Assistant Project Accountant

Job Description

Job Title: Assistant Project Accountant

Location: Bristol – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Provision of financial support & advice to customers and stakeholders
• Supervise, maintain and operate financial systems and processes in a constantly changing environment
• Resolve problems to ensure development/production timescales are met across projects
• Provide helpline to internal and external customers
• Effective liaison with other functions involved in the projects
• Analysing data, updating spreadsheets, graphs, and reporting packs

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Relevant information knowledge or experience on major capital investment programmes
• Significant experience of working with stakeholders across multiple functions and grade structures

Desirable:

• Previous experience of undertaking data analysis/interpretation of financial information would be advantageous
• Working towards an AAT qualification

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 Cost Control team:

The Alliance Cost team is responsible for providing assured costing data for each of the parties which will be capable of supporting annual and quarterly costing exercises for the UK premier defence programme working on complex data to tight deadlines. You will support the Cost Control team by ensuring costs are identified, managed, and controlled and aids the production of financial reporting requirements.

Within this role there will be opportunities for further training and career progression. 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 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: 18th September 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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