Program Financial Controller

Title: Program Financial Controller

Location: Houston, TX

Job Type: Full Time

• Onsite

Relocation Eligible: Yes

Company Description: Starlab Space LLC is a US-led transatlantic joint venture between Voyager Space, Airbus, and Mitsubishi Corporation that is designing, building, and will operate the Starlab commercial space station. Starlab will serve a global customer base of space agencies, researchers, and companies, ensuring a continued human presence in low-Earth orbit and a seamless transition of microgravity science and research from the International Space Station into the new commercial space station era.

Position Description:

A vacancy has opened within the Starlab Space Finance organization for the position of Program Financial Controller. The successful candidate will join the team in Houston and work in a transnational environment with activities done in several sites across US and Europe. This job requires a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth (and aware if any potential compliance risks).

Job holder will functionally be reporting to CFO organization and operationally part of the Program organization as a business partner.

Responsibilities:

• Be a business partner for the work package managers (challenge and support in terms of financial and operational performance and improvement)

• Support and contribution to the Project PMO / Chief Operating Officer

• Support and contribute to the Chief Procurement Officer (e.g. Costing of contract, costing sheets…

• Fulfill all project control requirements (e.g. cost control, reporting, geographical distribution, monthly review of project data ...)

• Create the estimate at completion (EAC), forecast, 1-year planning to 5 years (Operative Planning

• OP) i.e. challenge the EAC of all work-packages and be part of the planning of the OP/FC (forecast)/EAC

• Negotiate with the cost contributors to fulfill their targets

• Analyze the correlation/deviation between technical progress, actuals, and the forecast consolidation of project data

• Ensures timely, consistent, and meaningful reporting with a deviation analysis against the given financial targets / Finance KPIs, track changes and provide ideas for corrective measures

• Calculate different work orders, change requests and other proposals

• Interface to accounting, billing, purchasing department, labor time management

• Manage all relevant data for the project controlling (EAC database and actuals reporting) and provide profound analysis and data to enable decision making on management level and give visibility about performance vs targets - special analyses, presentations

• Potential be a part of the team which implement the IT tool (ERP when and where selected for implementation in future)

• Risks and Opportunities Management reporting: The jobholder supports the reporting of Risks and Opportunities for the WBS. Records the financial data resulting from mitigation plans and contributes to reaching the company's cost targets by liaising with the Risk manager.

• Moreover, you will support key change decisions in the project (business cases, proposal preparation, major modifications etc.). You will play a key role in improvement Controlling and in the preparation of Business

Requirements:

• Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Industrial engineer with a major in Business Administration or equivalent

• A least 10+ years of experience in activities which have allowed you to acquire sound skills and strong knowledge of Finance, SAP

• Financial data analytics, Strong financial knowledge, Reconciliation of Financial data

• Knowledge of Multi-Program Management (WBS)

• A feeling for numbers and excellent financial skills and the ability to persuade, influence and convince

• Desirable experience of working in a start-up and fast paced environment with proven record of successful stakeholder management in a government set up or to an institutional customer

• Able to anticipate, assess and mitigate program risks

• Experience in ERP migration would be a plus profound knowledge in MS Excel, MS Office etc. Helpful: VBA programming

Travel Required:

• 5-10% Domestic and International

Clearance:

• None. Active DoD security clearance preferred.

Decision Making, Complexity:

• Empowered to make decisions and be in charge of approvals within the determined scopes

• Strategic and critical thinking, understanding the organization's strengths and weaknesses

• Demonstration of sound and accurate judgment

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Starlab Space, LLC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran

The statements contained in this job description are intended to describe the general content and requirements for performance of this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities, and requirements. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within the framework of this job description at any time without prior notice.