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Business Unit Controller
2013-12-13 15:28:38| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
For one of our main customers ESAETEC, we are currently looking for an Business Unit Controller, who will give support within ESAs Galileo Programme Navigation Related Activities. Tasks and Responsibilities The position covers support to the management, administration and control of the main activities of the Business Unit and to ESA Corporate level controlling activities. Support to the processes related to the main resources of the organizational entity, including planning, execution and followup of the activities and resources of the Business Unit. Support to the planning, preparation, execution and followup of activities and related procurement actions as relevant managed by the Business Unit and of associated progress in terms of output schedule resources. Assessment and monitoring of the status of the procurement actions using ESA Corporate and local IT Tools including activity progress, maintenance of payment plans, correctness of financial charging, invoicing and payment. Implementing all administrative actions related to procurement and contractual matters, including data entry in ESA Corporate e.g. SAP and local application as appropriate and monitoring of financial commitments and payment milestones, invoicing, etc. Maintaining up to date the related data, performing data analysis, identifying deviations w.r.t. planstargets and production of associated reports to the responsible management and to the concerned customers. Assisting in the definition, preparation, implementation and maintenance of management support tools to ensure efficient execution of the related tasks. Liaison with Contract, Budget and Payment Officers to ensure the coherence of the internal and external administrative data. Contribution to the definition of new and improvement of existing related processes and tools and production of related documents. Support to the risk management processes e.g. maintenance of risk register, monitoring of status of risk mitigationreduction actions for the Business Unit. Support to the inventory and asset management processes for the Business Unit, including coordination of the proper registration of inventory items and assets, valuation of assets, in accordance with applicable procedures and instructions and the use of required tools. Support to the maintenance of industrial return databases for the BU, periodic verification of the BU data against ESA system for consistency, monitoring and forecasting of industrial return values for the procurements of the BU with respect to agreed targets, etc. Experience and education Masters in Engineering or equivalent or MBA or equivalent University degree for equivalent qualification in Business Administration, with a least4years of relevant experience. Proficient in the English language and excellent communication skills, both written and spoken. Candidate should have a good level of autonomy and relevant professional maturity is required to carry out complex tasks with high level of responsibility. Candidate should have the ability to understand the whole picture from the small details and is deadline driven. Adequate level of experience in the field of business administration, internal controlling and budget management andor accounting. Familiarity with budgeting, accounting, procurements at ESA is an asset. Ability to establish positive and constructive working relationship with team members and other colleagues within and outside of the Business Unit, service orientation, and ability to interface with senior management. Good sense of organisation of work, rigor, accuracy and reliability in the execution of the assigned tasks. Ability to handle high volume of numerical data in an accurate manner, analyse them, and produce synthetic reports. Proactive attitude to solving problems, result orientation, initiative and autonomy in the execution of the assigned tasks, ability to identify priority actions and to handle high workload. Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team within the boundaries of assigned tasks and stringent schedule Highly proficient in the use of modern activities and resource management support toolsdatabases of standard office automation support software packages including in particular advance usage of Excel, SAP and in particular ECC and SRM module. Familiarity with ESA corporate applications e.g. esap is an asset. Past experience with ESA and good understanding of relevant processes, activities and ESA organizational context is an asset.
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