Senior FP&A
// Role Summary
Rolls-Royce is seeking a Senior FP&A Manager to join their Group team in Derby. This hands-on role is responsible for delivering high-quality financial information and insight, supporting performance management, budgeting, forecasting, and longer-term financial planning.
// Key Responsibilities
- Support in-year performance management, budgeting, forecasting, and longer-term financial planning for the Group.
- Provide clear financial analysis and insight to articulate performance and identify intervention opportunities.
- Produce written summaries and presentations for executive reports.
- Undertake consolidation, modelling, scenario, and sensitivity analysis.
- Drive the quality and integrity of analysis and forecasts, ensuring robust financial controls.
- Manage stakeholders and constructively challenge to identify performance opportunities.
// Role Specification
At Rolls-Royce, we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
We are seeking an analytical, detail-oriented and highly collaborative Senior FP&A Manager to join our Group team. This is a broad and hands-on role, responsible for delivering high-quality financial information and insight to the Rolls-Royce Group. It provides a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the performance management of the wider Group with exposure to the key topics impacting the CFO/CEO.
Key Accountabilities
- Supporting in-year performance management, budgeting, forecasting and longer-term financial planning cycles for the Group.
- Providing clear financial analysis and insight to articulate financial performance and identify performance intervention opportunities.
- Producing written summaries/presentations for reference in executive reports.
- Undertaking consolidation, modelling, scenario and sensitivity analysis.
- Driving the quality and integrity of analysis, forecasts, plans and explanations provided - ensuring robust financial controls, processes, and governance frameworks are in place and consistently applied.
- Managing stakeholders by proactively defining and influencing requirements and deliverables.
- Constructively challenging stakeholders in identifying performance opportunities, improving insight and driving integrity of submissions.
- Supporting improvement projects across systems, processes and reporting in driving the above.
Key Experiences and Qualifications
We are looking for a proactive and commercially aware finance leader who can think tactically whilst operating at a detailed level.
You will likely demonstrate:
- A recognised accounting qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent).
- Experience in a Financial Controller/ senior finance leadership position within a manufacturing, engineering or product-based environment. Exposure to international operations or multi-entity structures would be advantageous.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and experience of group reporting structures, with exposure to Group statutory reporting.
- Hands-on knowledge of finance systems (Hyperion an advantage); Modelling/ advanced excel skills.
- The ability to communicate financial information clearly.
- Evidence of partnering collaboratively with a ‘team mindset’.
- Organised, flexible and resilient. Delivery focussed, with ability to set requirements under ambiguity.
- Highly analytical with a curious mindset. Detail oriented.
- A track record of improving financial controls, reports and processes within a growing business.