Job title: Assistant Financial Accountant

Location: Glascoed

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

Salary:£28,000+ DOE

What you’ll be doing:

Prepare Balance Sheet Reconciliations and resolve any reconciling items arising from your own and colleagues reconciliations.

Supporting data input on various accounting systems and the monthly financial close process

Preparation of monthly journals including the calculation of accruals and prepayments.

Process payroll files into the accounting systems and manage employee benefit schemes

Developing good understanding of the various business units including Timetables, Chart of Accounts, Service Level Agreements, Accounting Systems, processes, systems and business.

Developing strong relationships with your finance contacts, through regular interaction ensuring a high level of service is maintained.

Supporting internal and external audit requests and various other compliance activities

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Qualified or studying towards AAT or equivalent (ideally level 4 or working towards level 4) would consider level 3 qualified

Intermediate level Excel skills (e.g. Pivot tables, vlookup)

Desirable:

Payroll experience

Knowledge of SAP & Oracle

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 Finance team:

You will be joining a team working together towards common goals. This will include aspects around day to day finance tasks. Joining a close knit team will expose you to a great company culture and strong working relationships.

There are also opportunities for progression and study support to help drive 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: 25th July 2023

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.

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