Job Description Summary
The Plant CFO is the strategic financial partner to the Shop General Manager, responsible for the financial stewardship, operational rigor, and Lean-driven cost productivity of the MRO facility. This role commands technical accounting compliance and risk management while leading the finance team to optimize shop operating costs and drive operational excellence in a safety-first environment.
Job Description
Company Overview
GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) is a global leader in aerospace propulsion, services, and integrated systems. Currently, it has approximately 44,000 in-service commercial aircraft engines worldwide. With a century-long history of innovation and profound industry expertise, GE Aerospace is committed to inventing the future of flight, lifting people up, and bringing them home safely.
Site Overview
For 45 years in China, GE Aerospace has committed to developing and investing in China’s aviation industry with reliable, efficient, sustainable, and outstanding products and services. GE Aerospace and its joint venture CFM have served more than 60 airline customers in the Greater China Region, with over 7700 engines in service and nearly 5000 engines on order. We are devoted to the market’s quality growth propelled by technological innovation and digitalization. Together with our partners, we are shaping a sustainable future of flight that helps the industry reach its carbon-neutral goal for the benefit of us all tomorrow.
The Ideal Candidate
- Acts as the primary financial steward to the Board, ensuring robust corporate governance and alignment between JV partners. Responsibilities include delivering strategic rolling business plans, conducting high-stakes business case assessments, and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of equity transfers and dividend distribution to maximize shareholder value.
- Drives maximizing free cash flow by architecting intercompany chain transaction models and optimizing the end-to-end working capital cycle. To ensure liquidity through strategic management of high-value inventory, rigorous billing cycles, and counterparty risk assessment, while maintaining a culture of financial transparency.
- Operational financial leadership & Lean productivity: Lead Lean initiatives on the shop floor to reduce Turnaround Time (TAT), Direct Labor Productivity (DLP) and Shop Visit Cost ($/SV), directly impacting bottom-line profitability. Lead the CAPEX planning process for shop expansion, new technology or process adoption and tooling requisition.
- Directs strategic inventory oversight of high-value rotable assets, driving working capital efficiency and liquidity by aligning capital allocation with engine launch demands and fleet availability requirements to optimize overall shop asset liquidity.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis to provide transparency into shop floor performance, identifying root causes for cost overruns and implementing corrective actions.
- Controllership: commands technical accounting compliance (GE GAAP/SOP) and ensures 100% integrity in financial reporting.
- Risk Mitigation: establish and execute internal controls over shop operations (e.g., cycle counting, scrap management, and revenue recognition for CSA & T&M contracts).
- Act as the primary liaison for internal/external audits and regulatory compliance within the Aerospace sector.
- Management of a team responsible for activities that coordinate process and operations across the global supply chain network.
- Partner with the Customer team to review and optimize billing data accuracy and TAT for Time & Material (T&M) invoices.
- Manage a multi-disciplinary finance team (covering the full range of Controllership, Treasury, FP&A and Billing), fostering a culture of continuous improvement and talent development.
Required Qualifications
- Experience: 15+ years of progressive finance leadership, with 5+ years in a CFO or Finance Director role within Aviation MRO or Aerospace Manufacturing.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting; MBA or CPA/CMA/ACCA highly preferred.
- Technical Skills: Deep expertise in revenue recognition for long-term contracts and inventory valuation for high-value assets.
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead large, multi-disciplinary teams and manage competition-driven market factors.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes