FP&A Analyst

Job description

**Wanna join the adventure?** As Loft Orbital continues to grow and expand its program portfolio, our French Finance team is looking for an **FP&A Analyst** to join us in Toulouse. Reporting to the **Senior FP&A Manager, France**, you will play a key role in monitoring and forecasting the financial performance of our programs and operating expenses. You will work closely with Program Managers, Department Heads, Accounting, HR and our US FP&A team, providing financial insights and decision support across the business. This is a highly cross-functional role combining program controlling, forecasting, budgeting and business partnering in a fast-paced, international environment. ### About this role: Program FP&A - Monitor the financial performance of several programs across our portfolio, including program P&Ls, material and launch hardware costs, supplier costs and cash flows. - Support monthly and annual closings, ensuring COGS are allocated to the correct programs and cost categories and coordinating any required reclassifications with Accounting. - Ensure the reliability and consistency of program revenue, COGS and cash-in/cash-out forecasts, with a focus on reducing EAC (Estimate at Completion) variances. - Lead EAC update campaigns with Program Managers and maintain clear documentation and traceability of underlying assumptions. - Ensure consistent EAC reference baselines across monthly reporting, forecasts and the Annual Operating Plan (AOP). - Identify, analyze and explain variances against initial program budgets, AOP and current-year forecasts. - Maintain Risks & Opportunities (R&O) scenarios for each program, quantifying their potential financial impact and ensuring consistency across forecasting and reporting exercises. - Lead financial program reviews with Program Managers, presenting revenue, COGS, cash flow, forecasts and R&O scenarios and incorporating review outcomes into forecasts. - Provide ad-hoc financial analysis and decision support, including margin analysis and what-if scenarios. - Contribute to the preparation of the FY+1 budget for programs. New programs & opportunities - Set up financial P&Ls for new programs. - Support the bid phase by reviewing cost estimates, margin assumptions and cash profiles for new opportunities. - Work with Accounting to select the appropriate revenue recognition model based on Loft's internal guidelines and best practices. - Build the initial program P&L using the approved EAC, customer pricing and revenue recognition model, establishing the financial baseline for future budgeting and reporting. Opex FP&A - Lead Opex reviews with Department Heads, presenting actuals and forecasts, analyzing variances against plan and implementing resulting adjustments and reforecasts. - Monitor headcount and labor costs against plan in coordination with HR. - Contribute to the preparation of the FY+1 Opex budget, including headcount planning. Business partnering & continuous improvement - Build strong, trusted relationships with Program Managers, Department Heads, HR and Accounting, reinforcing Finance's role as a key business partner. - Work closely with Accounting to maintain an integrated day-to-day operating model between FP&A and Accounting. - Collaborate with the US FP&A team to ensure consistent methodologies and timely consolidated reporting. Occasional calls during US working hours may be required. - Help optimize, automate and digitalize financial management tools and processes across Programs and Opex, including increasing the use of AI. - Contribute to ad-hoc financial projects and analyses requested by management. ### Must Haves: - 3–5 years in FP&A, management control (contrôle de gestion), financial audit, or related work. - Solid program/project controlling knowledge, including EAC, revenue recognition over time, and R&O management. - Strong accounting fundamentals: P&L, accruals, and cut-off. - Fluent French and English, written and spoken; English is Loft’s working language. - Advanced Excel: financial modeling, complex formulas, and pivot tables. - Strong analytical skills, rigor, and attention to detail. - Strong communication and ability to present financials clearly to non-finance stakeholders. - Proactive, autonomous, collaborative, and able to deliver under tight deadlines in a fast-paced scale-up. ### Nice to Haves: - Program/project controlling experience in an industrial or project-based environment. - Aerospace or space industry experience. - BI/reporting-tool experience. - ERP experience, with NetSuite preferred. - Strong appetite for using AI in Finance; hands-on Claude experience is a plus. - Experience improving, automating, or digitalizing financial management processes and tools. ### Some of Our Awesome Benefits: - Equity, we want you to have an active role in our success - Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations & RTT ) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best - Health and life insurance, we care about your health - Lunch Vouchers, because let’s be honest, we love food! (we even have a slack channel about it [#loft-gourmand](https://loftorbital.slack.com/archives/C02G64537DF)) - Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences - Company and team off-sites and many other events to work & celebrate together - Relocation assistance to Toulouse when applicable