Junior Budgeting and reporting Controller

The Responsibilities that the Controller & Reporting can be summarized into three main categories:

• Reporting,
• Controlling,
• Digitalization.
  
  

This also includes ad-hoc analysis and the consolidation of financial data gathered from the legal entities across the three region,

1 – REPORTING:

BORs (Business Operations Reviews): the BOR is a monthly review that presents the financial data of the month to both the Local and Corporate Top Management. This includes:

• Defining, issuing and monitoring the BOR instructions & calendar for the area,
• Supporting to Country & Region CFO in the BOR construction,
• Consolidating the data reported in Thales reporting tool Magnitude, as well as supporting documents coming from all the countries,
• Creating smart and “directly to the point” dashboards, analysis and take away while ensuring the adequacy of figures,
  
  

MYB (multiyear budget); the MYB is Thales period when the Budget is done on the next three coming years. This includes:

• Defining, issuing and monitoring the MYB instructions & calendar for the area
• Guiding and supporting the Heads of Functions in the buildup of their budgets,
• Preparing and participating in Steerco meetings, to present the next Budget assumptions and analysis,
• Consolidating the data received by the countries, and challenging them based on actuals and previous years data,
• Ensuring adequacy of figures in various dashboards
  
  

2 –CONTROLLING

Budget & Operation Controlling responsibilities:

• Ensure the coordination and consistency of the Cost Matrix during monthly closing and budget exercises,
• Provide the CFOs and Heads of Function their Actuals, accurate variances analysis and costs optimization strategies,
• Support the competitiveness initiative launched at regional level, including the calculation of the Hourly Rate, regional Overhead, Shared Services and workload follow-up,
• Support the area controller defining in cooperation with HR and Operation, budget assumptions (productive hours, labor costs evolution etc.),
• Assist in all other ad-hoc reports upon management request and/or related to environmental changes.
  
  

3 – DIGITALIZATION

ERP and tools management and development:

• Ensure the proper use of the Thales digital Budget controlling tool Anaplan (web tool for Cost matrix and Headcount follow-up) and support the on-going development of new modules,
• Manage the good coordination between the Central Finance teams and the country controllers,
• Develop and improve the existing templates and tools currently used by the finance teams to reach the objective of standardized tools for the region.
  
  

Requirements

• Required and 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in similar positions
• Experience in audit or as a FP&A position is preferred.
• Knowledge of IFRS is a plus.
  
  

Prior experience managing budgets, conducting in-depth financial analysis and submitting recommendations for consideration is preferred

• Bachelor degree in Accounting / Audit or corporate Finance (mandatory)
• Master degree in Accounting / Audit or corporate Finance (preferred)
  
  

Controlling or Accounting certification (CIMA, ACCA, CPA) (preferred)