Finance Transformation Specialist - Reporting & Planning (f/m)

Job Description

Take off with Airbus Helicopters! Airbus Helicopters is looking for a Finance Transformation Specialist – Reporting & Planning (f/m) to join the Finance 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 live a unique professional experience, at the heart of the manufacturing of our helicopters.

Your Future Missions

This role supports Finance processes & system execution as well as the transformation journey at Airbus Helicopters (AH). You will contribute to projects focused on simplification, harmonization, standardization and innovation. As a key member of the Finance Transformation team, you will help maintain digital assets, implement new technologies, and promote new ways of working with end‑users. Located at the AH Marignane site, you will play a crucial role in animating the France Finance community on digital and transformation topics. Your mission involves providing new digital capabilities and collaborating closely with IT and business teams to deliver optimized solutions for data analysis, performance dashboards, and simulations.

Responsibilities

• Support business analysis and business advisory & innovation: develop and promote digital excellence and a culture of innovation.
• Requirements management: gather, analyse, and document business requirements, conduct workshops, interviews, and surveys with finance professionals to understand current processes, pain points, and desired future state.
• Process optimisation: identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs; often dealing with SAP S4H, SAP MDG, Celonis, BI solutions, and RPA implementation.
• Solution benchmark & design: collaborate with IT and other business stakeholders to evaluate potential solutions, assess feasibility, and ensure alignment with strategic goals; create detailed functional specifications and use cases to guide development.
• Data crunching & analysis: analyse financial data to uncover trends and patterns, define data and reporting needs for new systems, ensure data accuracy, integrity, and compliance with regulations; work with solutions such as Palentir, SAP SAC, Sportfire, BW4H.
• User acceptance testing (UAT): define and execute UAT using JIRA to ensure all business requirements are met.
• Change management activities: accompany business teams with digital culture, training, live support, participate in business team meetings.
• Lead project & animate digital community: portfolio management, prepare one‑pager support prioritisation, develop comprehensive project plans (scope, timelines, budgets, resource allocation), and oversee the project from initiation to completion.
• Stakeholder management: serve as the primary point of contact for all stakeholders, from senior management to end‑users, managing expectations, communicating progress, and resolving conflicts.
• Risk and issue management: proactively identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, track and resolve issues to prevent derailment of the project.
• Project leadership and coordination: lead and motivate cross‑functional teams (business analysts, developers, QA testers, finance subject matter experts), coordinate tasks and ensure effective collaboration in an Agile scrum methodology.
• Work closely with the business to manage the organisational change that comes with new systems and processes, ensuring user adoption through effective communication, training, and support.

Qualifications

• Leadership and social competencies.
• Proficiency in English.
• Experience in international environments and in large complex organisations or consulting firms.
• Knowledge of finance (accounting, controlling, treasury, tax, compliance, audit business processes).
• In‑depth experience in digital and SAP landscape; leading large‑scale projects in reporting, advanced analytics, planning/EPM implementations and other related finance, supply chain or manufacturing systems/digital solutions.
• Strong interest in new digital technologies and new ways of working.
• Experience leading digital project teams, managing project portfolios, running multiple initiatives in parallel.
• University degree.

Expected Business Impact

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 Class and Employment

Company: Airbus Helicopters SASEmployment Type: PermanentClasse Emploi (France): Classe G13Experience Level: ProfessionalJob Family: Financial Expertise

Reasons to Join Us

• Values: Six essential values form the core of our company, fostering an inclusive and rewarding work environment.
• Diversity and inclusion: We foster an inclusive and rewarding work environment, where everyone's diversity is valued and respected.
• Compensation and benefits: Global, competitive and transparent compensation package (salaries, bonuses, profit‑sharing, participation, preferred share ownership plan).
• Well‑being: professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility), health coverage, retirement, work‑life balance support.
• Additional benefits: dynamic CSE (social and economic committee), company restaurant, children’s leisure centre, sports complex, travel allowances, and transport facilities (company shuttles or reimbursement of annual transport pass).

Equal Opportunity Statement

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. 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