Senior FP&A Accountant

Job Description

Job title: Senior FP&A 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:  £54,793+ (Depending on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• You will have a fantastic opportunity to drive change and improvement and have an influence on how we effectively present key analytics
• You will lead the day-to-day financial reporting processes end to end: capturing requirements, creating and communicating plans, reviewing inputs, providing synthesis and issuing reporting
• You will manage a team of 2 FP&A professional staff and proactively support and lead on their development needs
• You are supporting the Monthly Financial Reporting including key risk & opportunity rationalisation, consolidation and ensuring timely submission of required inputs into group reporting system
• You will be the key support to Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and providing challenge to forecast submissions for year-end KPI’s and cashflow
• You are leading the Business Risk & Opportunity management process to ensure the external risk/opportunity landscape is understood within E&I and reviewed effectively with Leadership team
• You will drive key improvements across the team through data visualisation, looking to adopt new reporting dashboards and promoting a continuous improvement mindset
• You will also support with ad hoc queries from the Finance Directors and FP&A Financial Controller

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW) – AAT will not be accepted
• Excellent MS Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Passionate about improvements and maintaining a continuous improvement culture
• Strong communication skills and confident presenting to a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Organised and pro-active self-starter
• Experience of process improvement and data visualisation

Desirable:

• Previous line management experience
• Competent with TM1 IBM Planning Analytics
• Experience of working with Power BI/Power Pivot/Power Query

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 External FP&A (Business performance) Team:

Within the finance function, Financial Planning and Analysis teams are responsible for leading the delivery of high quality and forward-looking financial analysis and insights to the business. Bringing together FP&A experts from across the UK footprint, they are the primary points of contact into business Finance Directors and provide crucial insights on the key business and financial performance.

The FP&A team work alongside other finance capabilities to drive the enhancement of key business processes, working towards establishing data driven and digitally enabled performance reporting to meet the future business needs. As a team, we are on a journey of moving towards the implementation of innovative visuals and continually seek to adopt new ways of working to enable proactive insights. This role plays a key part in enabling and supporting this

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: 30^th October 2024

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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