Finance Manager

GKN Aerospace •

Westlake, Texas, United States

Position Type: Permanent

Job Description:

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. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

This position will report directly into the Vice President Finance within Defense, and will support the broader Defense Business Line and its portfolio of manufacturing sites within GKN Aerospace.
The selected candidate will support the implementation of disciplined financial strategies and best practices across the business, and be responsible for driving robust cost and departmental budget management, standardizing indirect/rate structures, and performing various ad-hoc financial analysis/modeling to support business recommendations to key stakeholders and senior leaders across the organization to ensure sound financial judgement in all business decisions.
This position requires strong business acumen and offers a unique opportunity to utilize diverse financial management experience and proven strategies to support optimizing business practices and providing financial clarity that will enable the business to achieve its objectives, deliver margin expansion and cash generation, and improved operational performance for a global Aerospace & Defense company.

Job Responsibilities

Overall, this individual will be involved in a variety of financial, operational and strategic activities, reviews and related decisions that will have a significant impact on the business, and help drive improved reporting of key operational metrics to support increased accountability and performance.

Support with coordination and related review cycles around month-end and both short-term and longer-term forecasting cadence, and capital planning processes
Perform ad-hoc and complex financial analysis; what-if/scenario-based planning
Partner with Integrated Program Teams (IPTs) to enhance reporting of program finance within the sites and across the Defence business
Effective oral and written communication skills will be required to effectively manage across multiple leadership levels as well as various functional and customer levels
Ability to analyze complex financial data and create financial models as-needed to substantiate recommendations
Utilize central consolidation/reporting tools, such as OneStream and TM1, to perform financial analysis and distill data into actionable reports
Develop and utilize forward-looking data analytics, visualization, and trend analysis to inform financial strategy and decision making
Ensure senior leaders are kept fully informed of their spending relative to budgets
Perform indirect cost analysis to ensure the required operating and financial performance objectives are achieved

Job Requirements:
Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

BS/BA in Accounting, Finance
Experience with enterprise-level cost management tools (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Cobra, Hyperion/Smartview, OneStream, TM1)
5-10 years of experience in Aerospace and Defense industry
Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder due to program security clearance requirements and/or SSA requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

Advanced degree is preferred; MBA is most desirable.
Prior experience in FP&A and Program Finance
Experience leading projects that aim to innovate tools, processes, and product
Experience with Tableau or similar reporting/visualization tools
Ability to work independently and meet hard deadlines
Able to extract, compile and summarize financial data in such a manner that complex matters can be distilled into simple problem statements & recommendations
Comfortable developing concise and clear executive-style presentations to support various reviews, forecasting cycles and monthly & quarterly performance briefings
Demonstrate clear understanding and application of cost and indirect Forward-Pricing Rates (Overhead, Material Handling and SG&A) management techniques, including performance against budget and rate monitoring cadence
Advanced Excel, Power Point and Reporting skills required

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.

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