchase plan.
• Work/Life balance: Extra days‑off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, staff council with social, cultural and sporting activities.
• Well‑being/Health: Complementary health insurance coverage, on‑site health services, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual development: Up‑skilling opportunities with unlimited access to over 10,000 e‑learning courses, certification support, accelerated development programmes, and national and international mobility.

Leadership and Coordination

• Act as the primary accounting contact for Controlling teams, providing guidance and resolving accounting‑related questions.
• Coordinate with Controlling Program teams to understand operational impacts and translate them into correct accounting entries.
• Collaborate with Consolidation and Country Accounting teams to ensure aligned and consistent reporting across regions.
• Serve as the focal point with Technical Accounting for AD&S Accounting and Controlling teams.

Accounting and Technical Expertise

• Apply IFRS/GAAP accounting standards to ensure accurate treatment of business transactions.
• Analyse complex contracts and support technical accounting assessments in collaboration with national Accounting teams and Group Technical Accounting (IFRS 15 review).
• Review and validate accounting requirements for new or existing business programs and design more efficient accounting and reporting schemes to reduce complexity.
• Identify and analyse discrepancies, proposing actions to optimize accounting process performance.

Reporting, Audit and Compliance

• Ensure an adequate level of internal control in complex and/or transnational contracts.
• Prepare accounting documentation to support audits and justify applied accounting treatments.
• Address auditor questions in coordination with internal teams to ensure smooth audit processes.
• Maintain consistency of auditable information on key programmes, centralising the quarterly consolidated accounting for key programmes and balance‑sheet exposure.

Support and Continuous Improvement

• Support the preparation of key closing topics (KCTs) and organise consolidated closing meetings.
• Translate financial information into deliverables for the group, ensuring consistent presentation of KCTs and disclosures.
• Assist in implementing processes and accounting rules for monthly financial statements, identifying gaps or inefficiencies and proposing improvements.
• Contribute to standardisation of accounting procedures across programmes and countries.
• Promote digitalisation and harmonisation of processes across all entities.
• Participate in the bid process for major contracts and oversee the correct application of accounting principles.

Profile

Education & Professional Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 3‑5 years of experience in accounting, audit, or similar finance environments.
• Experience interacting with controlling, audit, consolidation, or technical accounting teams is highly desirable.

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of IFRS (IFRS 15 familiarity is a must).
• Solid experience with general ledger accounting and period‑end close processes.
• Proficiency in Excel and ERP systems.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication skills, especially when explaining accounting matters to non‑accountants.
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders (Managers, Senior Managers, Technical Accounting).
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities with high attention to detail.
• Proactive and collaborative mindset, comfortable working across teams and countries.

Security Clearance

This position requires a security clearance or eligibility for clearance by the recognized authorities.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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

Company Information

Airbus Defence and Space SAS

Employment Type

Permanent

Job Family

Accounting