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 and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

This position supports the Alabama manufacturing site within the Defense Business Line and GKN Aerospace. This is an individual contributor position and will report directly to the site’s Finance Director, and will be responsible for developing and providing actionable Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) recommendations to key stakeholders and senior leaders to ensure sound financial and operation decisions occur. This position will be involved in a variety of financial, operational and strategic analysis, reviews and related decisions that have significant impact on the business.

Overall, this individual will have overall responsibility for all FP&A-related activities, including financial modeling and analysis and site coordination to support month-end analysis, forecasting cycles throughout the year, establishing the Budget (Annual Operating Plan) and Strat Plan (Long Range Plan over the 5-YR outlook). This position is also essential in supporting functional areas with financial analysis, ad-hoc and complex what-if/scenario-based planning, program finances and risk assessment to delivering on their commitments (e.g. indirect rate volatility, material/inflationary impacts and trend analysis), overhead/conversion cost and Forward-Pricing Rates, primarily alignment of financial performance will revolve around Backlog, Arrears, Sales, Operating Income, Cash, Inventory and manufacturing productivity metrics.

Job Responsibilities

• Effective oral and written communication skills will be required to effectively manage across multiple leadership levels as well as various functional and customer levels
• Analyze financial data from Cincom ERP and utilize financial models, OneStream and TM1 consolidation tools to perform financial analysis and distill into actionable reports
• Develop and utilize forward-looking data analytics, visualization, and trend analysis to inform financial strategy and decision making
• Perform analysis on customer margins in detail by contract, model and part number. Understand and explain cost components to managers to take effective action to improve margins while maintaining quality and delivery performance
• Identify and develop efficient and effective methods and practices to analyze financial results and operating data required by Purchasing, Programs and Manufacturing Operations management. Analyze this data and deliver meaningful information to management with corrective action plans. Implement and ensure performance to realize these desired financial results.
• Analyze direct and indirect labor levels and trends
• Ensure managers are kept fully informed of their spending and financial results, while maintaining a firm and creditable relationships with all levels of management
• Perform indirect cost and program costs analysis to ensure the required operating and financial performance objectives at achieved.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelors in FP&A, Accounting, or related fields of finance
• 2+ years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis
• Experience with enterprise-level cost management tools (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Cobra Cincom, Hyperion/Smartview, OneStream, TM1)
• Proficient working experience with Excel, Power Point and Reporting skills
• Must be a US Persons (US Citizen, Green Card Holder / US permanent resident, refugee or asylee) to meet export control compliance requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferred experience in Aerospace and Defense industry with experience in a manufacturing environment
• 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
• Ability to work independently and meet hard deadlines
• Experience leading projects that aim to innovate tools, processes, and product
• Experience with Tableau or similar reporting/visualization tools

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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