Finance Manager

at  RollsRoyce

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles and for this role in particular we are looking for someone who is/has:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CA) with relevant post-qualification experience in industry/commerce.
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge and comfortable in dealing in a multi GAAP environment and experience in preparing financial statements including consolidation. US GAAP knowledge will be beneficial.
• Excellent Excel, Powerpoint and other MS Office skills. Demonstrable excellent financial modelling skills will be a plus.
• Excellent written skills and able to distil accurately the “story behind the numbers”.
• Excellent teamworking, communication skills, commercially astute, can-do attitude and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of Sun Systems, Hyperion, Salesforce, and accounts production software (e.g. Thomson Reuters AP) a plus.
• Leasing industry experience and/or interest in aviation and the airline industry also a plus.

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We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
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WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

In this role you will jointly manage and improve month-end close process, driving improvement and automation of management accounts production. You will be responsible for the timely production of monthly reconciliations and monthly variance analysis feeding into monthly management accounts and reporting. You will also help prepare/consolidate budgets and forecasts in accordance with the JV partners’ timetables. You will also;

• Financial/Statutory Reporting – Jointly be day-to-day point of contact for the auditors, dealing with audit queries, and be responsible for ensuring audited financial statements are prepared and signed off within the agreed deadlines.
• Business Partnering – Be an effective business partner to the wider business e.g. preparing financial assessments of customers to support Marketing Directors’ business cases, advising them of accounting treatments and implications of proposed business transactions or to liaise with tax advisors on tax implications.
• Continuous improvement – A key aspect of this role will be to continually identify areas for improvement and to be proactive in implementing such changes. As well as further developing our risk, control and governance frameworks, you will drive efficiencies in the production and structure of our management reporting and play a key part in improving their design and structure.
• Ad hoc projects – Support in various aspects of ad hoc and transactional projects such as providing technical accounting reports or writing business cases, covering diverse issues, for example, treasury/refinancing issues, set up of new entities, new leasing structures.
• Tax – While some parts of Tax Compliance are outsourced, you will be involved preparing monthly VAT returns and supporting tax advisors with annual corporate tax compliance process.
• AP/AR – Support the Operations teams to ensure monthly billings are raised and creditors paid in a timely fashion.

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles and for this role in particular we are looking for someone who is/has:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CA) with relevant post-qualification experience in industry/commerce.
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge and comfortable in dealing in a multi GAAP environment and experience in preparing financial statements including consolidation. US GAAP knowledge will be beneficial.
• Excellent Excel, Powerpoint and other MS Office skills. Demonstrable excellent financial modelling skills will be a plus.
• Excellent written skills and able to distil accurately the “story behind the numbers”.
• Excellent teamworking, communication skills, commercially astute, can-do attitude and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of Sun Systems, Hyperion, Salesforce, and accounts production software (e.g. Thomson Reuters AP) a plus.
• Leasing industry experience and/or interest in aviation and the airline industry also a plus