Junior Finance Supervisor (Americas)

Job Description

Job Description

Purpose of the role:

Support the VP Finance (Americas) in steering and controlling the business by contributing to group projects, collaborating with financial stakeholders and local finance supervisors, and executing entity-specific projects. The role is responsible for all financial matters for one or two smaller international entities within the Americas. This position is intended for an early-career finance professional with strong ambition to grow and develop. The individual will gain broad exposure to a wide range of financial projects, duties, and responsibilities, with mentoring from the VP Finance (Americas) and support from other senior professionals to encourage rapid learning and development. This position can be in office at one of our repair stations located in Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Atlanta or Miami.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

Support the VP Finance (Americas) in steering and controlling the business:

• Support the VP Finance (Americas) in business steering and control activities. The role is an active member of the Americas finance team and the broader SK AeroSafety Group finance organization.
• Develop and maintain reporting that gives management and staff clearer insight into business performance, including sales, production, margin analysis, product development, and customer development.
• Support the VP Finance (Americas) in restructuring, improving, and streamlining business and financial processes across the organizations.
• Temporarily assume financial responsibility for local entities when local finance supervisors are absent due to leave or illness.
• Assist the VP Finance (Americas) with larger investment and business proposals, including capital expenditures, business expansion, capability development, and equipment replacement.
• Support specific financial accounting and reconciliation projects within Americas entities and, where applicable, the Shared Service Center.

Collaborate with and support the broader Americas finance organization:

Build strong professional relationships with local Americas Finance Supervisors to improve collaboration across the region and support specific Americas Corporate Control projects.

Develop effective working relationships with the financial Shared Service Center (SSC) to improve collaboration and financial accounting processes between the SSC and Americas finance departments, while supporting specific Americas SSC projects.

Build productive relationships with Corporate Control to strengthen collaboration with Americas finance departments and support specific Americas Corporate Control projects.

Financial and legal reporting for one or two smaller entities in the Americas

Deliver periodic financial reports, including:

• Monthly management accounts, including P&L, balance sheet, and cost details.
• Forecast reports, prepared twice per year.
• Annual operational plans and budgets.
• Prepare ad hoc reports that support effective business management, including:
• Work-in-progress reports to help production prioritize and monitor workload.
• TAT (Turnaround Times) reports to support production performance reviews and process improvement.
• Oversee legal reporting requirements, including:
• Supervise the audit process and preparation of annual accounts.
• Supervise and ensure compliance with tax-related reporting requirements.

ERP/IT and process improvement:

• Oversee processes within the integrated ERP system.
• Resolve system-related issues across all areas of the business.
• Provide training where recurring issues arise or new modules are implemented.
• Identify opportunities to automate business processes and expand current IT systems.
• Develop process improvements that increase cost efficiency, strengthen information insights, and improve performance.
• Participate in group business reporting projects and requests.
• Contribute, where appropriate, to expanding and improving the use of Power BI reporting.
• Support the distribution, maintenance, and adoption of automated reports across the group.

Profile of the candidate:

• 2+ years of experience working in a financial role. - Essential
• BA/BS degree in Accounting or Finance. - Essential          
• Strong Microsoft office skills, particularly Excel. - Essential
  (reporting, formulae, pivot tables, PBI etc.)           
• Experience with integrated ERP systems. - Essential
• Strong communication skills. - Essential
• Proactive and confident. - Essential
• (This role requires regular interaction with production departments and other management team members. The Finance Supervisor must be able to represent and protect the company’s financial interests.)
• Positive drive, self-motivated. - Essential
• (This role has broad responsibilities across the organization and requires a positive drive to engage others. Because the position involves limited direct supervision; the individual must be self-motivated and able to work independently.)

Supervisory competencies required:

Each supervisor within the SK AeroSafety Group is evaluated based on a range of supervisorial competencies. The competencies required are listed below:

Impact & Influencing:
The ability to persuade and convince others to support or agree with an idea, issue or position.

Edge / sharp-mindedness:

Having the ability to face reality and to champion tough decisions; taking the.

initiative, having an impact, daring to make choices (even if not all the data are available) and keeping an eye on the ball.

Building relationships:

SK AeroSafety Group leaders build and maintain relationships with networks of people who may be able to assist the business. This is based on an assessment of who may be an important contact and a genuine interest in their ideas and concerns.

Commercial savvy / commercial effectiveness:

SK AeroSafety Group leaders have good insight into commercial situations. They make customers and their needs the primary focus of their actions, anticipating, recognizing and meeting those needs. They are also capable negotiators.

Ownership:

The attitude to take full responsibility for successfully accomplishing work

objectives and delivering results as if it were its own company.

Financial awareness:
Continuous awareness of the activities that will generate a profitable and/or cost-conscious outcome. Has a focus on the “bottom line” or operating results.

Problem solving:

The ability to recognize a possible problem in an early stage, understand it by breaking it apart in smaller pieces in a logical, step-by-step way and to generate an effective solution.

Passion & Energy:

Being passionate about creating growth and wealth for the company; having energy, energizing others and making others energize themselves; showing a desire to reach results.

Entrepreneurial drive:

SK AeroSafety Group leaders are relentlessly driven to achieve results. Based on their insights in clients and markets, they spot opportunities and take risks to make things happen. They measure and monitor performance. They are willing to take risks, based on their conviction that this will move the business forward.

Strategic thinking:

SK AeroSafety leaders focus on how to create future growth: they oversee the business context in which they operate and understand the real issues and developments. They develop plans and strategies covering all areas, focusing on achieving long-term goals. They build a vision on well-tested assumptions and translate this into a plan that covers all areas and focuses on the strategic goal.

Creativeness & resourcefulness:

Looking at situations and questions from different angles; letting go of the usual frames of reference and arriving at alternative, original and innovative ideas and solutions.

Safety:

Acts in accordance with rules and prescriptions concerning working conditions and takes protection from harm for the job into account.

Team Leadership:

SK AeroSafety Group have a desire to lead others toward both achieving business goals. They’re flexible leaders that are building the organizations future capabilities. They inspire others by communicating an energizing and compelling vision and they stimulate others to higher performance by investing time, money and energy in developing others.

Communicating effectively:

The ability to communicate information and ideas in a clear, meaningful,

appropriate and timely manner in both written and verbal formats.

Change catalyst:

SK AeroSafety Group leaders act as a change catalyst, alerting and energizing others toward new and better ways of operating. They ensure that the strategy is understood, and that people think about accomplishing this, about removing internal obstacles to achieve the goals. At the higher levels, this involves designing and leading a change process, including taking the necessary unfavorable measures.

About the organization:

The SK AeroSafety group ( is a group of companies that specializes in the repair and overhaul of aircraft safety components. The group has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Dubai and Malaysia, and Australia with 300+ employees and has an annual revenue more than $100m.The group services customers worldwide and has an autonomous growth of around 20% each year in the past 5 years.

Company’s vision is: We are recognized by our customers for best-in-class turnaround times and outstanding customer service experience.

Company’s mission is: Keeping aviation safe.

Company’s core values are: One Team, Positivity, Reliability, Growth and Pride.

It is any employee’s task to uphold these core values at any time.