Serco has made significant contributions at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, supporting a wide range of space missions and projects. Serco has provided essential engineering, technical, and management services, playing a key role in logistics and operational support for missions. Serco's expertise in spacecraft management, ground systems, and data processing has earned them recognition, including the 'Best in Domain' award from ESA. Their long-standing partnership with ESA reflects their commitment to excellence and innovation in the space sector.
One of the domains Serco is looking to grow is ‘Navigation’ and with this in mind, we are looking to hire a small team of project control, business control, and risk management specialists.
For the project control specialist, we are seeking a candidate who has expertise in project control, financial management, and data accuracy, as well as someone who is proficient in SAP.
Procurement Support
- Support coordination and update of all procurement activities in the related systems (including implementation of Purchase Order, Contracts, and Change requests), providing the overall oversight and proactive follow-up to clarifications, issues, and requests for information.
- Implement RFXs & Shopping Carts in ESA-p after verification of the proper information and documentation provided.
- Manage Project Related Low-Value Purchase Orders/Reimbursement Request/ Z-payments:
- Implement contracts in ESA-p based on the agreed Milestone Payment Plan (MPP) and Advance Payment Plan (APP) ensuring IPSAS accounting standard compliancy.
- Implement contracts in the Navigation financial planning tool.
- Implement approved accruals in the related systems in close coordination and approval with the Project Controllers
- Review and report the status of contract payment milestones.
- Collect and update the ESA-estimating dates for payment milestones in the related systems (NAV planning tool and SAP)
- Support contract close-out activities in the ESA corporate and NAV-related systems and handle the nominal operational and analytical processes required to close contracts.
- Provide reporting such as activity logs, statistics, and progress status on the procurement actions.
- Maintain process documentation, operating procedures, guidelines, and training materials for procurement actions.
- Provide inputs and recommendations for process optimisation for procurement support activities and tasks.
- Ensure accurate financial data across systems and generate tailored reports and dashboards.
- Provide audit support.
Planning And Controlling
- Verify that the status of the procurements, costs, fund commitments, and cash disbursement actual data in the ESA corporate financial system is properly/accurately reflected in the NAV financial planning and control database(s)
- Perform daily data maintenance updates and verification procedures, report deviations to the PMSO Office, and implement approved corrections.
- Provide cost, fund commitment, and cash disbursement reports at the required level of granularity.
- Support the implementation, update, and reporting of all CACs in the NAV planning and control database in line with the CAC Book Captains guidelines.
- Provide consolidated programme level data management support, analysis, tailored reports/dashboards, and inputs to management presentations.
- Support the multi-year planning exercise and Interim/End of Year/End of program financial closure exercise (e.g. data collection, updates, analysis, corrections, reporting
- Support the Quarterly Cost Report (for ESA Programmes) and Quarterly Implementation Report (For EC Programmes) exercises including identification and analysis of variances in the financial data and implementation of approved updates.
- Support Geo-Return management and controlling.
- Support the yearly NAV missions budget setting exercise and monitoring.
- Support data auditing and follow-up activities on NAV tools (e.g. IPCDB and SAP) & corporate systems.
- Support financial and management audit(s) preparation and follow-up activities.
- Support to reporting.
Candidate’s Profile
- University degree (minimum Bachelor) in Business Administration or similar.
- At least 4 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in financial planning and controlling and/or management.
- Experience as a proficient user of SAP and in particular ECC and SRM modules.
- High capacity to interact and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, from engineering, technical, and business domains.
- Ability to interface at appropriate levels with relevant actors within and outside of the Directorate.
- Proactive attitude to solving problems, identifying priority actions, and handling high workloads.
- Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team.
- Highly proficient in the use of modern activities and resource management support tools/databases of standard office automation support software packages including advanced usage of MS Office and in particular advanced use of Excel.
- Experience working in multinational project environments, ideally with ESA or similar organisations.
- Experience in the aerospace sector is an advantage but not essential.
- Must be a citizen of an ESA/EU member state.
What We Offer
- Flexible working policy (hybrid working).
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits plan.
- A range of wellness activities and employee assistance programs.
- Casual dress code.
- Investment in people.
- Bike scheme.
- Serco aims to become a net-zero business by 2030.
Relocation:
The Netherlands' central location in Europe makes it an ideal base for travel and business within the EU. Major cities are well-connected by road, rail, and air with Amsterdam Schiphol Airport one of Europe's busiest and most well-connected airports, facilitating easy international travel.
Serco offers relocation support for all EU passport holders who are planning to relocate to the Netherlands and work for Serco B.V.
DE&I
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Serco is based on a culture where every voice is heard, and every employee feels valued. Working together as one team, we can enhance the experience of our people and teams, improve the value of our solutions to better serve the missions of our customers, and make an impact in our world.
About Serco
Serco is a leading Space Services Provider with thousands of skilled resources that has supported over 50 space missions on behalf of more than 10 Space or Government agencies around the globe, including the likes of ESA, CNES, EUMETSAT, EUSPA, ASI and NASA. We offer space capabilities across the full space lifecycle from satellite testing to Launch services, LEOP to spacecraft operations, space surveillance to data management, and supporting downstream application development. With over 55 years history in the space sector Serco is well placed to contribute to National strategies across Europe and the globe We work within the heart of the space sector so understand the challenges our customers face. When it comes to recruitment we are experts in sourcing the very best talent within space engineering, earth observation, satellite communications and cyber security. We have placed hundreds of people from post graduates through to C-suite executives into space agencies, satellite operators, manufacturers, system integrators, consultancies, earth observation/remote sensing, launch providers and much more.
