CSA Controller- GE Aviation Operational Accounting

Job Description Summary

The Operational Controller for GE Engine Services (GEES), Customized Services Agreements (CSAs), is an integral leader within the Controllership team supporting the overall mission to provide timely, high quality financial reporting for use in the GEES CSA business.

This role drives accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate financial reporting and analysis for GE's portfolio of long-term engine services contracts (CSAs).

The Operational Controller for GE Engine Services (GEES), Customized Services Agreements (CSAs), is an integral leader within the Controllership team supporting the overall mission to provide timely, high quality financial reporting for use in the GEES CSA business.

This role drives accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate financial reporting and analysis for GE's portfolio of long-term engine services contracts (CSAs).

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with US GAAP in the consolidated financial statements
• Ensure integrity of financial reporting data via implementation and execution of controls within the CSA accounting team.
• Ensure accuracy of GE Aerospace's financial results by recognizing and preventing misrepresentation, concealment, or omission of information
• Support other accounting and auditing processes, including external and internal auditors and the statutory accounting team, as required.
• Responsible for general accounting and policy application & process administration for all cycles including revenue recognition, receivables / payables, intercompany, etc.
• Understand and interpret applicable Enterprise Standards, SOP and Process Maps to deliver globally competitive financial process / accounting services.
• Manage a team of senior professionals. Requires specialized depth and / or breadth of expertise within Accounting Operations, requiring strong commercial awareness and ability to influence the development of strategy within own area, including control of resources and policy formulation.
• Lead functional teams and projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and / or complexity. Communicates difficult concepts and may influence others' options on particular topics.

Needs to guide others to consider a different point of view, and appreciate downstream complexity of upstream decisions and actions.

Proactively drive communication of financial accounting topics across a wide group of stakeholders including CSA business operations, finance, FP&A, and risk.

This will include communicating difficult concepts, require influencing other's opinions on particular topics, and guiding others to consider different points of view.

Impact the team's ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives. Work is subject to functional policy objectives.

Regularly advise management in the function and / or in the business. Support decision making about important subjects. High or moderate levels of evaluative judgment are frequently required to achieve outcomes required.

Uses strong judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems. Able to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders.

Able to offer solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college
• 7 or more years of experience in GAAP accounting (technical and / or operational), including time as a supervisor
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects
• Proven capability to document, plan, market and execute multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to influence and drive results in a matrixed organization
• Ability to work non-standard business hours as required to support global commercial teams or quarter close
• Strong and verbal communication skills focused

Desired Characteristics

• CPA / CA or Masters of Accountancy or Business Administration
• Experience in accounting at a public company or public accounting firm
• Experience with GE Enterprise Standard Chart of Accounts, Hyperion Essbase, SAP, Oracle accounting / ERP systems, Microsoft Office products is preferred, but not required

GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE 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 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 : Yes