Job title: Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Accountant

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

Salary: £49,135 - £54,098 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Acting as the main point of contact for the monthly Chief Operating Officer (COO) FP&A activities and taking a lead role in ensuring the COO Finance Director and Finance team are fully supported, with all key Financial Reporting deadlines being achieved
  
• Leading the preparation of Financial briefing packs for senior review meetings at COO level (Monthly Forecast Review, Management Committee Reviews, Quarterly Board Review, Quarterly Finance Review, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) (5-10 yr. budgets). Familiarity with key underlying business issues will be required to be developed
  
• Leading the collation, analysis and review of Half Year and Year End statutory reporting information and variances, including robust commentaries
  
• Leading the COO Integrated Business Plan (IBP) process (5-10 yr. budgeting), including preparation of reporting packs, schedules, and timetables, as well as reviewing of IBP data and submissions, challenging and querying submissions and consolidation for reviews
  
• As part of the wider Air FP&A team, collaborating with other integration leads to drive process improvements and efficiencies, supporting requirements to Air and helping embed standardisation of FP&A information across teams
  
• Leading the monthly & quarterly Balance Sheet review, ensuring timely and accurate completion of Balance Sheet review and update of all actions
• You’ll also have people manager responsibilities in this role

Your skills and experiences:

• CIMA, ACA or ACCA – Qualified
• A level of business acumen, with focus on improvements
• Advanced Excel skills and understanding of accounting standards
• Prior experience in a reporting role would be preferred
• Experience of TM1/Planning Analytics (Reporting tool) and Hyperion (HFM) desirable but not essential

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 Chief Operating Officer (COO) team:

BAES Systems Air Sector is a through-life business which delivers advanced military air capability both to our UK and many overseas customers. The mission of the COO is to enable and continuously improve the Air Sector’s foundations and deliver next generation capability, developing our markets. Key Financial areas within COO include Investment decisions and Costbase management.

Reporting to the Senior Reporting Finance Manager, as a Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Accountant, based within the COO FP&A team, you will be supporting the COO Finance Director, COO Business Partners and Finance team as their COO FP&A lead on all aspects of financial performance. This includes monthly reporting and financial analysis, Integrated Business Plan submissions, inputs for Board presentations, half year and full year statutory reporting, support to internal and external audit.

This role will provide you with an exciting and diverse opportunity, in an ever-changing environment, where you will be integrated into a team that looks to maximise value within the business. You will interact with senior leaders and be challenged to think and operate differently, ‘challenging the norm’ being an everyday occurrence.

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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