Finance Assistant fixed term - Bournemouth

at  Signature Aviation

FINANCE ASSISTANT (FIXED TERM CONTRACT)

Signature TECHNICAir
Bournemouth Airport
40 hours per week Monday to Friday 08:30-17:00
We are actively seeking a skilled Finance professional to become an integral part of our dynamic team. In this exciting 12-month fixed-term contract, you will play a crucial role in facilitating a smooth transition to our new business system, contributing significantly to our overall success.

WHO WE ARE:

Signature TECHNICAir, is a global provider of aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul specializing in small to mid-size, turbine-powered business aircraft, with locations throughout the United States and Europe. As a division of Signature Aviation, Signature TECHNICAir EMEA operates a full service, CAA & EASA certified Part 145 Repair Station at Bournemouth airport, in conjunction with strategically positioned mobile service units based at Farnborough and Luton airports that serve a wide range of capabilities, across the UK and Europe.

As a Finance Assistant at Signature TechnicAir your primary focus is on minimising work in progress for the upcoming installation of a new core system. This includes tasks such as monitoring projects for billing readiness and reconciling key customer requirements and plays a key role in liaising with internal and external stakeholders to streamline processes. Additionally, the role is integral to month-end financial procedures.

Month End

• Create and process the monthly Work-In-Progress (WIP) reports.
• Generate comprehensive labour and material reports from the Aircraft Maintenance Programme and update working documents.
• Review open jobs, correlate with work in progress (WIP) schedule and check closed jobs align with those invoiced in period.

Sales Invoicing & Key Customer Maintenance Portal

• Generate comprehensive project reports encompassing all business units, thoroughly reviewing content validity for billed items and actively liaising with relevant parties to promptly address any discrepancies.
• Maintaining close collaboration with warranty to ensure comprehensive capture and recovery of warranty claims.
• Efficiently manage customer’s maintenance portal, capturing all new key customer inputs, while accurately recording relevant job numbers.
• Upon the completion of jobs, proactively chase and process work packs within contracted time limits to optimise the billing process.
• Identify discrepancies with parts margins and labour bookings and work with the relevant departments to resolve.
• Upload and reconciliation of documents onto key customer maintenance portal, actively engaging with customer to swiftly resolve any ongoing or outstanding queries.