Senior Manager, FP&A

Airbus • Columbus, MS

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Are you a strategic finance leader who thrives at the intersection of operational excellence and financial precision? Airbus Helicopters North America is seeking a Senior Manager, FP&A to serve as a pivotal Finance Business Partner. This is a high-impact leadership role where you won't just report on the P&L—you will drive it. From overseeing five-year operating plans to guiding multi-million dollar program decisions, you will be the financial compass for our business line owners, ensuring that our mission to provide the world’s most advanced helicopter solutions remains financially robust and strategically sound.

Meet The Team: Our Finance and Accounting team members need excellent analytical and communication skills to successfully manage our financial portfolio. Our teams provide key analytics – from month-end closing to performance management analysis for our partners. If you’re analytical, detail oriented and have a passion for numbers, you’ll enjoy working with our cross-functional global team.

Your Working Environment: On the eastern border of Mississippi you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

How we care for you: Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”) Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program. Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.

Your Challenges: Act as a Financial Business Partner: 30% Develop robust and transparent working relationships with heads of business, program managers and key operational stakeholders enabling the free flow of business critical information. Translate financial information into usable and relevant operational information to drive performance through implementable actions. Ensure transparency and understanding of financial drivers and their impact on the revenue, margin and cash performance of the business and products. Provide and communicate quantitative & qualitative data to the business leaders in order to support and facilitate business decision making. Become a critical member of the program organizations offering expert advice and support whilst still maintaining the empowerment to challenge the business. Increase business management validation and Risks & Ops focus with Quantification. Transaction, Performance, KPI review. Includes Pre-closing communication and Closing communication Control cost for OPEX, CAPEX, Depreciation, etc. Support for Decision Making: 20% Prepare all necessary data required to explain the financial performance of the business with clear linkages to project and operational performance. Complete, analyze and publish key business and financial indicators relevant to the specific business and operational area. Proactively highlight possible areas of performance deterioration and plan deviation both financial and operational, offering mitigation and rectification plans to adhere to business and financial commitments. Identify, quantify and compile all risks and opportunities against the agreed plan, working with owners and influencers to mitigate risks and materialise opportunities. Work with the R&O manager to ensure the central tracking tool (ARM) is accurate, up to date and financial values are validated. Plan and Support Target Setting: 20% Lead and prepare the annual AHNA Operation Plan (OP) (5 year operating plan) along with periodic forecasts (1, 2 & 3) with the business in a detailed and robust manner based on agreed business assumptions in coordination with the business line management and Finance team. In conjunction with the business, prepare the AHNA OP using program planning (S&OP), workload assumptions and executed contract commitments to determine delivery schedules, unit cost and price planning along with revenue, margin and cash profiles. Steer and drumbeat the AHNA OP contributors through the convergence process regionally and centrally to deliver fully coordinated and aligned financial targets. Collaborate closely with the Offers & pricing organisation to ensure new contracts (commercial and military) are understood, captured and included within the relevant financial schedules from the point of execution. Establish and develop Estimate at Completion (EACs) introducing a robust review and update process. Evaluate Performance and Drive Improvement: 20% Prepare and communicate regular and standardized financial reports and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on the actual versus planned performance of the business lines, providing operational reasoning to support financial variances with proposed mitigation actions. Monitor, analyze and report monthly actual unit cost versus plan, including make and buy splits. Provide results to function controllers for feedback, commentary and implementation of mitigation strategies where appropriate. Provide regular periodic reporting and updates on contract and product performance to central and finance where required. Support the AHNA and Finance transformation plans through the identification of process and procedure improvements along with business case / project financial validation. Adopt and impart a cost conscious and continuous improvement mindset whilst maintaining the integrity and quality of AHNA financial information. Enforce Internal Controls and Corporate Governance: 10% Ensure adherence to the correct financial and cost accounting policies and procedures in all elements of the role perimeter. Offer direction and advice to the business to guarantee transactions are in line with AHNA internal & external accounting standards, treatments and policies. Work closely with the costing and offers department to understand compilation of bids & proposals, challenge and support when necessary and provide financial information when required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, project management or business administration. Equivalent experience or combination of education and experience may be substituted for degree.
• Ten + (10) years of experience in a finance position for any company or 10+ years of professional level work experience required, at least two (2) years of the professional level work experience must have been in a managerial level position with budget, planning, cash management, costing and/or Profit/Loss related tasks
• Microsoft/Google Office suite—specifically Excel and PowerPoint or the Google equivalents
• SAP
• Authorized to Work in the US
• Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings. Daily
• Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms. Daily
• Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications. Daily
• Equipment Operation: able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment. Daily
• Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs/5kgs. Daily
• Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs/5kgs. Daily
• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools. Occasionally
• Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer. Daily
• Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving. Occasionally
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor. Daily
• Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice. Frequently
• Walking: able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces. Occasionally
• PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.

Nice To Haves

• Five (5) years of experience in operational planning, budgeting / forecasting, performance management, risk & opportunity management and/or business controlling.
• Two (2) years of experience of business partnering, preferably as a finance business partner
• Two (2) years of experience with the coordination, consolidation and integration of financial data between a customer center and a company headquarters
• Knowledge of the common Airbus financial tools preferred
• Knowledge of the Airbus Helicopter’s business preferred

Responsibilities

• Act as a Financial Business Partner
• Support for Decision Making
• Plan and Support Target Setting
• Evaluate Performance and Drive Improvement
• Enforce Internal Controls and Corporate Governance

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes
• retirement savings plan
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
• Paid time off including personal time, holidays
• generous paid parental leave program
• Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability
• Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”)
• other supplemental benefit coverages

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level