Contract controller

Your Role

As a contract controller within Aeronautics and Business Unit Gripen Design you will be given the opportunity to play an important role in the work with our contracts. You will monitor and control financial parts of the contracts such as follow-up and analyze, prepare budgets and forecasts, initiate actions to improve financial performance to reach targets. This also includes creating an understanding and acceptance of the financial control, financial processes and the purpose of these.

You will be a member of the Finance Team in the Business Unit Gripen Design and report to responsible managers and responsible of contracts within the Business Unit. You will also be a member of Aeronautics Finance department and report to your line manager within Finance.

In the role as controller you will work closely with the responsible of contracts to understand how changed planning, risks and opportunities, commercial and technical issues affects the financial development. Furthermore, you should be well acquainted with customer agreements, contracts and orders, and together with the Contract Manager and Commercial Manager participate in the preparation of new tenders.

An important part of the tasks is to participate in the work with the quarterly reporting to the Swedish customer, being responsible for some parts of the contract. The role also includes participating in different audits and reviews.

You will work in close corporation with other controllers in the Finance function, actively participate and contribute to improvements and progress in processes, systems and control within the finance area.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for a Controller with high communication skills who enjoys cooperating with people from different parts of the organization. To be successful in this position it is important to be proactive, independent and to have an analytic and pedagogical ability to understand and explain economic causation. You work in a systematic, visionary manner towards set targets and your ability to change when needed is high.

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 part of

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 18,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer, more sustainable and more equitable world.

Saab's business area Aeronautics designs, develops and produces some of the worlds most advanced military aircraft systems and always strive to be in the forefront of technology. This is shown in our product portfolio with Gripen, the smart fighter, and the advanced trainer T-7 as the main pillars.

Aeronautics main site is located in Linköping, Sweden. There is an installed customer base globally and we are constantly looking for new business opportunities in new markets. With a sales oriented organization and a growing interest in our products the tempo is always high. The need for a rapid and well-structured communication is constant for all parts of our business.

The Business Unit Gripen Design develops and delivers Gripen E to Sweden and Gripen E and F to Brazil.

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Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. Observe that you can send us your application in either Swedish or English.

Last application day: 2022-04-18

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