Job Description
Vice President Finance – Global Business Services
Fulltime
Derby/Hybrid
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a VP Finance – Global Business Services to join the Central Finance Head Office team, based in Derby.
As VP Finance – Global Business Services, you will be an integral part of the GBS Executive team and will play a leading role in securing savings on managed service costs, optimising GBS service delivery costs and shaping/delivering the emerging global GBS strategy. This role also provides a unique opportunity to become a Director of RR International, which is a separate legal entity and involves ensuring we meet our statutory obligations.
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
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.
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.
- 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.
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
Job Category
Finance
Posting Date
08 Nov 2024; 00:11
Posting End Date
22 Nov 2024
