Financial Director/HO Finance Airbus Helicopters Polska (AHP)

Job Description:

Position Summary: 

The Head of Finance will provide financial leadership for Airbus Helicopters Polska as a member of the leadership team, directly partnering with the Managing Directors to execute on the company's operational objectives. He/she takes the accountability for the financial health of the Company, preferably as a Managing Board member. 

He/she establishes annual performance targets through the Operative Planning process and delivers accurate forecasting as well as robust financial reporting and analysis through ownership of business-critical KPIs (cash flow, cost base, G&A, etc.). In addition, he/she provides direct support to investment planning for growth strategies, including, but not limited to, M&A projects and capital expenditures. Ensuring a strong link to the Airbus organization, he/she tightly aligns financial processes to those of Airbus Divisions (“Airbus”), making them evolve at the same pace as the company. He/She has to create and maintain the management tools giving a perfect vision of performance.

He/she is responsible for all accounting and treasury activities of the company, ensuring that internal financial control standards are upheld whilst promoting a strong culture of risk anticipation and finance compliance. 

Finally, he/she shall manage, train and develop a team of experienced finance professionals (5 to 10 people) and act in close coordination with the Divisional/Engineering HO Finance and Regional HoFs (Helicopters and Group).

Primary Responsibilities:

Business Controlling: 

Comprehensively plan the development of Legal Entity via the Annual Operative Planning (AOP) process, ensuring alignment with stakeholders on key assumptions related to Order Intake, Revenue, Profitability, Capital Investments and FCF

Establish a robust mechanism for quarterly forecasting of financial performance against AOP targets, to capture all risks and opportunities in an integrated fashion to update targets on year-end performance

Provide detailed analysis of actual financial results on a monthly basis versus Forecast and AOP targets, performing root-cause analysis and synthesizing this analysis into actionable guidance back to KPI owners for mitigation or exploitation of risks and opportunities

Partner with Airbus Controlling, Accounting and Financial Systems departments to ensure that a robust cost accounting model is in place within enterprise financial systems to ensure a high fidelity of financial information is captured to support contract compliance, accounting accuracy and performance management

Effectively liaise with Division controlling functions and establish trust relationship with Central finance stakeholders 

Closely monitor and evaluate the financing and cash needs of the business

Support Operations in monitoring the profitability of the business, alert on early deviations and propose corrective actions

Transactional Accounting, Tax & Operational Treasury: 

Deliver Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Travel & Expense and General Accounting operations, ensuring standard operating procedures (SOPs) are followed and internal controls are applied in accordance with Airbus accounting standards and audit expectations

Ensures timely, accurate and complete supplier payments are made in strict adherence to payment due dates and that outstanding customer debt is collected according to contract terms in order to drive optimal working capital of the company with a focus on process improvement to address the root cause of underperformance

Provide to the Airbus Operational Treasury Department the cash reporting in the agreed content and frequency

Manages independently all aspects of business activities operational treasury activities, ensuring accurate allocation of inbound and outbound bank movements and robust reporting and forecasting in full compliance with the Airbus Treasury Golden Rules

Ensure that the entity is compliant to all Tax regulations, that the Airbus Tax Strategy is applied and that tax specialists, when nominated, have a reporting line to Airbus Tax & Customs and to Him/Her

Investment Planning & New Business Support: 

Support the elaboration of stand-alone business cases for incremental investments into new product capabilities modeling both the magnitude and phasing of non-recurring investments and identifying