2027 Entry Level - Finance Business Partner

Textron•Wichita, KS

About The Position

As a Textron employee, you’ll take on meaningful work from day one—contributing to real projects and collaborating with experienced team members across the business. This entry-level opportunity is designed to help you build your skills, gain exposure across functions, and grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and development opportunities. The Finance Business Partner serves as a key business analyst and liaison between business operations and finance by applying financial insight in performing projections and analysis of results to support the overall goals of Textron Aviation. This position fosters communication and knowledge between the business and finance serving as an advocate for both organizations. In addition, the Finance Business Partner enhances the organizations' awareness and understanding of operating performance information and financial scenario planning as well as the impact of management's decisions on these financial results.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required in: Accounting, Finance, or Other related fields
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong sense of accountability and integrity
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Action oriented and seizes opportunities
Effectively utilizes time and organizes priorities well
Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills required - ability to create formulas (V-lookups, sumif, etc.) and utilize PivotTables. Experience using Microsoft Word, and Outlook also required
SAP experience
Applicants must be authorized to work lawfully in the U.S. for Textron Aviation at the time of making application, and visa sponsorship is not available for this position, including for F-1 students and J-1 exchange visitors who will need employment sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Hyperion/SmartView experience a plus

Responsibilities

Participate in forecast, monthly/quarterly business reporting, variance analysis, and month-end close activities for the organizations they support
Develop weekly cash forecast and track actual cash receipts
Work through cross-functional relationships within the organization and facilitate communication between the functions within finance to ensure accurate and predictive financial information is communicated throughout the organization
Understand key business unit operating metrics/drivers and measure performance to established metrics
Responsible for forecast accuracy and monitoring countermeasures.
Assist in the development of annual operating plans and long-range plans and capital planning processes
Potentially participate in monthly evaluations of inventory balance, developing report for Operations on inventory trends and inventory turns, and subject to monthly evaluations of excess and obsolete inventory (E&O)
Perform special projects and ad-hoc financial reporting as required
Builds and maintains constructive relationships with Operations, Program Management, Engineering & Supply Chain