Programme/Project Controller

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>HE Space is a successful international space company. For 40 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>As part of the Business Management &amp; Administration team, you will have the following responsibilities:</p><ul><li>Support to the planning, preparation, execution, and follow-up of projects/ programmes activities in terms of schedule, related procurement actions, costs including preparation of CaC as relevant, manpower including support, etc. including:<ul><li>Assisting in preparing, developing, and maintaining programme level plans;</li><li>Assisting in the definition and in maintaining related work/procurement plans and related execution and contract actions plans using local tools as applicable;</li><li>Monitoring of the implementation of the programmes and of activities, as appropriate, and preparation of related reports and provision of management information as required;</li><li>Evaluating the results and main achievements of the programme, elaborating related KPIs, and preparing periodic overview publications.</li></ul></li><li>In the field of resources (i.e., financial and manpower) for programme/project(s):<ul><li>Assisting in the preparation of long-term, medium term and in-year resource plans;</li><li>Monitoring and controlling the implementation of the plans in line with resource targets, performing forecasting, identifying deviations and related recovery actions, producing related reports;</li><li>Reviewing / checking of ESA internal expenditures such as re-charges, support services and purchases for consistency with Cost–at– Completion (CAC) of industrial contracts;</li><li>Checking commitments for consistency with budgets and ESA’s procedures and consumption of commitment ceiling and initiating related budgetary transfers as required.</li></ul></li><li>In the field of procurements and execution of contracts:<ul><li>Support to the preparation and follow-up of the Agency’s tender actions;</li><li>Support to the proposal evaluations as expert for the price and schedule verification and analysis;</li><li>Support to the preparation of the financial contract commitment and the data entry of the milestone payment plans in the Agency’s system(s);</li><li>Contributing to the elaboration, consolidation of related procurement workplans and detailed implementation plans (e.g., Contract Action Plan baseline) and related commitment consumption, cost, and disbursement profiles;</li><li>Ensuring that above plans are properly inserted in the appropriate management tools;</li><li>Following-up of the progress of the procurement actions and contracts and keeping track of status and maintaining the current actual and forecasting in the appropriate ESA tools;</li><li>Creating related objects in ESA-p, maintaining corresponding information in local applications as required and ensuring the correctness and coherence of related information;</li><li>Monitoring and controlling of timely implementation of actions related to procurement and contractual matters, including monitoring of financial commitments, payment milestones and invoicing;</li><li>Supporting industrial invoicing process and payment verification and control;</li><li>Supporting programme inventory and export control activities, maintain relevant inventory databases.</li></ul></li><li>In the field of programme industrial return:<ul><li>Initiation and coordination of the periodic updating of relevant Industrial Return data base to reflect the current commitments status and the industrial policy forecast for planned activities;</li><li>Verification of coherence with ESA corporate Industrial Return data;</li><li>Maintenance of list of specific compensation or improvement measures and follow-up the implementation;</li><li>Verification of coherence of proposed procurement actions with the planned industrial return policy targets of the programme/project, including the compensation measures.</li></ul></li><li>Support to programme/project level risk management;</li><li>Maintaining up to date the related data, performing data analysis, identifying deviations w.r.t. plans/targets and production of associated reports to the responsible management and to the concerned customers when relevant;</li><li>Operation of the associated management information tools and system databases;</li><li>Support to the responsible entity in the definition of new and improvement of existing processes and tools and production of related documents;</li><li>Support the execution of the directorate’s Risk Management process.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p>You will have the following qualifications and relevant experience:</p><ul><li>Master´s degree in Engineering or equivalent, or MBA or equivalent University degree from a recognized Institution of secondary studies, or equivalent qualification in Business Administration is mandatory;</li><