Senior Management Accountant - FP&A

Job Description

Job title: Senior Management Accountant - FP&A

Location: Scotstoun, Glasgow; We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £50,500 depending on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

  • Contributing to the period end, forecasting and IBP processes, ensuring all deliverables to Line of Business / Sector / Group are made in line with expected timescale
  • Working with the functional budget holders to challenge and influence thinking to manage and control headcount and spend to agreed targets
  • Taking responsibility for key areas of FP&A processes, ensuring compliance to the Finance Policies Manual
  • Supporting continual improvement and standardisation of procedures and working practices by producing, promoting, and monitoring supporting process instructions
  • Providing support to Cost Performance improvement and transformation initiatives initiated through the FP&A capability centre
  • Generating new ideas for evolving delivery of Cost Performance information into the business, embracing modern working practices, systems, tools, and techniques
  • Coaching and developing others within the Cost Performance team
  • Maintaining a key focus on analysis and providing financial insights to enable and enhance business decision making

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Fully qualified accountant; ACCA or CIMA
  • Strong MS office skills - excel
  • Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels
  • Budget management

Desirable:

  • Use of SAP or Planning Analytics
  • Experience of dashboard reporting tools - i.e. Power BI or Tableau
  • Prior experience working for a large organisation

Benefits:

You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Cost Performance team:

As a Senior Management Accountant, you'll be working alongside a small dynamic team reporting directly to the Finance Manager, you'll dive into stimulating discussions surrounding costs, budgets, forecasts, and overheads. With a focus on internal stakeholders including the Financial Planning & Analysis leadership team, internal finance, and the Naval Ships function, your impact will be felt across the organisation. Attending review meetings with budget holders and senior leadership, shaping strategic decisions that drive the business forward. And as we propel into the future, you'll be part of a modernisation journey harnessing data analytics to enhance efficiency and empower smarter decisions. BAE Systems will also offer you the opportunity to develop and further your career.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 8th May 2024 - Interviews for this position will take place week commencing 20th May.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.