Finance Business Partner - Global Defence IT

Finance Business Partner Global IT – Defence

Full Time

Bristol / Indianapolis

Grade: Level C
 

Why Rolls-Royce?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Finance Business Partner IT to join the Defence Finance Team. 

Join us and we’ll provide an inclusive environment where you can be yourself, with a culture that gives you a platform for continuous learning, delivering an incredible breadth knowledge and direct customer experience.

On behalf of Defence IT, you will support and influence key operational and strategic decisions whilst driving business performance, prioritizing long-term value creation and simplicity in decision making.  You will also be responsible for effective stewardship over the Defence IT cost base of over £100m pa.

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

Your needs are as unique as you are. We encourage flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working wherever possible, so you can always be at your best - wherever and whenever you work.

What you will be doing

You will be reviewing, understanding and driving improvement to the entire Defence IT cost base alongside business partnering the Defence Chief Digital Information Officer and their leadership team.

• Consolidating, analysing and reporting on business and financial performance of Defence IT spend to provide actionable information to management. In the short term and over the medium-term window (5 year plan).
• Business partner the Defence IT and Digital team through robust performance management. Including but not limited to Operating Costs, cost rate performance and investment cases.
• Manage a robust risk and opportunities process to steer the business through periods of change and challenging environments.
• Develop and drive improvements to the total defence IT cost base. Enabling cost transparency and opportunity creation.
• Influence and champion the defence business within the roll out of Rolls Royce’s multi year Digital and IT strategy programme.

Who we’re looking for

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do.  These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Professional financial qualification preferably qualified accountant (CPA, MBA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA).
• Resilient, self-motivated and accomplished at forming relationships and influencing people at all levels in the company.
• Knowledge and experience of SAP preferable.
• Be based in the UK/US and be willing and able to travel to our operations anywhere in the world from time to time (if required).

Join us & Power our future

Pioneers of Power

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 careers.rolls-royce.com