Finance Business Partner

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Finance Business Partner

Full time

Derby / Hybrid – 3 days on-site

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Business Partner to join the Procurement Finance Team, based in Derby.

What you will be doing:

As a Finance Business Partner, you will work in partnership with the Aerospace Procurement function, supporting & challenging them to make the right decisions on cost, cash & risk.

Succeeding in this role means having a focus on results, working effectively with Finance and Procurement teams, effective stakeholder management and prioritising on areas of largest value, risk and strategic importance.

Our Procurement teams are located throughout the UK and Overseas.

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.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a busy influential area of the business which will give you ample opportunities to develop your career.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in delivering the strategic sourcing process, from initial strategy formulation and sourcing evaluation to contract review to optimise business outcomes. Ensure that robust financial analysis is performed in areas such as total cost of acquisition modelling and supporting negotiation activity.
• Drive improved business performance, providing insight and challenge to the purchasing teams to deliver on cost and cash.
• Support Business Continuity Management for Aerospace Procurement. Proactively perform supplier financial risk assessments, and ensure action is taken with the Procurement teams to mitigate and manage risk.
• Support externally facing supplier reviews and actions in the event of supplier failures.
• Work with the Procurement Teams to mitigate supplier claims on RR and to identify appropriate claims on suppliers, ensuring that the supplier claims database reflects the current position.
• Manage and deliver purchasing financial forecast processes relating to Aerospace Procurement.
• Review actual results against forecasts including identification of actions required to improve performance and driving these actions through to conclusion.
• Proactively support continuous improvement as part of a global procurement finance team

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.

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 and for this role we are looking for someone with:

• Qualified Accountant
• Business case experience.
• Strong analytical, negotiating and business acumen, a curious mindset, flexible approach with the ability to be bold and think differently.
• Demonstrate an ability to influence for value.
• Capable of working within a multi-functional team and convey information to stakeholders outside of the finance function clearly.

Join us & Make an impact

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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, 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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