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R&D Product Line Controller

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in RD or project management control
  • Knowledge of the automotive industry or equivalent
  • Ability to coordinate on-site controllers and ensure follow-up
  • Fluent in English

Requirements:

  • Participates in, understands and challenges monthly closing of PL RD costs and revenues; provides analysis of monthly results to PL management (variance vs budget, month N-1 on RD) at PL level
  • Consolidates the financial performance of PL RD in weekly Best Estimate reporting; consolidates monthly RD Forecast with the sites and ensures correct reporting of costs per TPL
  • Supports RD and Project managers with exact financial data; contributes to RD Budget and MTP processes (guidelines, recharges, standard templates).
  • Benchmarks and standardizes management control tools; conducts ad-hoc analyses and proposes solutions for disputes between sites, product lines and product groups; ensures deployment of standard tools from Group/Division within the product line

Job description

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Redefine the Driving Experience, Join Valeo!

As the world leader in driver assistance systems, Valeo reinvents life on board and driving experience. From connectivity and intuitive controls solutions to driving automation, our Brain Division is creating a new era of autonomous and enjoyable travel.

Inside the Brain Division, our Interior Experience Product Line focuses on reinventing the in-cabin experience. It includes technologies such as displays, Head-Up Displays (HDU), smart surfaces, and telematics, designed to create a connected, intuitive interior.

We are looking for a R&D PL Controller for our Interior Experience PL (13 sites).

📍The position can be based either in Créteil (Brain's headquarter and R&D site) or in Annemasse (R&D and production site).

Your Responsibilities:

  • Participates, understands and challenges monthly closing of PL R&D costs and revenues

  • Provides analysis of monthly results to PL management (explain variance vs. budget, month N-1 on R&D) on PL level

  • Consolidate the financial performance of PL R&D P&L in weekly Best estimate reporting

  • Consolidate and challenges monthly PL R&D Forecast with the sites

  • Challenges correct reporting of costs per TPL

  • Supports R&D and Project managers with exact financial data

  • Contribute to R&D Budget and MTP processes (guidelines, recharges, standard templates…)

  • Benchmarks and standardizes management control tools

  • Achieves specific ad-hoc analysis

  • Proposes solutions for the litigations between sites, product lines, product groups on R&D

  • Achieves on-site management control reviews

  • Ensure the deployment of standard tools from Group/Division within product line

About you:

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in R&D or project management control

  • Knowledge of the automotive industry or equivalent

  • Ability to coordinate on-site controllers and ensure follow-up

  • Fluent in English

Employee Benefits: 

  • Employee shareholding plan, Action Logement Services (financial support for housing)

  • Social and Economic Committee (CSE) : holidays, social and cultural activities

  • Ability to work from home (up to 2 days per week)

  • Créteil's site : Company restaurant

  • Annemasse site : Meal vouchers

Why Valeo?

  • To join a top tech company shaping tomorrow’s automotive industry

  • To explore national and international career mobility opportunities 

  • To support the development of greener, safer and smarter mobility

Valeo sees the diversity of its employees as a key asset across all of its businesses, in all its forms – including gender diversity, disability diversity, cultural diversity and intergenerational diversity.

Job:

Management Controller

Organization:

RO/PL Management Control

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Undefined term

Job Posting Date:

2026-04-02

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com

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