Rolls-Royce
Senior Finance Analyst – Financial Control – Civil Aerospace
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Job Description
Senior Finance Analyst – Financial Control – Civil Aerospace
Location: Derby
Type: Full time - 12 month Secondment
Why join Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.
By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
Position Summary
This is a high-profile opportunity to join the Civil Aerospace Financial Control team, at the heart of one of Rolls-Royce’s most complex and strategically important businesses. In this role, you will help protect the integrity of Civil Aerospace financial reporting, deliver insight that supports confident decision-making, and work closely with engine programme finance teams, senior stakeholders and audit partners across the business.
You will gain broad exposure to monthly actuals, budgets, forecasts, balance sheet assurance, controls and process improvement, giving you the opportunity to deepen your technical finance capability, strengthen your commercial understanding and build confidence in influencing across a broad stakeholder group. For a finance professional who enjoys challenge, visibility and continuous improvement, this role offers a strong platform to broaden experience, raise your profile, develop leadership potential and make a visible contribution to a high-performing finance function.
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What you will be doing:
- Play a key role in delivering monthly actuals, turning performance against budget/forecast into clear insight for stakeholders driving tangible actions.
- Partner with engine programme finance teams to shape robust budgets and forecasts that reflect business performance and support confident decisions.
- Help safeguard the integrity of Civil Aerospace results through strong controls, clear documentation and timely resolution of issues.
- Challenge how things are done, identifying opportunities to improve processes and enhance the quality, pace and value of financial information.
- Take ownership of key audit and internal reporting deliverables, building credibility through high-quality outputs delivered right first time.
Position qualifications:
- Appropriate professional financial qualification and ability to apply knowledge
- Working knowledge of SAP, HFM, OHP
- Understanding of complex technical accounting
Preferred requirements:
- Experience of managing complex processes
- Ability to manage internal and external relationships
- Understanding and communication of key business analysis and insight
- Actively identify and enact core business process improvement
Regional Benefits
- Generous Annual Leave
- Retirement Savings through the Rolls-Royce Retirement Savings Trust
- Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce
- Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
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Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient, and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.
This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
For further information please contact: daniel.stanley@rolls-royce.com
Job Category
Finance
Posting Date
28 Jul 2026; 00:07
Posting End Date
10 Aug 2026
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