Head of Finance

Bombarbier; Westerham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Head of Finance for its Biggin Hill Service Center. The role involves overseeing financial operations, ensuring compliance with IFRS, leading a finance team, and collaborating closely with various stakeholders. Candidates should have substantial experience and a relevant degree, with proficiency in financial management systems and strong leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Fluent in English, with knowledge of IFRS.
• Ability to prepare presentations for executive management.

Responsibilities

• Participate in month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Prepare performance governance presentations to management.
• Lead annual audit processes and ensure compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Communication

Team Spirit

Education

Accounting or Finance university degree

Professional accounting designation (CPA, ACCA, FCCA, ACMA)

Tools

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

SAP ECC

SAP S4 Hana

Consolidation system OneStream

Job description

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Bombardier’s Business Aircraft London Service Centre in Biggin Hill is part of an award-winning network and is the flagship of Bombardier’s European operation. This Base and Line Maintenance Centre is the fastest-growing Service Centre in Europe and the largest Business Aircraft OEM in the UK. The facility has the capabilities to perform an array of maintenance checks, modifications and upgrades all from this site. Only 14 miles from London, Bombardier’s Biggin Hill Service Centre is ideally located to support operators in the UK region and beyond.

What are your contributions to the team?

· Participate in monthly period-end, quarter-end and year-end processes for Bombardier Services UK (BSUK)

o Prepare, understand, and/or review journal entries related to general accounting, tax, and more complex subjects.

o Review the Financial Statements, explain and understand the variances and prepare supporting schedules and related reports.

o Review and/or prepare balance sheet accounts reconciliations.

o Prepare month end reports for the consolidation team at the Head Office in Montreal.

o IFRS16 reporting

o Any other related tasks

· Be responsible for the site performance governance

o Prepare and present the performance governance on a weekly basis to the Finance Manager, the General Manager and the rest of the London management team.

o Prepare forecasts, budget and strategic plans

o Prepare and present the key KPIs and Dashboard to the management team.

o Establish the Capex budget, prepare business cases and monitor the spend

· Participate in year-end audits and any other audit internal and/or external

o Lead the annual audit process and the annual statutory requirements for the United Kingdom entities.

o Work closely with the external and internal auditors and manage the relationship.

o Perform and understand the Statutory GAAP to IFRS analysis.

o Submit required Reports and Statistics to HMRC.

o Fully understand the business and its related impacts on the financial statements.

o Coordinate the tax compliance with the taxation group.

o Any other related tasks

· Work closely with the different Finance teams, including

o The Shared Services Center which is responsible for general accounting, trade receivable, intercompany transactions and Trade Payable.

o The Controlling team and internal control team who oversees the inventory and fixed assets count process and other internal audit testing.

o The accounting policies team

o The cash collection team

o The Invoicing team

o Any other team.

· Participate in the development and implementation of various projects.

· Supervise a team of 4 employees

· Other related tasks.

How to thrive in this role?

· You possess a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.

· You possess an accounting or Finance university degree or a professional accounting designation (CPA, ACCA, FCCA, ACMA, or equivalent).

· You have great knowledge of MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint and Word), SAP ECC, SAP S4 Hana and Consolidation system OneStream.

· You speak English fluently.

· You possess a strong knowledge of IFRS.

· You have the ability to learn new systems and functionality rapidly, in a continuously evolving environment.

· You demonstrate strong team spirit and analytical skills, leadership, flexibility, and autonomy.

· You demonstrate strong capacity to work under pressure and under tight deadlines in a complex environment.

· You are willing to travel 5% to 10% of the time

· You are willing to work onsite 4 days per week.

· You have strong ability to communicate.

· You demonstrate skills in preparing presentation to executive level management.

· You possess knowledge in the United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice GAAP (will a be considered an asset).

· You are able to communicate in French (orally and written) (will be considered a strong asset).

· You possess a background in audit (will be considered a strong asset).

· You have experience in aviation and/or in a manufacturing company (will be considered a strong asset).

· You possess experience in supervision (will be considered a strong asset).

Bombardier is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of any race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age immigration status, disability or other applicable legally protected Characteristics to apply.

JobHead of Finance

Primary LocationBiggin Hill Service Center