Finance Analyst in Belfast

Short Brothers, a Boeing Company, does work that matters — and we do it together. Our teams design, build and support advanced aerostructures, space and defence solutions, with safety, quality and trust at the heart of everything we do. People are respected, ideas are listened to, and good work is recognised. We offer real career paths, flexibility where possible, and the opportunity to work on innovative projects that keep aircraft flying and help shape what comes next.

These opportunities, based at our Belfast site, offer:

• 36 hour working week (half day Friday)
• Generous holidays
• Range of flexible schedules
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
• Death in service payment
• Company occupational sick scheme
• Short Term Incentive Plan
• Private Family Medical Coverage
• On site Occupational Health Department
• Employee Assistance Program
• Professional development and growth
• Coaching and mentoring
• Opportunity for advancement
• Free car parking
• Enhanced maternity pay

We offer an exciting opportunity to join our Finance Department to co-ordinate and complete month-end and year-end processes, work with functional heads to achieve their financial targets, support the Belfast site governance processes, and support and liaise with Finance Leadership teams in Belfast and Wichita, as required, on controlling and financial planning activities.

Responsibilities:

• Perform period-end activities to ensure proper classification and validity of financials, including manual journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Prepare management reporting for relevant process specialty.
• Ensure standardisation of processes and reports across sites and business units.
• Ensure data accuracy in general ledger and sub-ledgers by performing various controls, including reconciliations between ledgers.
• Own the procedures and methodology of relevant process specialty.
• Ensure calculations and methodologies are standardised across sites and definitions are comparable.
• Provide preliminary comments regarding actuals and identify variances against budget and forecast.
• Ensure appropriate accounting treatment of activities and transactions.
• Participate in the budgeting and forecasting process by providing accurate historical data, ensuring standardisation of templates across sites and business units, and monitoring and evaluating business performance against targets.
• Analyse financial reporting and flow down to operational teams to explain performance and understand key drivers.
• Participate in operational meetings and day-to-day site management in order to help quickly identify risks and opportunities and drive financial performance.
• Support process improvement, process optimisation and special projects.
• Actively contribute to knowledge sharing.

Qualifications:

It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that sufficient detail is provided on the application form to demonstrate how the applicant meets essential job criteria, as this alone will be used for vetting purposes.

Essential:

• Qualified membership of a recognised CAAB accountancy body.
• Strong organisational and planning skills.
• Significant technical accounting knowledge.
• Ability to deal with senior personnel.
• Strong Finance/IT systems experience.

We employ people from all sections of the community and are committed to the appointment of the best candidate based upon the merit principle alone. In pursuit of our equal opportunities programme, we would particularly welcome more applications from Catholics and females, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.