GE Aerospace Fp&A Strategic Finance Leader

Job Description Summary

Whether you want to work at one of our facilities as the site leader's right hand helping to make business decisions or at headquarters on a larger finance team, we have an opportunity for you. You'll get to work with budgets of various sizes and complexities, while collaborating with others. Our finance and accounting teams span the globe, providing unmatched learning, development, and career growth opportunities.

This role will be responsible for driving strategic priorities for GE Aerospace primarily supporting the GE Aerospace CFO and FP&A leader with opportunities for CEO and broader cross-functional support. The Strategic Finance Leader will be the point of contact for all external related activities and analysis including Board of Directors, Ratings Agency, and Investor Relations support. This role will also be responsible to help drive cross-business strategic priorities and processes.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Support Aerospace CFO and FP&A leader on driving strategic priorities and completing requested analytics outside standard work of closing and forecasting cycles; partner closely across Group FP&A team for total Aerospace analytics.
• Act as critical partner to Aerospace CEO, CFO, FP&A leader, IR leader, and division leadership teams on data and analytics specific to market and competitor dynamics, both financial and operational, and how they compare to ours from an actual and outlook trending perspective.
• Collaborate with Investor Relations team on providing necessary financial inputs to support earnings and other external engagements, including investor conferences. Support guidance, external scripts, Q&A, and other business-specific analytics processes, closely coordinating with all divisional teams.
• Prepare and coordinate financial and other required operational materials for the Board of Directors, closely partnering with legal. Provide summarized financials and additional analytical insights to the Aerospace CFO, working across business teams as necessary for support.
• Partner with Treasury team to support Ratings Agency updates, to ensure consistency and accuracy of financial actual and scenarios presented. Breadth of scope includes reported financials as well as ratings agency defined definitions, inclusive of additional liquidity sources and uses of cash aligned to capital structure scenarios.
• Support regular engagements with the European Works Council, representing GE Aerospace finance in the meetings with the representatives. Prepare materials and response to Q&A, coordinating across all other GE Aerospace business and functional teams who are involved in the process.
• Lead the development and consolidation of enterprise-wide strategic financial processes. Partner across the business teams and with the GE Aerospace CEO, CFO, and FP&A leader to set the process framework as well as develop the plan to help achieve external financial commitments. Additional activities could include integration of total company capital decisioning and allocations and financial support of enterprise risk management assessments.
• Develop and maintain close partnership with central GE Aerospace Strategy team, acting as financial partner in all total company and cross-business activities. Support and supplement, as needed, market intelligence efforts and analytics, driving connectivity between corporate, IR, and business teams as appropriate.
• Ensure connectivity and linkage of long-term financial outlooks to individual product line business plans and capital allocation investment decisions.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of finance experience.
• Expertise in financial modeling and significant financial acumen.
• Proven leadership and ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels, including senior management.
• Strong communication skills to align key messages with stakeholder needs.
• Experience managing direct reports and cross-functional teams.
• Proficiency in financial systems (e.g., Hyperion, Oracle) and Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Process improvement mindset and commitment to continuous improvement.
• Travel to Cincinnati and Boston will be required at least once per quarter.

Desired Characteristics

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting.
• Advanced financial analytics and modeling skills.
• Experience in Corporate FP&A or Investor Relations within a public company, including consolidation, external reporting, and communication.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and create effective communication for senior management.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to align financial strategies to business goals.
• Leadership experience with cross-functional collaboration and team motivation.
• Self-starter with strong execution skills.
• Familiarity with business process redesign and/or FLIGHT DECK. Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

Relocation Assistance Provided: No