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 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.

Your Role:

• To support Business Analysis: Business Advisory & Innovation:
• Requirements management: To gather, analyze and document business requirements. This involves conducting workshops, interviews, and surveys with finance professionals to understand their current processes, pain points, and desired future state.
• Process Optimization: To 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: To work closely with IT and other business stakeholders to evaluate potential solutions, assess their feasibility, and ensure alignment with the business's strategic goals. You create detailed functional specifications and use cases to guide development.
• Data crunching & Analysis: To analyze financial data to uncover trends and patterns, and define the data and reporting needs for new systems. This includes ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and compliance with regulations. Dealing with technical solutions such as Palentir, SAP SAC, Sportfire, BW4H.
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT): To define and execute UAT using JIRA ensuring all business requirements are met.
• Change management activities: To accompany business teams with digital culture, training, live support, participation to business team meetings.
• To lead project & animate digital community: Portfolio management: To review project request, prepare one pager support prioritization and deliver Business Case Project planning & execution: To develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation. You oversee the project from initiation to completion, ensuring all milestones are met. Stakeholder Management: To be the primary point of contact for all stakeholders, from senior management to end-users. You manage expectations, communicate progress, and resolve conflicts to maintain alignment and support.
• Risk and Issue Management: To proactively identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies. You also track and resolve issues as they arise, preventing them from derailing the project.
• Project Leadership and Coordination: To lead and motivate a cross-functional team, which can include business analysts, developers, quality assurance testers, and finance subject matter experts. You coordinate, give meaning to tasks and ensure effective collaboration in an Agile scrum methodology.
• Change Management: To work closely with the business to manage the organizational change that comes with new systems and processes, ensuring user adoption through effective communication, training, and support.

What you need to make real, what matters:

• Leadership and social competencies
• Proficient in English command
• Work experiences in international environment and business experiences in various regions, ideally in large complex organizations or consulting firms
• Knowledge about Finance (Accounting, Controlling, Treasury, Tax), Compliance and Audit Business Processes
• In-depth Experience in Digital and SAP landscape, leading large scale projects in Reporting, Advance analytics, Planning/EPM implementations and other related Finance, Supply Chain or Manufacturing systems/digital solutions (Reporting & Planning, applied AI, data-hub, etc.)
• Strong interest in new digital technologies & new way of working
• Experience in leading Digital project teams, managing project-portfolios, running multiple initiatives in parallel
• University Degree

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:

• Global, competitive and transparent compensation package (including salaries, bonuses, profit-sharing, participation, and preferred share ownership plan)
• Professional development (training, mentoring, international mobility)
• Health coverage
• Retirement
• Supported work-life balance (parental support, flexibility)
• 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: company shuttles or reimbursement of your annual transport pass

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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

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.

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

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