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Lead External Funding Specialist
  • Bielsko-Biala
Lead External Funding Specialist
Bielsko-Biała, Bielsko-Biala, Silesian Voivodeship, Polska
Avio Aero - GE Aerospace Business
1. 12. 2025
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Lead External Funding Specialist

Miejsce pracy: Bielsko-Biała

Your responsibilities

  • In this role you’ll take ownership of financial and operational aspects of R&D projects co-financed by the EU, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and efficiency. Your key responsibilities will include:
  • Managing project operations and financial reporting: Monitoring projects’ financial progress and reporting in line with internal and external control rules, ensuring compliance with company policies and EU funding guidelines.
  • Driving project financial reviews and performance analysis: Organize operational and financial reviews throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with project teams. Analyze performance, identify risks, and implement corrective action plans to improve key project metrics.
  • Collaborating across teams: Work closely with internal teams (Finance, HR, Engineering) and external stakeholders (EU funding agencies, public administration, audit/control bodies) to ensure smooth project execution and compliance.
  • Problem-solving and decision-making: Use your technical expertise and analytical skills to address challenges, make informed decisions, and deliver impactful solutions.
  • Simplifying processes: Apply your expertise to streamline processes and drive operational excellence, leveraging lean principles to enhance efficiency.
  • Ensuring audit readiness: Maintain accurate documentation and ensure compliance with company policies, project rules, and external audit requirements.

Our requirements

  • We’re seeking a motivated and detail-oriented professional with:
  • Proven experience in finance, European Union funding, and project financial management.
  • Strong knowledge of project finance, financial monitoring and reporting, budgets, accounting rules, and EU funding eligibility requirements.
  • A bachelor’s degree minimum, from an accredited university or college.
  • Advanced skills in MS Excel.

Optional

  • Desired Characteristics:
  • Analytical and organizational skills: You excel at multitasking, problem-solving, and paying attention to accuracy and detail.
  • Proactive mindset: You take initiative, prioritize tasks effectively, and adapt to changing demands.
  • Strong communication skills: You’re confident in both written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex information clearly.
  • Relationship-building abilities: You’re a team player who can collaborate effectively across diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • Project management expertise: Experience in planning, executing, and managing projects, with a professional project management certification (e.g., Prince2, PMP) as a plus.

What we offer

  • Flexible work schedule and hybrid work model adjusted to your needs
  • Fascinating job in dynamically growing aerospace industry
  • Competitive salary, annual bonus, copyright costs tax reduction
  • Diverse career opportunities globally
  • Environment of continuous learning and improvement
  • Onboarding support to make your start easier, mentoring support through your career
  • Benefits fit to all lifestyles
  • Wide variety of employee initiatives

Benefits

  • sharing the costs of sports activities
  • private medical care
  • sharing the costs of foreign language classes
  • sharing the costs of professional training & courses
  • life insurance
  • remote work opportunities
  • flexible working time
  • integration events
  • parking space for employees
  • christmas gifts
  • employee referral program
  • charity initiatives
  • family picnics

Job Description Summary

At GE Aerospace we believe that the world works better when its moving. Together we are creating a future of aviation where human safety is of the greatest importance.

In our company we have been offering a flexible working model for many years now as to give our employees the possibility to adjust working hours to suit their individual needs. Our employees easily combine their professional and private responsibilities and have time to pursue their passions. No matter what stage of your career you are at, you can count on the support and mentorship of the best experts in the industry.

On GE Aerospace Warsaw campus, we design aircraft engines and develop advanced technologies such as cooling methods for engine components as well as create statistical models and software applications for aviation. We develop all solutions in diverse teams, in which the best experts eagerly share their knowledge. At GE Aerospace we work together to achieve success. What is more, a career at GE Aerospace is not only an opportunity to work in an international environment, but also a chance to gain experience while visiting laboratories, factories and repair shops around the world.

At GE Aerospace we give our employees space for comprehensive development by supporting a variety of employee initiatives and interest groups, including GE Womens Network, PRIDE Alliance, HealthAhead, Early Careers Network and GE Aerospace Volunteers. Our flexible working model is based on the concept of work-life balance, because at GE Aerospace we believe that people come first in our organization.

Are you passionate about driving financial excellence and operational efficiency? In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring accurate financial reporting and analysis for R&D projects co-financed by the EU, while championing internal financial controls, technical accounting compliance, and process simplification. You’ll leverage your expertise in project management, EU funding rules, and key business drivers to make a meaningful impact and contribute to the success of our team and organization.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Avio Aero - GE Aerospace Business

At GE Aerospace, we invent the future of flight, lift people up, and bring them home safely. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. At GE Aerospace, respect for people is core to our culture and commitment to FLIGHT DECK, our proprietary lean operating model. We attract, develop, and retain industry-leading talent from all backgrounds and cultivate communities where people are respected and empowered to reach their fullest potential. For the people of GE Aerospace, their work isnt just a job. Its their passion and purpose. We work and win as one team, accountable to each other and our customers, and we are always finding a better way to climb higher together. We were meant to fly.

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Twoje dane osobowe będą przetwarzane w oparciu o następujące podstawy prawne: (a) aby podjąć działania na Twoje żądanie przed zawarciem umowy (np. informacje o oczekiwanym wynagrodzeniu i dostępności do rozpoczęcia pracy); (b) w oparciu o nasz prawnie uzasadniony interes (np. imię, nazwisko, data urodzenia, dane kontaktowe, wykształcenie, kwalifikacje zawodowe, przebieg dotychczasowego zatrudnienia); c) w oparciu o Twoją zgodę, która wyrażona jest poprzez przeslanie dokumentów aplikacyjnych zawierających takie informacje jak np. wizerunek czy zainteresowania.
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Twoje dane osobowe będą przetwarzane przez okres maks. 1 roku od zakończenia publikacji ogłoszenia, chyba, że wyraziłeś odrębną zgodę na wykorzystanie Twoich danych osobowych w przyszłych rekrutacjach.
W celu realizacji praw lub w przypadku jakichkolwiek pytań związanych z przetwarzaniem Twoich danych osobowych skontaktuj się z nami pod adresem: joanna.drobik@avioaero.it.

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