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If you require assistance or an accommodation to complete your application, please contact us at \nNotice: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal\n Notice: Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination (English)\n Aviso: Transparencia en el Pago No Discriminación (Spanish)\nJob Description:\nThe Financial Data Analyst will be responsible for business controlling activities across various Airbus Services perimeters in the Americas. Reporting directly to the Head of Services Finance (Americas), the incumbent will deliver key financial reporting, cost controlling, and advanced performance management analysis to operations to drive critical business decisions.\nIn alignment with our 2035 Services Moonshot and our transition to an optimized, digitally mature \"One Roof\" finance organization, this role is designed for a progressive, disruptive finance professional. The successful candidate will not only manage traditional controlling tasks but will actively champion the integration of Financial AI, automated business analytics, and generative AI use-case assessments to decouple regional business growth from manual administrative overhead.\nThis is a temporary/contract position based in Herndon, VA.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\n Financial Reporting & Analysis: 65%\nComprehensively plan the growth and development of the regional Services business within the Annual Operative Planning (AOP) cycle.\nPrepare and deliver regional financial reviews, performing deep-dive root-cause analyses on budget over/under-performance. Translate raw variance data into actionable risk-mitigation or opportunity-exploitation strategies.\nActively customize and deploy AI Use-Case Assessments for Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting to transition the department toward predictive, machine-learning-driven rolling forecasts.\nHelp champion the adoption of AI-powered data retrieval systems to eliminate manual data-gathering cycles, allowing the team and operational leaders to query P&L, headcount, and KPI metrics instantaneously.\nAssist the Head of Services Finance in preparing executive-level financial briefings, metrics, and dashboards for senior management (Airbus Americas and Global Services HQ).\nSupport the expansion of our Direct \"Revenue-to-Cash\" Free Cash Flow (FCF) methodology. Investigate opportunities to apply predictive cash-forecasting algorithms to regional collection pipelines to improve working capital predictability.\nStakeholder Management & Compliance: 25%\nInterfaces with European counterparts, Business Operations Analysts to provide/gather business/operational data and information for data analysis and reporting\nMaintains visibility of offsite supplier financial purchasing obligations, along with current view of outsourced workload requirements, ensuring accuracy of expenditures and forecasts\nFollows rules and guides best practices to ensure compliance\nDetailed knowledge of integrated AA processes including Procurement, Finance, HR etc. \n3. Business Development & Transformation: (20%)\nActively partner with the regional commercial and business development leadership teams across all of Services North America to model financial scenarios for new regional sales opportunities and addressable market share growth.\nProvide financial modeling support for new industrial footprint business cases, such as warehouse redesigns & regional distribution expansions.\nAssist in the financial steering of the \"Hub-to-Regionalization\" strategy, evaluating Gross Margin ROI to ensure regional supply chain changes yield maximum margin velocity.\nActively support the regional finance transformation roadmap by identifying manual reporting roadblocks and collaborating with the digital team to replace legacy Excel tasks with automated tools (e.g., Skywise-connected reports and AI-driven anomalies tracking).\nSupport Tariff controlling perimeters, tracking financial exposure to customs, and generating data-driven simulations for classification optimizations to protect regional commercial competitiveness.\nQualified Experience / Skills / Training: \nEducation:\nBachelor (or Master preferable) in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, or Computer Sciences\nExperience:\nAt least one (1) year of experience in Finance, Accounting, or Business/Data Analytics\nKnowledge, Skills, Demonstrated Capabilities:\nKnowledge of business intelligence software, G-Suite Platforms (i.e. Sheets), Microsoft Office (i.e., Excel) & Accounting/Finance concepts & software required\nBusiness Analytics software, SAP, Tableau Desktop Certification & Alteryx Core Certification preferred\nAble to work effectively under pressure and in a rapidly changing environment in order to meet deadlines\nFocused attention to detail and high standards for quality and accuracy in his/her work product\nProfessional, positive demeanor. Collegial orientation; relationship-builder who is solutions-oriented\nOrganized with strong follow through and execution\nAbility to prepare clear and precise reports \nAbility to present clear and business-oriented recommendations to site and project leadership \nEligibility: Authorized to Work in the US\nCommunication Skills (Spoken, Written, Influencing, Proficiency in Other Languages):\nExcellent written and verbal communication skill as well as presentation skills\nFluency in English required. Other languages (French, Spanish, German) are preferred. \nTechnical Systems Proficiency:\nSAP, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Sheets\nTravel Required:\n5 % Domestic and International\nEligibility:\nEligible for employment in the US\nThis 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.\nCompany:\nAirbus Americas, Inc.Employment Type:\nAgency / TemporaryExperience Level:\nEntry LevelRemote Type:\nFlexibleJob Family:\nFinancial Expertise ------\nJob Posting End Date: 10.16.2026------\nAirbus provides equal opportunities to all individuals seeking assignment with Airbus without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status or other legally protected status. In addition to federal law requirements, Airbus complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in every location in which the company has facilities. Airbus expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status or other legally protected status. This assignment description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.\nAirbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.\nAirbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. 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