Finance Manager

Job Description

Finance Manager

London - Hybrid (3 days on site per week)

Full time

Why Rolls-Royce?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Manager to join Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance Limited (RRPF), a joint venture company between Rolls-Royce PLC and GATX Corporation comprising of 19 joint venture entities in the UK, 18 entities in the US, 2 in Malaysia, 1 in China, and 1 in India.

RRPF is a jet engine leasing company with the largest global portfolio of Rolls-Royce aero engines, providing medium and long-term spare engine leasing and bespoke financial solutions to airlines, aircraft lessors, and OEMs. We support over 50 customers worldwide with a portfolio of over 500 jet engines.

The Finance team manages the business planning, accounting, reporting, and tax for all the entities. It is also responsible for the communication of financial performance to its shareholders.

Joining RRPF, you will be part of a dynamic and fast-moving finance team, within a very agile business. Your primary objectives will be to manage and improve financial and management reporting, ensure all compliance obligations are met, and be effective and trusted business partners to the wider business team. You will work closely with other members of the Finance Team, the CFO, and wider business stakeholders, reporting to the Director of Treasury and Financial Planning and Analysis.

We'll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance, and employee discounts.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. As a minimum, we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

In this role, you will jointly manage and improve the 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:

1. 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.
2. 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 liaising with tax advisors on tax implications.
3. Continuous Improvement: A key aspect of this role will be to continually identify areas for improvement and to be proactive in implementing such changes. You will drive efficiencies in the production and structure of our management reporting and play a key part in improving their design and structure.
4. 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.
5. Tax: While some parts of Tax Compliance are outsourced, you will be involved in preparing monthly VAT returns and supporting tax advisors with the annual corporate tax compliance process.
6. AP/AR: Support the Operations teams to ensure monthly billings are raised and creditors paid in a timely fashion.

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 fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. For this role in particular, we are looking for someone who is/has:

1. Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CA) with relevant post-qualification experience in industry/commerce.
2. 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.
3. Excellent Excel, PowerPoint, and other MS Office skills. Demonstrable excellent financial modelling skills will be a plus.
4. Excellent written skills and able to distil accurately the 'story behind the numbers.'
5. Excellent teamworking, communication skills, commercially astute, can-do attitude and attention to detail.
6. Knowledge of Sun Systems, Hyperion, Salesforce, and accounts production software (e.g., Thomson Reuters AP) a plus.
7. Leasing industry experience and/or interest in aviation and the airline industry also a plus.

Join us & Make an impact

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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

Job Category: Finance

Posting Date: 06 Sept 2024; 00:09

Posting End Date: 22 Sept 2024