Senior Finance Analyst - Customer & Business Development - (12 Months) - Fixed Term

Job Description

Job Title - Senior Finance Analyst - Customer & Business Development - (12 Months) - Fixed Term
Location: Derby
Working Pattern: Full Time / Fixed Term

Position Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Finance Analyst - Customer & Business Development - (12 Months) - Fixed Term – to join the Civil Customer and Business Development Team in Derby.

As a Finance Analyst you will be a member of a small team reporting into the regionally aligned Customer Finance Vice Presidents (VPs). The role will specifically focus on supporting the Customer team’s delivery of customer cash commitments of c.$10bn globally, commercial initiatives (including contract restructuring), and spare engine sales, along with forecasting and reporting to enable the business to predict and control these critical activities, whilst identifying and working on transformation initiatives, with a strong focus on digital enablement/Ai.

What you will be doing

- Working with the Finance VPs and Customer Regional Teams to prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly cash forecasts using the customer cash forecasting models – taking account of operational drivers (e.g. Engine Flying hours), contractual obligations (e.g. price and payment terms) and customer behaviour (e.g. expectations around use of credit notes, overdue debt, customer risk).

- Interfacing with members of the Customer Regional Teams around the world (including Commercial teams, Account Managers, Sales and VPs) to continuously understand, challenge and improve the accuracy of our customer cash and profit forecast.

- Provide coaching, education and support to ensure understanding and achievement of RR key priorities and enable the team to sell effectively.  Opportunities to join external customer meetings if desired.

- Supporting the further development and digitisation of key processes in partnership with stakeholders across Civil Finance.

- Liaising with the Engine Value Streams to ensure alignment on key Aftermarket and Spare engine related cash flows along with existing contract restructuring.

- Preparing clear and insightful presentation material for consumption by the Civil CFO, the Customer Leadership Team, Regional business teams and other key business stakeholders.

Position Qualifications :

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 and for this role we are looking for someone with

- Educated to degree level/CIMA/ACA or have equivalent professional experience.

- Highly numerate, a problem solver and possessing strong analytical and influencing skills.

- Proficient knowledge of MS Excel and experience using digital tools.

- Commercial experience would be highly beneficial.

- A strong team-worker with experience of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.

- Energy and drive – a self-starter, prepared to challenge the status quo and proactively identify/implement process improvements.

- Strong communicator – written & verbally, ensuring key salients are summarised with an ability to go deeper depending on the audience.

- Professional and flexible in approach and able to manage a varied workload with competing priorities, alongside working with a globally dispersed team.

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include employee support assistance, employee discounts and much more.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

People Leader – Kerri Rosling
Grade: Level SNBG (8-10)
Closing Date: 25th November 2026
For further information, please contact: Gauri Sood

Job Category

Finance
Posting Date

11 Nov 2026; 00:11

Posting End Date

25 Nov 2026