Business Manager

Responsibilities

• Ensure the consolidation of the financial aspects of the version contents and manage related alerts with the EDMs or PMs
• Assist in the vision and roadmap consolidation with the EDM and ensure workload and teams/squads inter- dependencies are well identified
• Ensure coherence between the teams, managed through work packages, and squads with planned backlog and workload, velocity, capacity
• Ensure capitalisation process is deployed and analyse results both to manage EAC or engage new quoting process for business support
• Manage workload associated plans or alerts (reinforcement or rearrangement of the squads) with the HoD and the EDMs
• Support the roadmap and vision by ensuring consistency with the workload of the teams and squads
• Deploy a robust process to support Financial EAC projection
• Analyse the current situation, propose a transition plan with short/mid/long term objectives
• Define metrics and routines to follow and monitor the progress of the financial activities
• Support the teams to reinforce our way of working
• Adjust our approach depending on the type of subcontract (full delegation, center of services, …).
• Anticipate issue and mitigation with EDMs

Main Outputs

• Financial consolidation and associated plans per Product Increment
• Workload consolidation and associated plans
• KPI on finance and workload
• Earn value deployment and consolidation

Success criteria

• Clear financial predictability
• Clear and reliable workload and capacity projection per PI Planning and at project termination
• Clear and reliable earn value management
• Updated Cost Model available all along the product journey

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Qualifications

• Relevant Degree from recognised institution or relevant work experience (10+ years)

Experience

• A track record of delivering successful software complex projects in contexts relevant to Thales
• Full engineering lifecycle management, including software engineering, specification engineering, qualification and deployment.
• Very good understanding and strong experience of Cost/financial management
• Experience on complex program with numerous stakeholders
• Comprehensive understanding of generic processes and techniques used to schedule project activities (for example; WBS, OBS, milestones, cost models, dependencies, EVM, workload).
• Working in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site and multi-country organisation

Knowledge and skills

• Good engineering knowledge including process, methods, tooling and environments
• Deep knowledge of traditional WP breakdown and Agile@Scale approach
• The ability to directly manage subcontractors in a complex program, ensuring best interest of the Company is always upheld