Finance Analyst; Temporary

You will be responsible for business controlling activities across various Airbus Services perimeters in the Americas. Reporting directly to the Head of Services Finance (Americas), the incumbent will deliver key financial reporting, cost controlling, and advanced performance management analysis to operations to drive critical business decisions.

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A): 40%

• Comprehensively plan the growth and development of the regional Services business within the Annual Operative Planning (AOP) cycle.
• Prepare and deliver regional financial reviews, performing deep-dive root-cause analyses on budget over/under-performance. Translate raw variance data into actionable risk-mitigation or opportunity-exploitation strategies.
• Actively customize and deploy AI Use-Case Assessments for Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting to transition the department toward predictive, machine-learning-driven rolling forecasts.
• Help champion the adoption of AI-powered data retrieval systems to eliminate manual data-gathering cycles, allowing the team and operational leaders to query P&L, headcount, and KPI metrics instantaneously.
• Assist the Head of Services Finance in preparing executive-level financial briefings, metrics, and dashboards for senior management (Airbus Americas and Global Services HQ).

Finance Controlling: 40%

• Perform rigorous business controlling over an annual Operational Expenditure (OPEX) perimeter of approximately USD 50 Million. Manage, analyze, and approve procurement and headcount-hiring pipelines, securing strict alignment with the locked regional targets.
• Implement and leverage basic AI use cases for Business Analytics and Decision Support to automate transaction categorization, identify spending anomalies, and streamline monthly OPEX variance analysis.
• Monitor, track, and analyze key P&L and balance sheet items including revenue and cost accruals, regional inventories, tangible/intangible assets, accounts receivable (AR), accounts payable (AP), and customer advance payments.
• Support the expansion of our Direct "Revenue-to-Cash" Free Cash Flow (FCF) methodology. Investigate opportunities to apply predictive cash-forecasting algorithms to regional collection pipelines to improve working capital predictability.

Cost Accounting Management: 20%

• Partner closely with regional Business Operations, Accounting, Financial Systems, and Consolidation teams to ensure cost accounting structures accurately reflect business activities under both IFRS and US GAAP.
• Formulate critical business parameters, such as unit costing models and effective hourly rates (operational and comprehensive), to support commercial teams in designing competitive pricing strategies.
• Develop transparent, robust overhead allocation methodologies to ensure equitable distribution of support function costs among diverse regional legal entities.

• Required Professional Experience & Financial Competence
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Science, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting a full P&L business, commercial contract operations, or financial planning cycle within a complex, geographically dispersed matrix organization.
  • Exceptional capacity to synthesize large volumes of structured and unstructured financial data into clear, management-ready insights.
  • Strong financial modeling skills with the ability to measure return on investment (ROI) via discounted cash flow (DCF) methods, NPV, IRR, and payback period calculations.
• Digital Literacy & Applied Financial AI
  • AI & Automation Orientation: A progressive, disruptive mindset with a strong interest or baseline experience in deploying modern Fin Tech/finance automation tools.
  • Familiarity with leveraging Generative AI platforms for market research, data retrieval, and executive drafting. Experience working with financial database such as SAP.
• Behavioral Competencies & Airbus Alignment
  • Natural inclination to act as a visible team player of finance and cultural "change" in both domestic and international settings.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills appropriate for a senior executive audience.
  • Excellent knowledge of, or ability to rapidly master, Airbus Corporate Units' strategy, policies, processes, and ERP tools (SAP, etc.).
  • Absolute commitment to the Airbus Integrity Principles, demonstrating ethical leadership and compliance-first behaviors at all times.