Job title: Finance Assurance Manager

Location: Various locations available - Farnborough, Guildford and Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting all Financial Assurance activities and associated maintenance, including the testing and assurance of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR)
• Preparing a monthly Control and Compliance Scorecard, distributing this to the Finance Leadership Team and identifying and implementing changes to ensure the scorecard continues to add value to the business
• Liaising with Internal Audit and being their point of contact for the business, taking the lead in all internal audit activities
• Monitoring and reporting the status of audit actions completion, with responsibility for ensuring actions are completed on time, relying on influencing skills with relevant stakeholders
• Supporting the Finance Governance Manager on other assurance and governance activities as relevant
• Other ad-hoc governance activities, as and when required by the business

Your skills and experiences:

• Finance Qualification (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
• Internal or External Audit Assurance experience
• Control’s assurance experience
• Strong financial control knowledge
• Experience of SAP (Desirable)

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 Financial Control Team:

You will play a key role in Financial Control for our BAE Systems Digital Intelligence business.

As a Finance Assurance Manager, you will support the Finance Governance Manager in ensuring the business has a robust financial control environment, focusing on relevant assurance activities, in order to be compliant with the requirements of the BAE Group Financial Control Framework and Finance Policies Manual.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to network and work with a wide variety of stakeholders and to be part of our exciting finance transformation project.

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.

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