Job Title: Senior Management Accountant
Location: Radway Green, Crewe
Salary: £53,928
What you’ll be doing:
* Monitoring financial performance of Site Operations cost base areas along with advising on regular reviews with senior stakeholders and helping provide independent and robust financial challenge
* Delivering accurate and consistent management reporting information for Site Operations area including hours and site stock reports
* Supporting the Cost Performance Lead in the 5-year Integrated Business Plan for all aspects of a manufacturing business, including support to the direct labour rate calculation, co-ordinating and challenging inputs with budget holders to generate labour and non-labour requirements
* Preparing monthly accruals, prepayments & account correction journals and raising purchase requisitions to support operation, engineering and production requirements
* Ensuring strong adherence to financial controls per finance policy manual and local procedures, including supporting the financial audit
* Supporting the business stakeholders to aid their understanding of financial information, including forecasting, key metric introduction analysis etc
* Promoting standardisation and continuous improvement processes including working with the wider FP&A team to share best practice
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
* Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
* Advanced Excel (i.e. Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, Data Manipulation)
* Ability to work with non-financial stakeholders, with strong influencing skills
Desirable:
* Experience partnering within a manufacturing or service-based industry
* Track record in the FP&A domain
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 Cost Performance team:
This team operates as part of the FP&A team within Munitions Finance, expertly managing costs across our Land UK sites, coordinating with functions like Project Management and Engineering. We support diverse stakeholders like Operations Managers, navigating evolving needs. Spanning three sites, we collaborate closely with project accountants and IDT Product Leads on manufacturing. This role oversees finance for small arms ammunition, a key position in a dynamic, growing environment with wide interactions.
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: 24th February 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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