Financial Analyst

1.0 Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participate and support the monthly closing process for controlling topics.
• Contribute to building the budget, 5 year plan, weekly forecast and reporting.
• Maintain monthly analysis on G&A expenses and provide reporting to top management.
• Maintain monthly reconciliations of all inventory accounts and assist materials management team in analyzing inventory to ensure balance is accurate and properly assessed to avoid excess inventory.
• Oversee cycle counts performed by materials management.
• Maintain monthly reconciliations and analysis on manufacturing variances.
• Monthly analysis of internal cost per hour and assist operational departments in analyzing hourly rates to develop action plans to improve.
• Frequent interaction with other departments and the finance team at SHE France.
• Other tasks and projects as assigned.

Job Requirements

2.0 Required Competencies; Education / Knowledge / Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university.
• Two to five+ years related experience and/or training.
• Expert in Excel and functional in MS Office: Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with SAP and Power BI preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting processes and procedures.
• Strong financial analysis skills.
• Strong attention to detail, deadlines, accuracy, and data integrity.
• Interpersonal skills and experience working collaboratively with other departments and within teams.

3.0 Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Company Information

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.
Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Helicopter Engines is the world's leading manufacturer of helicopter engines, with more than 75,000 produced since being founded. It offers the widest range of helicopter turboshafts in the world and has more than 2,500 customers in 155 countries.