Lead Finance Specialist - Income Statement

Job Description SummaryWhether 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 operating key income statement reporting processes at GE Aerospace primarily supporting the Aerospace Income Statement Leader and Executive Director - FP&A with opportunities for broader cross-functional leadership support. The Income Statement Reporting Analyst will provide key support for consolidating income statement actuals reporting and analysis including monthly close, quarterly close and earnings releases. This role will also be responsible for driving master data governance and quality of income statement data for GE Aerospace, inclusive of externally disclosed non-GAAP adjusted financial KPIs.
At least quarterly travel to Cincinnati will be required, if not already co-located with the team.Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own and maintain actuals consolidation and reporting processes for monthly close, quarter close and earnings releases. Refresh standard reporting and analytical tools applicable to each reporting period that support detailed financial analysis and operational insights.
• Drive standard earnings release processes to support externally disclosed non-GAAP adjusted financial KPIs, partnering with Investor Relations and HQ FP&A Leadership to ensure alignment of externally disclosed income statement KPIs across all documents.
• Responsible for non-financial KPI reporting process and supporting analytics for metrics such as orders units, shipments, spares rates, installed base and others as defined by leadership. Partner with Controllership to ensure alignment of FP&A and Controllership non-financial KPI reporting.
• Implement standard financial reporting outputs, leveraging tools such as Workiva to define standard reporting materials while implementing underlying data consolidation processes to support consistent, timely and high-quality outputs. Partner with Aerospace Income Statement Reporting Leader to align standard financial reporting to business requirements.
• Partner with Investor Relations and Controllership to develop standard reporting, validation, and analytical tools for external disclosures.
• Support verification of non-GAAP adjusted financials included in all externally disclosed materials, such as press release, earnings slides, 10Q/K, 8K, proxy statement and investor presentations.
• Partner with Aerospace FP&A leadership team to develop ad hoc & complex analysis on an as-needed basis.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree. Minimum 2 years of finance experience.
•  Financial modeling skills.
• Proficient use of financial systems (e.g. Hyperion, Oracle) and analysis tools including Microsoft Office (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Desired Characteristics

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting.
• Advanced financial analytics/modeling skills.
• Prior FP&A role, ideally with Corporate HQ consolidation and external reporting experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities. Self-starter/team player.
• Strong executor. 
• Experience with business process redesign and/or LEAN. 
• Strong oral and written communication skills

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