Financial Planning

Location: Singapore, Singapore

In Singapore, Thales has been a trusted partner since 1973, originally focused on aerospace activities in the Asia-Pacific region. With 2,000 employees across three local sites, we deliver cutting-edge solutions across aerospace (including air traffic management), defence and security, and digital identity and cybersecurity sectors. Together, we’re shaping the future by enabling customers to make pivotal decisions that safeguard communities and power progress.

**The Opportunity**:
**Responsibilities**:
a) Support AAIC financials, b) management reporting, c) financial report with variances analysis & build corrective action plan, d) financial forecast, predictability & risks and opportunities management e) assist regional BLs management in drivers to change/improve the future results.

Finance business partner & KPI Monitoring
- Support AAIC industrial financial results delivery and MYB budget execution
- Support and control timely best in class reporting to the Group, GBU or BLs
- To promotes cash culture with strong focus on inventories & CAPEX planning. Manage and report accurately through GBU Anaplan OCF tool
- Continuous improvement of monthly closing processes (timing, data integrity, eliminate redundant tasks)

Budgetary control
- Support in expenses through best-in-class budgetary control (e.g. CBN variances analysis) and reporting (process and tools such as Anaplan)
- Support CAPEX/OPEX /Inventory validation according to applicable DOA
- Participate continuous improvement for finance in GBUs structure costs reduction initiatives
- Conduct regular Balance Sheet / Cost Centers / CPP & CPR reviews

Industrial control and standard costing
- Support industrial performance and the APU analytical result account (hourly rates, industrial differences, stock differences).
- Contributing and analyze of industrial standard costs on monthly basis
- Monitor monthly industrial gaps, manufacturing and purchasing gaps
- Support the MYB budget, forecast and actual industrial activities
- Participate in continuous improvement of tools related to Finance
- Identify industrial risks and opportunities
- Perform ad hoc analysis
- Support in cost investigations of products related to your perimeter
- Verify consistency between workforce demand and industrial load level

Industrial Project Finance Support (New project setups)
- Support business case preparation, ROI analysis and CAPEX validation for new line setups and technology transfers.
- Support industrial, Supply Chain and Engineering team to track project budgets, monitor cost deviations and ensure alignment with financial targets and investment approvals.

Industrial business controller would support any financial topic related to Business Lines financial matters in coordination with BL Central & country finance, therefore list is not exhaustive herein

**Requirements**:

- Degree in Accounting
- 3 years of accounting/business control/FP&A experience
- Prior experience in financial and management reporting
- Prior experience in industrial/manufacturing control and standard costing
- Prior experience in ERP management systems (SAP preferred)
- Knowledge of finance, cost control, budgeting, and accounting principles including IFRS
- Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems
- Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections
- Financial Systems (i.e. SAP, Power BI, Power Query) experience preferred
- Professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to produce quality results within tight timeframes
- Ability to work independently with mínimal direction and to assume a lead role within specific areas of responsibility

At Thales, we’re committed to fostering a workplace where respect, trust, collaboration, and passion drive everything we do. Here, you’ll feel empowered to bring your best self, thrive in a supportive culture, and love the work you do. Join us, and be part of a team reimagining technology to create solutions that truly make a difference - for a safer, greener, and more inclusive world.