Safran
Finance Business Partner
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Finance Business Partner
Banbury
Full Time / Part Time Options available
Looking after the people who make Safran great is our priority. We offer a range of flexible benefits designed to support you—both in and out of work, including:
- Competitive salary and annual bonus and pay review
- 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Comprehensive health cash plan
- Pension (10% employer contribution) and life assurance
- Early finish on Fridays
- Professional development, ongoing training, mentoring
- Onsite amenities: parking, restaurant, bicycle storage, showers
- Family-friendly and accessible workplace policies
What does the role look like?
We're looking for a commercially driven Finance Business Partner to join our Banbury team during an exciting period of growth. You will be a key strategic partner to the Value Stream leadership team at our Actuation Systems Composite Center of Excellence, providing timely, data-driven insights to support smarter business decisions, maximise returns, and foster a cost-conscious, continuous improvement culture.
At our Banbury site, we design, develop, and manufacture high-performance aerospace composite products for military and commercial applications. Our advanced research, development, and manufacturing capabilities include robotic filament winding, multi-axis braiding, and high-volume composite component production.
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Your ability to build strong relationships, challenge conventional thinking, and drive performance through insightful analysis will be crucial to success. While experience in Manufacturing or Engineering is beneficial, it's not essential—we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply!
What will your day-to-day responsibilities look like?
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the Banbury Value Stream, providing financial analysis, insight, and key support to senior leadership.
- Accountable for overseeing the financial performance, identifying risks and opportunities and preparing monthly accounts.
- Responsible for the forecasting process, delivering in a timely and accurate fashion with full Value Stream participation.
- Act as a key contributor towards long term strategy to drive growth and driving cost reduction projects.
- Measure and attend daily business performance reviews to improve manufacturing output.
- Supporting the Programmes functions, ensuring correct pricing and good long term product profitability.
- Ensure the control environment is maintained and complies with Collins Aerospace's accounting policies and procedures in line with US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley and international accounting standards.
- Coordinate audit processes for the Value Stream Finance team as required (Internal & External).
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What will you bring to the role?
Essential skills:
- Must have Finance qualification.
- Proven business partnering experience with a demonstrated ability to influence business leaders and finance colleagues.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
Desirable skills:
- Proactive and hands-on approach to problem solving.
- Ability to challenge the status quo.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Advanced MS Office including strong Excel skills.
- Fantastic communication skills, preferably experience at all levels of an organisation.
- Adaptable and able to make both timely and effective decisions.
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