Finance Business Partner - Engineering Capabilities
// Role Summary
Rolls-Royce is seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner for its Engineering Capabilities team to drive financial strategy, manage investments, and deliver sustainable business outcomes. This role offers a chance to shape the future of engineering finance within a leading global company.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead financial planning, forecasting, and strategic decision-making for Engineering Capabilities.
- Manage and deliver engineering capital investments, business cases, and strategic initiatives.
- Drive affordability, productivity, and efficiency improvements.
- Partner with Test & Experimental Engineering, overseeing a £200m+ annual spend portfolio.
- Requires a professional accounting qualification and strong stakeholder management skills.
// Role Specification
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Engineering Capabilities Finance Business Partner within the Engineering, Technology & Safety Finance team at Rolls-Royce. This is a finance delivery leadership role for a motivated individual capable of managing complex, cross-functional financial challenges and translating them into implemented, sustainable outcomes.
Reporting to the VP Finance, Engineering Portfolio, Programme Management, Strategy & Capabilities, you will act as a Finance Delivery Lead across Engineering Capabilities. Your responsibilities will include establishing effective governance, providing early visibility of risks and opportunities, and driving complex financial initiatives through to implementation and benefit realisation to maximise value from investment and resources.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner Engineering Capability leaders to support planning, forecasting, performance management, and strategic decision-making.
- Establish governance and early-warning mechanisms to ensure risks, opportunities, and key decisions are identified and escalated appropriately.
- Lead the development and delivery of engineering capital investment, business cases, and strategic initiatives.
- Drive affordability, productivity, and efficiency opportunities through to implementation and benefit realisation.
- Lead changes to cost rates, charging methodologies, and other key financial processes.
- Coordinate complex cross-functional activities across Engineering, Finance, and divisional stakeholders, driving actions to closure.
- Support portfolio reviews and investment governance forums, providing clear analysis and recommendations.
- Improve financial processes, reporting, and ways of working, simplifying where possible and embedding best practice.
- Act as the Finance Business Partner for Test & Experimental Engineering, leading forecasting, investment planning, and risk and opportunity management across a £200m+ annual spend portfolio.
Qualifications:
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g., CIMA, ACA, ACCA).
- Experience in finance business partnering, investment appraisal, or a related finance leadership role.
- A track record of leading complex cross-functional initiatives and delivering sustainable business outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience developing and implementing business cases, investment proposals, or strategic initiatives.
- The ability to establish effective governance, manage ambiguity, and drive actions through to completion.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- A proactive and resilient approach with a focus on delivery.
We are looking for a self-starter who thrives on delivery. Success in this role will be measured not only by the quality of financial insight provided but by the ability to translate opportunities, investment decisions, and improvement initiatives into tangible business outcomes.