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Our satellite constellation delivers high-resolution land surface temperature data, giving governments, defence organisations, commercial operators and global institutions the intelligence they need to monitor change, assess risk and make better-informed decisions.\nFrom national security and critical infrastructure to agriculture and climate resilience, constellr turns temperature into actionable intelligence for a changing world.\nYour Role\nAs Programme Finance Business Partner, you will provide financial planning, visibility and control across constellr’s major projects, investments and externally funded activities. You will work at the intersection of Finance and Programme Management so that project economics, funding obligations and cash impact are visible early enough to act on.\nThis role is critical as constellr scales its satellite constellation, manages increasing CapEx and project complexity, and prepares for the next stage of growth. You will translate engineering and programme plans into forecasts management can actually decide on. You will also be the finance owner for grant and project compliance, accountable for spend that has to withstand funder and auditor scrutiny.\nKey responsibilities\nOwn the financial plan for constellr’s capital projects (satellite builds, payload development and ground installations), from budget and CapEx forecast through cost-to-complete, capitalization and cash impact.\nRun grants and institutional contracts after award, with grant managers and public funding teams: eligible-cost tracing, hourly rate submissions, grant income, funding claims and reporting packages, plus the documentation trail that survives audit.\nBuild the financial case for grant and institutional proposals: cost and rate models, co-funding structure, and the cash and reporting commitments each submission creates.\nFeed project-level numbers into company-wide budgeting, forecasting and management reporting, and support the FP&A / Controlling team with analysis across departments.\nGive management early warning on cost overruns, schedule slippage and funding gaps, with a recommended course of action.\nOwn the project controlling framework: cost-allocation rules, planning models, reporting templates and the tooling behind them.\nJob requirements\nAbout you \nRequired: \n5+ years in project finance, controlling or FP&A, working hands-on with budgets, forecasts, actuals and commitments.\nExperience with grant or publicly funded programmes across the full cycle, from proposal budgeting and rate models through cost eligibility rules, funding claims, documentation and compliance.\nAbility to turn engineering and operational detail into financial insight non-finance stakeholders can act on.\nStrong Excel skills and confidence building and maintaining cost, rate and overhead models.\nFluent English and German.\nNice to Have: \nExperience in project-based, capital-intensive environments such as space, aerospace, defence, energy or infrastructure.\nDirect experience with EU, national or other space funding programmes, their reporting and compliance frameworks, and supporting grant or external audits.\nExperience with CapEx controlling, capitalization concepts or long-term project accounting.\nExperience with ERP, reporting or BI tools.\nWhy join constellr?\nHigh-Impact National Security Mission: Be part of an ambitious mission to launch the world’s first commercial thermal infrared constellation, delivering sovereign-grade \"behavioural\" intelligence from space to close critical blind spots for defence, intelligence, and maritime surveillance agencies.\nFast-Paced \"New Space\" Innovation: Work at the leading edge of a rapidly evolving defence sector. 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