Job Title:
Finance Manager – Reporting and Consolidation
Working Pattern:
Full-time
Working location:
Bristol/Hybrid
When you join as a Finance Manager in Reporting and Consolidation, you will play a critical role in ensuring financial integrity across Rolls-Royce Defence UK&I. This is a high-impact position where you’ll lead statutory and actuals reporting, manage external audit cycles, and oversee compliance processes. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, auditors, and Finance Analysts, making this an excellent opportunity to influence and strengthen financial governance across the business.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.
We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.
This role sits within our Defence UK&I Finance team, supporting our mission-critical work to deliver trusted power solutions to customers around the globe.
We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
As part of our team, you’ll benefit from exceptional exposure to financial reporting, audit and compliance, with the chance to influence at senior levels. You’ll also have opportunities to mentor others, drive process improvements, and contribute to business-wide projects – all within a supportive, career-enhancing environment.
What we offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.
What you will be doing
As Finance Manager, you’ll play a central role in ensuring accurate, compliant, and insightful financial reporting across Defence UK&I. You’ll be hands-on with statutory reporting and audit cycles, while also supporting and developing the Finance Analyst team and driving improvements in our financial controls. With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:
Lead the actuals and quarterly statutory reporting processes, aligning with Group and Sector requirements.
Manage external audit cycles, acting as the key contact for auditors and internal stakeholders.
Oversee FX postings and statutory compliance, providing clear analysis and commentary.
Mentor and guide the Finance Analyst team, ensuring consistency and best practice.
Enhance financial controls, tools, and processes to improve accuracy and efficiency.
Who we’re looking for:
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
We’re seeking a finance professional who brings both technical expertise and strong leadership skills. You’ll thrive in a role where accuracy, compliance, and clear communication are key, and you’ll be confident in guiding a team while influencing stakeholders across the business. To be successful in this role you will need to:
Be a fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA).
Demonstrate proven experience in auditing, reporting, and statutory compliance.
Communicate effectively and build strong relationships with stakeholders.
Drive process improvements and contribute to wider finance projects.
Have experience managing and developing teams.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce
To work for the Rolls-Royce Defence business an individual has to hold a BPSS clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for BPSS if you do not currently already have this in place.
Closing date: 20/10/2025