Job Description
Financial Accountant
Full Time
London/Hybrid - 3 days on site a week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Financial Accountant to join Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance Limited (RRPF) a joint venture company between Rolls-Royce PLC and GATX Corporation based in central London.
RRPF is a jet engine leasing company with the largest global portfolio of Rolls-Royce aero engines, providing medium and long term spare engine leasing and bespoke financial solutions to airlines, aircraft lessors and OEMs. We support over 50 customers worldwide with a portfolio of over 500 jet engines.
What you will be doing:
* Manage the AP ledger to ensure all invoices are recorded, accurate cost reporting is completed, and suppliers are paid in a timely manner.
* Produce all internal and statutory supplier reporting for review by the Directors of Finance and CFO.
* Ensure all processes are followed when setting up new suppliers.
* Cash Management and reporting - Manage all our cash and bank accounts and debt book, including producing weekly rolling cash forecasts. Make debt service payments on a quarterly basis to ensure we meet obligations in our debt agreements.
* Lead bank account access reviews and ensure bank mandates and signatory lists are maintained and up-to-date.
* Purchase Order Process - Work closely with the Director - Treasury and FP&A and wider business to drive adoption of a single PO model for the business. Monitor and run the process, including performing reconciliations and ensuring PO approvals and rejections are given in a timely fashion.
* AR - Support the Operations teams to ensure monthly billings are raised in a timely fashion, and review lease and sale agreements to ensure that transactions are correctly recorded on RRPF's accounting and contract management systems.
* Reporting - Support and improve month-end close processes, driving improvement and automation of management accounts production. Responsible for timely production of monthly reconciliations and monthly variance analysis feeding into monthly management accounts and to help prepare/consolidate budgets and forecasts in accordance with JV partners' timetables. Act as a point of contact for our auditors, dealing with audit queries within agreed deadlines.
* Continuous improvement - Identify areas for improvement and be proactive in implementing such changes. Improve the month end close process and the monthly results pack for senior management. Support various ad-hoc and transactional projects.
* Tax - Involved in preparing monthly VAT returns and supporting tax advisors with annual corporate tax compliance process.
Who we're looking for:
* Qualified / Part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CA) with experience in industry particularly managing AP ledgers.
* Excellent accounting knowledge.
* Excellent Excel, Powerpoint and other MS Office skills. Demonstrable excellent financial modelling skills will be a plus.
* Strong teamworking, communication skills, commercially astute, can-do attitude and attention to detail.
* Knowledge of Sun Systems, Hyperion, Salesforce, and accounts production software (e.g. Thomson Reuters AP) a plus.
* Leasing industry experience and/or interest in aviation and the airline industry also a plus.
* Experience of designing and implementing new systems and processes also a plus.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse team 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.
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