Job Title: Finance Business Partner
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: £63,900
What you’ll be doing:
* You will be playing a key role in the delivery team focusing on the existing contractual requirements for the FCAS programme, providing insights and challenge to deliver strong performance
* Driving financial performance through the CSR (Contract Status Report), Monthly Forecast and Business Planning processes, ensuring expectations are clearly articulated and agreed, and outputs are challenged, considered and communicated appropriately
* This role will require identifying, reporting and driving to resolution key opportunities, risks and associated mitigation actions affecting contract performance to ensure best for programme value and margin expansion
* Ensure delivery of robust customer reporting to support UK MoD financial planning
* You will be working collaboratively with PM, commercial, estimating and partner companies to prepare bid submissions, and engaging with the customer to secure funding in a timely manner
* Deputising for the FCAS Delivery Finance Business Partner as required
Your skills and experiences:
* Degree or equivalent and qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)
* Experience in business partnering, bid proposals, project accounting and financial planning & reporting
* Strategic mind set with a proven ability to challenge, influence and advocate change in a highly complex and ambiguous context
* Experience of customer engagement and working closely with external partners, interacting both face to face and as virtual teams
* Strong leadership and management skills, along with the ability to quickly adapt in a fast paced and changing environment
* Experience in establishing and driving programme performance
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.
FCAS Delivery team:
You will report to the FCAS Delivery Finance Business Partner and will be working with a team of Finance Business Partners supported by the Project Finance Capability Centre. You will work collaboratively with a network of cross functional contacts within BAE Systems, partner companies and the customer community. This is a senior business partnering role that will place you at the heart of the leadership team, where the scope of the role extends across all business activity, to lead and influence the business and finance teams to drive growth and superior financial performance. This role will give the successful applicant an unparalleled opportunity to acquire knowledge of the UK and BAE Systems strategy and programme to develop the next generation international combat air system and will also provide you with the opportunity to shape the future ways of working within the both the project team and the Finance function.
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 in