Financial, Scheduler & Project Control

Every organization needs controller of some kind, and the European Space Agency (ESA) is no exception. With a 2019 budget of €5.72 billion, 22 member states, 8 ESA sites and dozens of missions (future and current) a variety of project controllers, financial controller and schedulers are needed to ensure that milestones are met on time and on budget.

Typical requirements in this domain include:

• Preparing, maintaining and reporting on the overall programmatic aspects (cost, finance, schedule, industrial return, risk, progress control as well as general project administration) of the project/missions;
• Perform schedule analysis through Critical Path Analysis, Trend Chart Analysis and simulations;
• Maintenance of related work/procurement plans and related execution and contract actions plans;
• Assisting in the preparation of long-term, medium term and in-year resource plans;
• Monitoring and controlling the implementation of the plans in line with resource targets, performing forecasting, identifying deviations and related recovery actions, producing related reports;
• Cost at Completion (CAC), financial planning and associated reporting activities;
• SAP (ESA-p), MS Project, Primavera, Excel;
• IPSAS.

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General requirements:

• Fluency in English. Knowledge of another member state language is an advantage;
• Master’s degree in Finance or relevant;
• 4 years of relevant professional experience in a relevant field;
• Eligible to work in the EU;
• EU Secret Security clearance is considered an advantage;
• Candidates without the required degree or years of experience are encouraged to send in their CV as well as these are not hard requirements.

About Sapienza Consulting

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