Chief Accountant

Rolls Royce; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is seeking a Chief Accountant to join the Technical and Assurance team. This role involves statutory reporting and ensuring compliance, while developing strong relationships within the finance and non-finance teams. With hybrid working and a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this position offers an opportunity to grow in a leading aerospace company.

Benefits

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Continuous learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with understanding of statutory accounting requirements.
• Experience of audit processes and responding to deliverables desired.
• Proactive with good attention to detail and strong organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key contact to PwC for audit requirements.
• Main contact for statutory reporting, governance, and audit issues.
• Support the business with Group Finance applications.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Communication

Education

Qualified accountant

Tools

SAP

HFM

Job description

Job Description

Chief Accountant

Derby, UK

Derby/Hybrid - minimum 3 days on site per week

What you will be doing:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Chief Accountant to join the Technical and Assurance team in Derby.

The Chief Accountant role provides a rare opportunity to gain statutory and governance experience through a broad range of responsibilities, exploring the breadth of the Civil Aerospace network and the chance to build a network of finance and non-finance colleagues.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a key contact to PwC to ensure audit requirements are met
• Be pivotal in the Civil stewardship journey and provide compliance, procedure, and policy support for stakeholders
• Support the business with the application of Group Finance and Civil Aerospace finance manuals
• Attend balance sheet reviews with finance teams and business stakeholders and challenge to ensure robustness
• Maintain delegated authority listings and approve SAP finance access
• Group Tax contact and responsibility for Senior Accounting Officer compliance and buy off with Civil CFO.
• Main contact for statutory reporting, governance, tax and audit issues for Middle East and other Civil overseas branches
• Prepare the FX sentencing reports and other key documents for statutory reporting and audit purposes
• Be a central Blackline contact for Civil and a local administrator
• Acting as the second line of defence, be a governance expert, prepared to be involved in a number of ad hoc requests as the Civil contact

Why Rolls-Royce?

Work with us and we'll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

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. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

Who we're looking for:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you'll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Qualified accountant with understanding of statutory accounting requirements
• Ideally experience of audit processes and responding to Connect deliverables
• Proactive, accountable, good attention to detail and able to work using own initiative.
• Strong organisation, time management and planning skills
• Ability to multitask and be approachable with a helpful mindset
• Good at developing relationships and communicating at all levels of the organisation with finance and non finance personnel
• Good understanding of SAP and basic knowledge of HFM

Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Level C.

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role.

We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

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.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here.

Grade: Level C

Closing Date: Midnight 23rd June 2025

Recruiter: [e-mail]

Job Category

Finance

Posting Date

11 Jun 2025; 00:06

Posting End Date

22 Jun 2025