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)
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
