Senior Finance Business Partner

Bombardier's Business Aircraft London Service Centre in Biggin Hill is part of an award-winning network and is the flagship of Bombardier's European operation. This Base and Line Maintenance Centre is the fastest-growing Service Centre in Europe and the largest Business Aircraft OEM in the UK. The facility has the capabilities to perform an array of maintenance checks, modifications and upgrades all from this site. Only 14 miles from London, Bombardier's Biggin Hill Service Centre is ideally located to support operators in the UK region and beyond.

Job Responsibilities

• Participate in monthly period-end, quarter-end and year-end processes for Bombardier Services UK (BSUK).
• Prepare, understand, and/or review journal entries related to general accounting, tax, and more complex subjects.
• Review the Financial Statements, explain and understand the variances and prepare supporting schedules and related reports.
• Review and/or prepare balance sheet accounts reconciliations.
• Prepare month end reports for the consolidation team at the Head Office in Montreal.
• IFRS16 reporting.
• Any other related tasks.

Site Performance Governance

• 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.
• Prepare forecasts, budget and strategic plans.
• Prepare and present the key KPIs and Dashboard to the management team.
• Establish the Capex budget, prepare business cases and monitor the spend.

Audit Participation

• Lead the annual audit process and the annual statutory requirements for the United Kingdom entities.
• Work closely with the external and internal auditors and manage the relationship.
• Perform and understand the Statutory GAAP to IFRS analysis.
• Submit required Reports and Statistics to HMRC.
• Fully understand the business and its related impacts on the financial statements.
• Coordinate the tax compliance with the taxation group.
• Any other related tasks.

Collaboration and Supervision

• Work closely with the different Finance teams, including the Shared Services Center, Controlling team, internal control team, accounting policies team, cash collection team, and Invoicing team.
• Supervise a team of 4 employees.
• Support ad hoc requests.
• Participate in the development and implementation of various projects.

How to thrive in this role?

• 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 presentations to executive level management.

Bombardier is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of any race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age immigration status, disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics to apply.