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 · 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)