Project Controller

Your Role

As a project controller within Aeronautics and Business Unit Gripen E/F you will be given the opportunity to play an important role in the work with our projects & departmens. You will monitor and control financial parts of the project and work close together with the department responsibles. This 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 E/F and report to responsible managers and contract responsibles 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 a Project Controller you will

* Monitor and control financial aspects of the project such as follow-up and analyze, prepare budgets and forecasts.
* Be a co-pilot to the responsible manager in financial matters
* Be active and highlight issues and propose actions
* Analyze actuals and forecasts and initiate actions to improve financial performance to close gaps and reach targets
* Work in close corporation with other controllers in the Finance function and actively participate and contribute to improvements and progress in processes, systems and control within the finance area.

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.

Your skills and experience

We are looking for a Controller with communication skills who enjoys to cooperate 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.

You will be a part of

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.

The task for Business unit Gripen E/F is to ensure development, production, testing, delivery and operation of the complete Gripen E weapon system to Sweden, Gripen E and F to Brazil, as well as to new customers (future export customers). The assignment includes responsibility for delivering in accordance with current contracts, as well as coordination both within Saab, with subcontractors and partners, as well as with customers.

If you are interested in what benefits you can take part of as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about them here

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.

Last application day 2022-02-28

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