**Job Title:** Head of Project Accounting****
**Location:** Barrow-in-Furness. 3 days per week on-site****
**Salary:** £90,000+ depending on skills and experience, plus executive level
benefits including car allowance and bonus****
**What you’ll be doing:**
* Lead project accounting operations, ensuring accurate financial planning, reporting, and analysis to support business performance
* Drive modernisation initiatives, fostering a data-driven culture and implementing process improvements aligned with strategic goals
* Oversee financial controls, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and maintaining a culture of accountability across the team
* Collaborate with senior stakeholders to influence decision-making and align financial strategies with business objectives
* Provide bid support by coordinating financial inputs and planning for upcoming opportunities
* Inspire and develop a high-performing team, promoting continuous improvement and professional growth
* Opportunity to lead and modernise the Project Accounting function, driving significant improvements in financial performance and efficiency across high-value projects
* Manage a sizable, talented team, fostering professional growth and collaboration while shaping the future of the finance function
* Be part of a dynamic organisation offering progression into senior leadership roles within the finance and wider business landscape
**Your skills and experiences:**
* Qualified accountant with a minimum of 10 years of post-qualification experience in project accounting or financial planning
* Proven leadership experience managing sizable teams, with the ability to inspire and motivate others
* Strong expertise in financial analysis, forecasting, and long-term contract management
* Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
* Experience driving process improvements and implementing digital solutions, preferably with tools like SAP BPC
* Familiarity with regulatory standards (GAAPIFRS) and governance principles across industry sectors
**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 Project Accounting team:**
The Head of Project Accounting is a pivotal leadership role within the
Submarines Business Unit, responsible for managing a team of approximately 40
members to deliver exceptional financial planning, analysis, and insights for
projects generating £2.9 billion in annual revenue. This role combines
strategic vision and hands-on leadership to modernise finance practices,
implement innovative solutions, and ensure the delivery of robust project
accounting services across the organisation. The successful candidate will
collaborate with senior stakeholders, champion efficiency, and drive
transformational change to enhance the company’s financial performance and
capabilities. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines
roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
**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:** 20th January 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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