Job Description

Finance Manager

Fulltime
London/Hybrid

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.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We'll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

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

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. 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 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 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 to liaise 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. 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.
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 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'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. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

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) is desirable.
7. Leasing industry experience and/or interest in aviation and the airline industry is desirable.

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.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Closing date: 11th December 2024

Job Category: Finance

Posting Date: 04 Dec 2024; 00:12

Posting End Date: 11 Dec 2024