Cost Controller

£29.00 per hour umbrella / £21.68 per hour PAYE; 35 hours a week; based in Broughton; until 31/12/2026

Key Responsibilities

• Plan & challenge: Understand the business operational environment (strategy, governance, challenges, constraints).
• Plan & challenge: Lead the preparation of the financial planning, prepare accurate forecasts, provide guidance in line with the overall company financial situation, and challenge business requests.
• Plan & challenge: Set & maintain multi-years financial targets.
• Plan & challenge: Develop and run financial models, simulations, scenarios, business cases (on projects, M&A, call for tenders) to support decision making and provide a comprehensive view on the financial implications of business decisions.
• Plan & challenge: Anticipate financial risks & opportunities and advise on mitigation strategies.
• Analyse & advise: Produce accurate financial reporting, at the appropriate level of granularity.
• Analyse & advise: Assess the actual financial performance, analyse deviations and advise on corrective actions.
• Analyse & advise: Analyse cost base, revenues, unit costs (Airframe / Engine), R&D.
• Analyse & advise: Identify actionable drivers for optimization and competitiveness initiatives, monitor materialization of savings.
• Analyse & advise: Anticipate financial risks and advise on mitigation strategies.
• Analyse & advise: Anticipate financial opportunities.
• Support execution & ensure data quality: Compute hourly rate, support on resource review & headcount targets definition, prepare charge‑back & cost reallocation models.
• Support execution & ensure data quality: Approve shopping carts, audit POs below approval thresholds (sampling approach), review commitments & accruals. Trigger costs rebooking & costs transfer when needed.

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