Job Description

We are looking to recruit a candidate who can take ownership of the overall development of the BPC/SAC tool such that it can be used as the overall planning and forecasting tool across the Group. This will involve

• Harmonizing and simplifying the way in which company plans both its functional cost base and its contract trading data
• seamlessly integrating and automating BPC with all the forward looking financial planning and forecasting data that is held with the SAP S4/HANA core modules
• integrating all financial information coming from the Cost Base, Project, Treasury, Manufacturing, Commercial & Procurement teams in order to generate coherent, harmonized financial plans and forecasts at both an MBDA Operating Company level and at a consolidated Group level

What's in it for you?

• The opportunity to make a difference, to implement a world class system into an exciting, dynamic business
• Support and contribute in the implementation of wider finance systems evolutions
• Stimulating and challenging environment involving working with colleagues across all finance disciplines and the wider business

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified Accountant
• Significant experience of working with SAP S4/HANA, SAP BPC and SAP Analytics Cloud
• Either within a financial systems role or as a user of SAP
• Experience of a SAP R3 to SAP S4/HANA system migration
• Experience of SAP BPC system design and deployment
• Exposure to working in a high value, low volume, long-term contracting environment
• ideally including both design/development and manufacturing phases of the contract life cycle
• Exposure to functional cost controlling at a directorate/operating entity level
• Cost base optimization, hourly rates, under and over absorption
• Previously experience of a multi-national, matrix based organization would benefit
• Fluency in French, Italian and/or German would be desirable