Head of Finance

What are your contributions to the team?

· Participate in monthly period-end, quarter-end and year-end processes for Bombardier Services UK (BSUK)

o Prepare, understand, and/or review journal entries related to general accounting, tax, and more complex subjects.

o Review the Financial Statements, explain and understand the variances and prepare supporting schedules and related reports.

o Review and/or prepare balance sheet accounts reconciliations.

o Prepare month end reports for the consolidation team at the Head Office in Montreal.

o IFRS16 reporting

o Any other related tasks

· Be responsible for the site performance governance

o Prepare and present the performance governance on a weekly basis to the Finance Manager, the General Manager and the rest of the London management team.

o Prepare forecasts, budget and strategic plans

o Prepare and present the key KPIs and Dashboard to the management team.

o Establish the Capex budget, prepare business cases and monitor the spend

· Participate in year-end audits and any other audit internal and/or external

o Lead the annual audit process and the annual statutory requirements for the United Kingdom entities.

o Work closely with the external and internal auditors and manage the relationship.

o Perform and understand the Statutory GAAP to IFRS analysis.

o Submit required Reports and Statistics to HMRC.

o Fully understand the business and its related impacts on the financial statements.

o Coordinate the tax compliance with the taxation group.

o Any other related tasks

· Work closely with the different Finance teams, including

o The Shared Services Center which is responsible for general accounting, trade receivable, intercompany transactions and Trade Payable.

o The Controlling team and internal control team who oversees the inventory and fixed assets count process and other internal audit testing.

o The accounting policies team

o The cash collection team

o The Invoicing team

o Any other team.

· Participate in the development and implementation of various projects.

· Supervise a team of 4 employees

· Support ad hoc request.

· Other related tasks.

How to thrive in this role?

· You possess a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.

· You possess an accounting or Finance university degree or a professional accounting designation (CPA, ACCA, FCCA, ACMA, or equivalent).

· You have great knowledge of MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint and Word), SAP ECC, SAP S4 Hana and Consolidation system OneStream.

· You speak English fluently.

· You possess a strong knowledge of IFRS.

· You have the ability to learn new systems and functionality rapidly, in a continuously evolving environment.

· You demonstrate strong team spirit and analytical skills, leadership, flexibility, and autonomy.

· You demonstrate strong capacity to work under pressure and under tight deadlines in a complex environment.

· You are willing to travel 5% to 10% of the time

· You are willing to work onsite 4 days per week.

· You have strong ability to communicate.

· You demonstrate skills in preparing presentation to executive level management.

· You possess knowledge in the United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice GAAP (will a be considered an asset).

· You are able to communicate in French (orally and written) (will be considered a strong asset).

· You possess a background in audit (will be considered a strong asset).

· You have experience in aviation and/or in a manufacturing company (will be considered a strong asset).

· You possess experience in supervision (will be considered a strong asset).