Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
The site finance lead is the key manager for all site level financial matters. They are a key business partner to the site leader and report to the regional finance manager.
The role has primary day-to-day responsibility for the integrity of financial data on site. This encompasses robust transactional processing, local management judgement, governance and reporting as well as the ownership of systems enabling the planning, control and reporting of financial results for both management and statutory purposes including overall P&L, balance sheet and cash accountability for the site and the allocation of these to the relevant business line, global function or operation. They are also the key partner for financial legal entity matters.
- Business partnering
- Ensuring strong corporate governance
- Ensuring development of the finance team
- Ensuring management team has a strong understanding of their impact on critical financial performance measures
- Supporting the overall objectives of Finance within GKN Aerospace.
- Work closely with the site lead and operations & business lines finance to deliver and offer insight into site financial performance, budget and strategy, and ensure that costs amd results are controlled and reported appropriately
- Develop and maintain a system of costing and reporting required to support management and statutiry requirements.
- Manage capital appropriations to ensure that capital expenditures are budgeted, properly authorized, spend is controlled and to confirm value delivered from projects.
- Ensure that financial systems, controls, delegated authorities and reporting throughout the site comply with all national rules and regulations and comply with GKN policies and procedures.
- In conjunction with GKN tax, ensure full compliance with all tax and duty regimes.
- To own the site Enterprise Risk Management Process and to co-ordinate action on the management team to mitigate enterprise risks.
- To support compliance with regulations particularly relevant in a defence related business including but not limited to export control, ITAR, DFARS and Anti Bribery and Corruption legislation.
- Ensure that the on site finance team has the appropriate calibre of staff and that development plans are in place to ensure peoples’ potential is maximized. To ensure recruitment and promotion take account of GKN’s diversity policies.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience of GKN's Aerospace business
- Manufacturing experience
- Experience of local ERP system
- Experience of working within a matrix organisation
We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
