Finance Business Partner - Infrastructure

Job Description

Job Title: Finance Business Partner – Infrastructure

Working Pattern:Full Time
Working

Location:

Bristol

As Finance Business Partner for Infrastructure, you will work closely with the Infrastructure programme teams, alongside wider Finance stakeholders, to ensure each project is accounted for correctly. This requires a strong understanding of finance and Government accounting regulations to define the most appropriate accounting policy and treatment for each project.

You will also help to define and shape Finance IT system requirementsin support of a new facility.

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.

This role sits within the UK&I Future Programmes, Business Development and Early Life Cycle (UK&I FP, BD & ELC) Finance team, supporting the UK&I FP, BD & ELC organisation.

You will report to the VP Finance, UK&I BD & FP & ELC, and will support the Infrastructure programmeswithin the portfolio.

The Finance team is responsible for the integrity of the accounts and ensuring that costs on Government contractscomply with relevant costing and recovery processes.

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.

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.

• Partner with the Infrastructure programme team to ensure the team understands the financial implications of transactions and proposed decisions before they are enacted.
• Recommend and agree the accounting treatment for each infrastructure project, ensuring compliance with Government accounting, contract, and financial accounting rules, and that each project is reflected correctly in the accounts.
• Ensure all infrastructure costs to be charged to contract are allowable, and ensure the organisation recovers costs to contract where appropriate, recommending and implementing new accounting policies/processes as required.
• Review cost recovery of costs impacting cost rate areasto ensure the most appropriate method of cost recovery is used.
• Interface with the MoD / Industryas part of infrastructure governance reviews.
• Act as Finance lead for new ERP system set-up required in new manufacturing facilities, including understanding and defining finance and cost accounting methodology and system requirements, plus definition, user testing and implementation.
• Act as Finance lead, as required, for the new manufacturing facility following go-live.
• Hold financial accountability for infrastructure, including cashflow reporting and forecasting.
• Develop and maintain appropriate financial KPIs, including robust risk and opportunity management.
• Support internal governance and audit as appropriate.
• Work as part of the UK&I BD & FP & ELC Finance team to ensure actuals, budgets and forecasts are completed in line with timelines.
• Work with the Senior Business Partner UK&I BD & FP & ELC to ensure consistency and support across the portfolio.
• Provide support to the Finance Analyst and Project Accountant UK&I BD & ELC.

To start, you will require a minimum Security…