Head of Finance Strategy and People Transformation F/M

Job Description:

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for a Head of Finance Strategy and People Transformation (f/m) to join our Finance Transformation department based in Toulouse, France.

Operating transversely across the Finance function, the Head of Finance Strategy & Innovation will partner with the Finance Management Board and extended leadership teams to shape the AI-powered future of Finance. Leading a dynamic department, you will orchestrate the digital and workforce transformation strategy, enabled through research- and benchmark-led innovation, change management, strategic communication, and community orchestration.

Your working environment:
Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death).
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

• Drive Executive Alignment: Facilitate strategic discussions with the Finance Management Board and extended leadership teams, infusing outside-in perspectives to steer the strategic evolution of Finance.
• Define Digital & Workforce Transformation Strategy: Oversee the strategy definition, synthesising inputs from Finance leadership, while collaborating with domain-specific Finance Transformation teams and the Digital organisation.
• Steer Organisational & Cultural Change: Set the change management framework for major Finance transformation projects and oversee transversal change initiatives.
• Drive Talent Readiness & Capability Building: Link with the Finance Academy to develop and implement competency and learning strategy in Finance. Steer Finance workforce upskilling initiatives (such as bootcamps, hackathons and innovation days) to build future-ready skills.
• Sponsor the Vision of an AI-Powered Finance Function: Oversee initiatives that integrate emerging capabilities into Finance roles and operating models.
• Lead the Strategy & Innovation Team: Direct, coach, and inspire a dynamic, multicultural department.

Your boarding pass:

• At least 10 years experience in Finance domain expertise, paired with a clear vision for the strategic evolution of Finance, encompassing digital, AI, and workforce transformation.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale transformation and change programmes within complex, global organisations, preferably complemented by a management consulting background.
• Proven ability to build, direct, and inspire high-performing, multicultural teams, fostering a spirit of innovation and pioneering new ways of working.
• Fluency in English at a negotiation level;
• Demonstrated success in partnering with executive leaders, influencing, building consensus, and navigating matrixed structures.
• Proven ability to navigate corporate ambiguity with ease, infusing a growth mindset, momentum, and strategic focus to deliver tangible impact.
• Ability to dynamically reprioritise team deliverables in response to shifting business needs, balancing high-paced delivery with empathetic leadership.
• Ability to drive cross-divisional collaboration, bringing a business-partnering, service-oriented mindset to internal stakeholder relationships.

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

AIRBUS SAS

Employment Type:

Permanent

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Classe Emploi (France): Classe H16

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Leadership <JF-FA-EM>

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.