JOB DESCRIPTION

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Group Financial Control team, with a specific focus on the Rolls Royce reporting and consolidation system Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM). The role reports to the Head of Group Reporting, Head Office and is required to work closely with key stakeholders in IT, Global Business Services, finance and business teams across Rolls Royce.
The role is to lead the development of the Oracle HFM system, ensuring strict process control is maintained whilst ensuring the development of the system aligns to the increasing internal and external reporting requirements. You will work collaboratively with the IT team, Global Business Services and the Oracle Hyperion Planning – Value Based Modelling (OHP-VBM) team to deliver system updates.
A key aspect of the role is to ensure best practice controls and the smooth running of the consolidation system through robust programme management and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across the business.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

This is a leadership role and as such we expect the successful individual to be able to exhibit many of our Leadership Expectations, which are:

• One Enterprise Mindset, One Team;
• Lead across the ecosystem, setting and communicating clear direction and expectations
• Embrace one Rolls-Royce, one team mindset
• Believe in the extraordinary! Be passionate about the success of the business and hungry for success
• Encourage open and respectful debate and inclusion of diverse perspectives
• Adaptiveness & Resilience
• Adapt to change and pivot strategies to ensure timely and effective execution in a dynamic environment
• Increase resilience, build flexible and agile structure and processes
• Holistic Thinking, Simplification & Decisiveness
• Connect the dots and see the bigger picture
• Create fit for purpose solutions and reduce complexity
• Make fast and well informed decisions leveraging world class benchmarks where it matters most
• Execution & Business Impact
• Build high trust and mobilize teams through purpose, focus and strategic alignment
• Optimize performance and deliver consistent results
• Manage risks and take timely interventions
• Create a systemic rhythm in the organization to enable our strategic progress ambition
• Operational Effectiveness
• Prioritize dynamically (applying intensity, pace and rigour where it matters the most)
• Build proactive responsive capabilities
• Build Talent & Capabilities
• Apply high-performance focus across business and people, provide regular feedback and have zero tolerance for mediocrity
• Increase curiosity and learning agility, future proof capabilities by upskilling talent through hiring, reskilling and talent mobility

In addition for this role, we are looking for someone who has:

• A self-motivated individual with strong analytical skills, attention to detail and a track record of consistently delivering quality results to challenging timetables
• Deep understanding and proven experience of Oracle HFM and rule writing is essential.
• Excellent communication, leadership and influencing skills with an ability to create and agree workable solutions
• Have a good understanding of Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE), Data Relationship Manager (DRM) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM stack)
• Resilience, problem solving and good judgement – this role is often the first call for issues and queries
• Ability to quickly understand complex issues and summarise and articulate them in a simple and concise manner

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 which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
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Grade - Management Band B

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Responsible for ensuring process and functional controls for the HFM system are maintained to a high stand and are fit for purpose. Demonstrate adherence to controls to the Internal Controls team and to our external audit team
• Develop a detailed plan for system maintenance and improvements to ensure we are following best practice, challenge existing processes
• Develop and improve the HFM system to ensure it continues to meet both internal and external statutory reporting requirements
• Lead the successful delivery of the planned functional updates, ensuring all checks and validations are reviewed and approved within the set timeframes
• Guide and support the translation of business requirements into clearly defined and efficient application changes
• Responsible for creating, standardising and reviewing the HFM rules.
• Have a detailed understanding of metadata changes in Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• Directly manage the HFM Operations Manager, supervising their work and prioritising their continuing personal development
• Play an integral part of the Rolls Royce systems teams.

This is a leadership role and as such we expect the successful individual to be able to exhibit many of our Leadership Expectations, which are:

• One Enterprise Mindset, One Team;
• Lead across the ecosystem, setting and communicating clear direction and expectations
• Embrace one Rolls-Royce, one team mindset
• Believe in the extraordinary! Be passionate about the success of the business and hungry for success
• Encourage open and respectful debate and inclusion of diverse perspectives
• Adaptiveness & Resilience
• Adapt to change and pivot strategies to ensure timely and effective execution in a dynamic environment
• Increase resilience, build flexible and agile structure and processes
• Holistic Thinking, Simplification & Decisiveness
• Connect the dots and see the bigger picture
• Create fit for purpose solutions and reduce complexity
• Make fast and well informed decisions leveraging world class benchmarks where it matters most
• Execution & Business Impact
• Build high trust and mobilize teams through purpose, focus and strategic alignment
• Optimize performance and deliver consistent results
• Manage risks and take timely interventions
• Create a systemic rhythm in the organization to enable our strategic progress ambition
• Operational Effectiveness
• Prioritize dynamically (applying intensity, pace and rigour where it matters the most)
• Build proactive responsive capabilities
• Build Talent & Capabilities
• Apply high-performance focus across business and people, provide regular feedback and have zero tolerance for mediocrity
• Increase curiosity and learning agility, future proof capabilities by upskilling talent through hiring, reskilling and talent mobilit

In addition for this role, we are looking for someone who has:

• A self-motivated individual with strong analytical skills, attention to detail and a track record of consistently delivering quality results to challenging timetables
• Deep understanding and proven experience of Oracle HFM and rule writing is essential.
• Excellent communication, leadership and influencing skills with an ability to create and agree workable solutions
• Have a good understanding of Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition (FDMEE), Data Relationship Manager (DRM) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM stack)
• Resilience, problem solving and good judgement – this role is often the first call for issues and queries
• Ability to quickly understand complex issues and summarise and articulate them in a simple and concise manne