Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.
Your role
Aviation Services, a business unit within Saab Aeronautics, delivers a wide range of services and integrated support solutions to customers in the defense and commercial market, for cost-effective support of systems and platforms throughout the life cycle. You will first and foremost be a part of our Business Area Finance organization.
We offer you a challenging and varied position in your role as Head of Contract and Project Control. Your key responsibilities will be proactively focusing on the performance, drive improvements and progress in various financial processes within our business and operations. This includes leading the team of Contract and Project controllers in planning, follow up, analyzing and reporting the financials of the contracts and projects.
You are also responsible for:
- Drive and develop the work with monthly reporting, forecasts and budgets.
- Develop working methods to secure appropriate ways of working regarding the financials within the business context
- Together with your team, be a support to Contract responsibles and Projectleaders in complex financial matters.
- Work proactively and contribute to a transparent and inclusive environment
- Leading a team of Contract and Project controllers in their day-to-day work
You will report to the BU Controller Aviation Services, and work in close cooperation with the BU Controller and other controllers in the Finance function. As Head of Contract and Project Control, you will also actively contribute to improvements and progress in various financial processes and systems. There will be possibilities to make your own mark on the role, together with the BU Controller.
Your profile
To be successful and thrive in this role it is important to have integrity, be able to motivate others and to have analytic and pedagogical ability to understand and explain financial conditions. You provide energy and continuously aims to create commitment together with other colleagues. You work in a systematic visionary manner towards set targets, and has a high ability to change when needed.
Requirements:
- You have a relevant bachelor or master degree within Business Economics
- A couple years of experience as Controller / Business Controller
- A business-oriented mindset with basic knowledge of project management
- A track record of driving successful improvement initiatives
- High level of communicational skills, verbally and written both in Swedish and English
Experience from a profit and loss environment is an advantage and knowledge in Agresso and Mercur are meritorious.
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
What you will be a part of
Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between.
Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 23,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world. Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.