VP Finance – Global Business Services

at  RollsRoyce

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

With this attractive opportunity, you will get a chance to be:

• An integral part of the GBS leadership team providing strategic direction and options to drive business performance.
• A business partner and ensure a good understanding of our financial numbers and issues exists at all levels of GBS management.
• Supporting the GBS teams to drive cost savings across all service lines through procurement price reduction and challenging demand increases, or via further optimisation choices.
• Providing cost transparency to the Divisions of GBS costs and working with the Divisional Leaders to identify further cost optimisation.
• Ensuring financial management of the Business to deliver financial commitments and ensuring budgets and multi-year forecasts are translated into business level plans; pro-actively work to ensure optimal performance and achievement of business targets and strategy.
• Managing reporting, forecasting and statutory requirements for GBS with the help of the regional Finance Managers.
• Acting as Director of R-R International and ensuring that its statutory requirements are enacted.
• Managing our outsourced provider of finance for small countries across the globe.
• Interpreting performance trends, supporting the generation of improvement plans and providing solutions to senior management on financial issues.
• Providing ad hoc reports, assessments or presentations as required.

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. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• A Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACMA, ACCA) with extensive PQE.
• Well organised and competent in understanding issues and getting to the heart of a problem fast.
• Ability to prioritise and work under minimal supervision.
• Able to work effectively globally, sensitive to language and cultural differences, develop relationships and influence people to drive outcomes.
• A personable, driven, effective communicator who can work collaboratively with senior stakeholders and SME’s .
• Demonstrated commercial acumen.
• A proactive and self-driven team player, resilient and results driven
• Good hands-on knowledge of key Rolls-Royce systems, including SAP, HFM, Coupa.
• Good MS Excel and PowerPoint skills