Finance Analyst

Job Description

Finance Analyst  

Full time /Hybrid (3 days on site per week)

Washington, Tyne & Wear

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Analyst to join our Civil Aerospace Operations team based in Washington. This role will be known internally as a Senior Accounting Technician.

The analyst team supports a variety of areas within Civil Operations including the Rolls-Royce domestic manufacturing businesses which are located throughout the UK, the global Logistics business, and the Purchasing teams. This role will manage some of our recharge processes within Logistics and Operations to ensure that costs are correctly allocated around the business, and support our functional Operations teams.

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 be responsible for monthly actuals reporting including journal preparation, variance analysis, and preparing business review packs for the HQ functions.

• Attendance at functional meetings to help educate the teams on cost.
• Preparing and populating budget/forecasting models using key inputs from various business contacts, challenging inputs, using HFM, and preparing business review packs with meaningful business commentaries for review with the HQ functional teams.
• Key interface with some of our Logistics providers, ensuring that invoices and backing data are sent within a timely manner for month end reporting.
• Managing and completing the recharge process for our Logistics spend, ensuring that costs are correctly allocated around the businesses, any errors are followed up and corrected, and reconciliations completed.
• Implementation of process improvements and automation, writing and maintaining how to guides, controlling process failures, and ensuring all tasks are captured on a task list.
• Special projects where required.

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. To be successful in this role you will need to have the experience listed below:

• AAT qualified or equivalent or relevant finance degree
• Knowledge of SAP and HFM advantageous.
• Strong Excel skills.
• Able to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of individuals and teams.
• Experience in communicating to non-Finance personnel.
• Experience working in an accounting role.
• Customer focused, with a drive for process improvement.

Please note that there will be occasional travel to the Rolls-Royce site based in Derby.

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

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