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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Cost Center Controller

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTubize, BelgiumNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A master's degree in management or accounting is required.
  • English proficiency is essential.
  • At least 3 to 5 years of successful experience in a management controller role is required.
  • A background in accounting is required.
  • Ability to make concrete proposals to support operational teams while maintaining independence is required.
  • Proficiency in Excel is required; familiarity with ERP systems is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and validate, in liaison with all managers, the financial data needed for budget management.
  • Prepare the cost budget across all Thales Belgium cost centers.
  • Validate alignment among production plans, workload, staffing, and structural costs.
  • Define cost-allocation rules, including allocation of primary costs to departments, as well as hourly rates and tariffs.
  • Work with Human Resources and Operations to define the budget for productive hours.
  • Define and project hourly rates and tariffs.
  • Provide ad hoc reports.
  • Prepare variance analyses against the budget.
  • Propose measures to help achieve objectives and monitor performance plans.
  • Serve as the process reference for proper revenue recognition for cost centers, primarily through time tracking.
  • Develop staffing and cost budgets for analytical centers, investment budgets, and forecast components twice yearly, in liaison with departments, services, and managers.
  • Calculate and validate financial components, including hourly rates, procurement coefficients, and tariffs.
  • Monitor project assignment levels in liaison with operational teams.
  • Support operational teams in controlling their incorporation variances.
  • Analyze differences between actuals and forecasts and propose corrective actions.
  • Calculate and validate incorporation variances monthly by entering the appropriate adjustments.
  • Assess risks and opportunities related to incorporation variances monthly.
  • Contribute to preparing consolidated closing information monthly.
  • Provide department heads and their management with the financial data needed to execute their budgets.
  • Contribute to developing the company-level cost matrix.
  • Participate in performance analyses and benchmarking based on the matrix, including key performance indicators and quartiles.
  • Analyze and control non-production costs for Sales, Marketing, and General Administration, including reconciling unit costs and profit-and-loss information.
  • Participate in cross-functional budget-control initiatives.
  • Prepare a monthly executive summary of cost-center status.
  • Ensure that the time-tracking and related control process functions properly and propose improvements.
  • Define and maintain the analytical structure in relation to the hierarchy, service organization, hours, machines, purchases, and tariffs.
  • Develop and monitor the budget-control process schedule, including the multi-year budget, monthly budget, forecasts, and predefined analysis thresholds.
  • Contribute to improving the organization's economic performance through rigorous control of structural costs and management of hourly-rate changes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Familiarity with ERP systems is advantageous.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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