FP&A Analyst

Wanna join the adventure?

As Loft Orbital continues to grow and expand its program portfolio, our French Finance team is looking for an FP&A Analyst to join us in Toulouse.

Reporting to the Senior FP&A Manager, France , you will play a key role in monitoring and forecasting the financial performance of our programs and operating expenses. You will work closely with Program Managers, Department Heads, Accounting, HR and our US FP&A team, providing financial insights and decision support across the business.This is a highly cross-functional role combining program controlling, forecasting, budgeting and business partnering in a fast-paced, international environment.

About this role:

Program FP&A

• Monitor the financial performance of several programs across our portfolio, including program P&Ls, material and launch hardware costs, supplier costs and cash flows.
• Support monthly and annual closings, ensuring COGS are allocated to the correct programs and cost categories and coordinating any required reclassifications with Accounting.
• Ensure the reliability and consistency of program revenue, COGS and cash-in/cash-out forecasts, with a focus on reducing EAC (Estimate at Completion) variances.
• Lead EAC update campaigns with Program Managers and maintain clear documentation and traceability of underlying assumptions.
• Ensure consistent EAC reference baselines across monthly reporting, forecasts and the Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
• Identify, analyze and explain variances against initial program budgets, AOP and current-year forecasts.
• Maintain Risks & Opportunities (R&O) scenarios for each program, quantifying their potential financial impact and ensuring consistency across forecasting and reporting exercises.
• Lead financial program reviews with Program Managers, presenting revenue, COGS, cash flow, forecasts and R&O scenarios and incorporating review outcomes into forecasts.
• Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and decision support, including margin analysis and what-if scenarios.
• Contribute to the preparation of the FY+1 budget for programs.

New programs & opportunities

• Set up financial P&Ls for new programs.
• Support the bid phase by reviewing cost estimates, margin assumptions and cash profiles for new opportunities.
• Work with Accounting to select the appropriate revenue recognition model based on Loft's internal guidelines and best practices.
• Build the initial program P&L using the approved EAC, customer pricing and revenue recognition model, establishing the financial baseline for future budgeting and reporting.

Opex FP&A

• Lead Opex reviews with Department Heads, presenting actuals and forecasts, analyzing variances against plan and implementing resulting adjustments and reforecasts.
• Monitor headcount and labor costs against plan in coordination with HR.
• Contribute to the preparation of the FY+1 Opex budget, including headcount planning.

Business partnering & continuous improvement

• Build strong, trusted relationships with Program Managers, Department Heads, HR and Accounting, reinforcing Finance's role as a key business partner.
• Work closely with Accounting to maintain an integrated day-to-day operating model between FP&A and Accounting.
• Collaborate with the US FP&A team to ensure consistent methodologies and timely consolidated reporting. Occasional calls during US working hours may be required.
• Help optimize, automate and digitalize financial management tools and processes across Programs and Opex, including increasing the use of AI.
• Contribute to ad-hoc financial projects and analyses requested by management.

Must Haves:

• 3–5 years in FP&A, management control (contrôle de gestion), financial audit, or related work.
• Solid program/project controlling knowledge, including EAC, revenue recognition over time, and R&O management.
• Strong accounting fundamentals: P&L, accruals, and cut-off.
• Fluent French and English, written and spoken; English is Loft’s working language.
• Advanced Excel: financial modeling, complex formulas, and pivot tables.
• Strong analytical skills, rigor, and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and ability to present financials clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proactive, autonomous, collaborative, and able to deliver under tight deadlines in a fast-paced scale-up.
• Program/project controlling experience in an industrial or project-based environment.
• Aerospace or space industry experience.
• BI/reporting-tool experience.
• ERP experience, with NetSuite preferred.
• Strong appetite for using AI in Finance; hands-on Claude experience is a plus.
• Experience improving, automating, or digitalizing financial management processes and tools.
• Equity, we want you to have an active role in our success
• Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT ) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best
• Health and life insurance, we care about your health
• Lunch Vouchers, because let’s be honest, we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it #loft-gourmand)
• Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences
• Company and team off-sites and many other events to work & celebrate together
• Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable