ICAEW’s Insights speaks to Rolls Royce finance business partner George Acquah to discover some of the lessons he’s learned during the pandemic.
George Acquah is a Finance Business Partner in Civil Ops Purchasing at Rolls Royce. Born and raised in London, Acquah spent several years as a professional musician, then decided to retrain as a chartered accountant.
Acquah trained with PwC in the East Midlands and he was with the firm for six years in total. Then he joined Rolls Royce, where he’s been in several different roles: first internal audit, then a chief accountant role in the Marine Division, followed by an assignment in France as group controller for a JV-owned group of companies, and now a finance business partner for purchasing in a few of the entities in Rolls Royce civil aerospace.