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
_\*_ _Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions. We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes._
Who We Are
Loft: Space Made Simple.
Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
_As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English._