Finance System Specialist (d/f/m) - SAP Planning & Reporting (m/w/d)

Job Description:
In order to manage current and future projects, Airbus Helicopters is looking for you to join the team in Donauwörth as soon as possible as our new
Finance System Specialist (d/f/m) - SAP Planning & Reporting.
This role supports Finance processes & system execution as well as transformation journey at Airbus Helicopters (AH). You will contribute to projects focused on simplification, harmonization, standardization and innovation. As a key member of the Finance Transformation team, you will help maintain digital assets, implement new technologies, and promote new ways of working with end-users.
Located at the AH Donauwörth site, you will play a crucial role in animating the German Finance community on digital and transformation topics. Your mission involves providing new digital capabilities and collaborating closely with IT and business teams to deliver optimized solutions for data analysis, performance dashboards, and simulations.
Your location
At our Donauwörth site, located on the banks of the river Danube, we develop helicopters from the initial idea to the airworthy product. Watch them take off and touch down on our own on-site test airfield.
Your benefits

• Exciting tasks on unique products and services
  
• A very good working atmosphere with colleagues who are enthusiastic about our products
  
• Attractive salary including holiday pay, Christmas bonus and profit sharing
  
• 30 days holidays and extra days-off for special occasions
  
• Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects
  
• Special benefits: employer-funded pension, employee stock options, discounted car leasing, special conditions for insurances, public transport subsidy, discounts at local businesses, Job-bicycle, EGYM-Wellpass
  
• On-site-facilities: medical officer for check-ups and other health-related services, canteen, café, kiosk and self-service market
  
• Good connection to public transportation
  
• Compatibility of family and career (job sharing, part-time models, flexible working hours, individual time off)
  
• Working in a diverse environment, with more than 140 nationalities, where every voice is heard
  

Your tasks and responsibilities
To support Business Analysis:

• Business Advisory & Innovation: To develop and promote digital excellence and culture of innovation
  
• Requirements management : To gather, analyze and document business requirements. This involves conducting workshops, interviews, and surveys with finance professionals to understand their current processes, pain points, and desired future state.
  
• Process Optimization: To identify opportunities to streamline financial processes, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs. Often dealing with SAP S4H, SAP MDG, Celonis and RPA implementation
  
• Solution Benchmark & Design: To work closely with IT and other business stakeholders to evaluate potential solutions, assess their feasibility, and ensure alignment with the business's strategic goals. You create detailed functional specifications and use cases to guide development.
  
• Data crunching & Analysis: To analyze financial data to uncover trends and patterns, and define the data and reporting needs for new systems. This includes ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and compliance with regulations. Dealing with technical solutions such as Palentir, SAP SAC, Sportfire, BW4H.
  
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT): To define and execute UAT using JIRA ensuring all business requirements are met.
  
• Change management activities: To accompany business teams with digital culture, training, live support, participation to business team meetings.
  

To lead project & animate digital community:

• Portfolio management: To review project request, prepare one pager support prioritization and deliver Business Case
  
• Project planning & execution: To develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation. You oversee the project from initiation to completion, ensuring all milestones are met.
  
• Stakeholder Management: To be the primary point of contact for all stakeholders, from senior management to end-users. You manage expectations, communicate progress, and resolve conflicts to maintain alignment and support.
  
• Risk and Issue Management: To proactively identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies. You also track and resolve issues as they arise, preventing them from derailing the project.
  
• Project Leadership and Coordination: To lead and motivate a cross-functional team, which can include business analysts, developers, quality assurance testers, and finance subject matter experts. You coordinate, give meaning to tasks and ensure effective collaboration in an Agile scrum methodology.
  
• Change Management: To work closely with the business to manage the organizational change that comes with new systems and processes, ensuring user adoption through effective communication, training, and support.
  

Desired skills and qualifications

• University Degree
  
• Several years of professional experience in in Digital and SAP landscape
  
• Experienced in leading large scale projects in Reporting, Advance analytics, Planning/EPM implementations and other related Finance, Supply Chain or Manufacturing systems/digital solutions (Reporting & Planning, applied AI, data-hub, etc.)
  
• Knowledge about Finance (Accounting, Controlling, Treasury, Tax), Compliance and Audit Business Processes
  
• Experience in leading digital international project teams, managing project-portfolios, running multiple initiatives in parallel
  
• Qualification 5: Languages
  
• Language skills: English Business fluent, German/French is a plus
  

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customized development solutions.
Take your career to a new level and apply now online with your relevant documents (CV, short cover letter and certification for highest degree)! If it is possible please upload all you documents in English.
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.
Company:
AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional
Job Family:
Financial Expertise
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