Financial Reporting Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Financial Reporting Manager

Location: Glascoed, Wales. Preston or Frimley, Surrey will also be considered, with occasional travel to Glascoed approximately once per month.   We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £62,000 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and develop a high-performing finance team, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement
• Oversee financial statement preparation and submission, ensuring IFRS and company policy compliance
• Manage monthly financial reporting via Hyperion, providing insights and recommendations to senior management
• Coordinate external audits, resolving queries and ensuring smooth communication with auditors
• Review statutory accounts, liaising with Group Reporting to ensure timely and accurate submissions
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, including ONS surveys and other filings
• Drive process improvements and system optimisation to enhance efficiency and reporting
• Mentor and support team members through training, coaching, and professional development

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience in statutory account preparation or auditing
• Proven leadership skills with a track record of managing and developing teams
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships
• Professional qualification essential (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CPA)

Desirable:

• Experience at a Big 4 accounting firm is advantageous

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Finance Team:

As a Financial Reporting Manager at BAE Systems, you will be at the heart of a dynamic and high-performing finance team, playing a pivotal role in overseeing financial reporting, IFRS compliance, and monthly reporting through Hyperion. You’ll lead a team of six talented finance professionals, driving a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Your leadership will ensure the timely preparation of accurate statutory accounts and smooth coordination with external auditors. Working closely with Group Reporting, you will champion financial compliance and effective management, empowering your team to deliver outstanding results and make a tangible impact within the organisation. You’ll support key modernisation projects, lead the team in optimising services through ongoing process reviews, and collaborate across the Finance Function for a broad overview of the Sectors and UK-based Inc. businesses.

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: 9th April 2025

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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