Finance Manager

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Job Title: Finance Manager

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 £60,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the project accounting team and supporting monthly programme reviews


• Overseeing the customer budgetary reporting process


• Working with functional stakeholders to deliver quality project financial information for internal and customer budgetary processes


• Submitting Single Source Regulations Office submissions


• Managing the relationship with the Defence and Equipment Support customer team


• Adhering to the relevant elements of Naval Ships processes and applying Finance Policies and Financial Controls


• Providing support to the Finance Business Partner to leverage opportunity and mitigate risk

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Fully qualified accountant, ACCA, CIMA, or ACA


• High level of commercial/business acumen


• Ability influence, challenge, and engage stakeholder at various levels

Desirable:

• Previous line management experience


• Long-term contracting experience within defence or a similar comparable industry


• Prior use of systems such as SAP or similar

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 Naval Ships Type 26 Finance team:

The Naval Ships Finance Function aims to provide value-adding, fully integrated business support to project delivery, promoting continuous improvement to inform business decisions and achieve financial objectives. This role supports the delivery of the high-value, business-critical Type 26 contract. The Finance Manager will serve as a key interface with the Type 26 Programme Management team, responsible for inputting essential financial information. This hands-on role offers an exciting opportunity to gain broad financial and project management experience on our largest customer-funded delivery programme, with opportunities for development and progression within a growing, stable, long-term programme.

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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 13th November 2024 – Interviews for this position will take place week commencing 25th November.

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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