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This is a rare and exciting opportunity to recruit an executive into our Customer Support & Training (CS&T) Finance Organisation. 

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Provide effective business & financial leadership, strategic direction, governance, financial control & business support for CS&T.
• Work with the Business Area to deliver financial commitments.

Key Responsibility Areas

• As a key member of the CS&T leadership team, influence & provide challenge to the CS&T team to deliver improved project performance & working capital management
• Proactively manage or mitigate the potential risks to achievement of CS&T targets & influence to realise the opportunities to deliver the targets set.
• Responsible for the delivery of high quality management accounts and financial reporting into business areas, including forecasts and identifying risks & opportunities.
• Assist in developing business cases & funding requests associated with investment required in support of strategic opportunities, including development of IOS capability and other business development activity in CS&T.
• Responsible for bid activity in support of CS&T (including CS&T input onto major aircraft programmes), working collaboratively alongside other critical functions. Deliver high quality bid output leading to success in Business Winning
• Support interface into customer community and other external parties as required.
• Full accountability for the business plan for CS&T. Provision of the annual budget & growth options to include financial scenario planning, sensitivity analysis and support for resource planning.
• Financial responsibility for spares & repairs bid process including costing & pricing for spares in accordance with LH (UK) Commercial and Financial policies.
• Responsibility for effective business governance & compliance with statutory requirements, International Accounting Standards, Leonardo Directives & LHD Finance Policies. Support for internal & external audits as required.
• Lead financial education of non-finance staff operating within CS&T, to ensure an appropriate level of financial awareness & that good financial decision are taken.
• Responsible for the development of CS&T finance team through coaching & education, ensuring that policies are adhered to & that skills / knowledge are developed. 

Skills, Qualifications & Knowledge Required

• Excellent business acumen and ability to place financial analysis in the context of business needs.
• Strong ability to influence others outside of finance to realise opportunities and deliver targets set.
• Proactively manage or mitigate the potential risks & opportunities to achievement business success in bids and current programmes.
• Objectively challenge & appraise investments to determine their validity & whether appropriate value will be returned.
• Willingness and drive to see through change.
• Motivator both self and others.
• Team player, who can both lead and support as circumstances require, in cross functional (matrix) organisation.
• Ability to understand supporting systems & processes and be able to generate continuous improvement in process under their control.
• Good Excel skills essential.
• Relevant Professional Accountancy qualification.