Finance Manager

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Glascoed, South Wales

Salary: Up to £60,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing and guiding a diverse team of project accountants to produce high-quality, consistent financial forecasts and encouraging knowledge-sharing and professional growth while ensuring financial data is thorough, accurate, and meaningful
• Driving effective and consistent finance processes by fostering a culture of collaboration, accuracy, and continuous improvement and strengthening financial controls to enhance transparency, accountability, and compliance
• Ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting to equip stakeholders with clear insights and reliable forecasts, supporting informed decision-making and strategic planning
• Developing a Finance Capability Centre to enhance business performance by providing financial expertise across the project lifecycle, supporting successful and sustainable project delivery
• Delivering insightful financial analysis and business intelligence to support well-informed decisions alongside identifying and addressing risks while creating opportunities to strengthen financial performance and ensure responsible working capital management
• Leading the production of quarterly forecasts and annual budgets (IBP) through collaboration, careful analysis, and constructive discussion
• Partnering with Finance Business Partners and IPTs to support well-rounded cost estimation, risk management, and opportunity identification

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Qualified member of a recognised professional accounting body (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Experience in Project Finance, such as forecasting, financial planning, or working on projects
• Proven relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate, influence, and engage effectively with stakeholders

Desirable:

• Experience in a similar or related industry
• Familiarity with MRP/ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and financial tools for reporting, forecasting, and analysis (e.g., SAP BPC / SAC, Cognos, Tableau)
• Experience in managing a team and providing coaching or mentoring to team members

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 Finance team:

BAE Systems Land (UK) supports the Armed Forces with the most advanced munitions capabilities in the world. The business unit is now at a pivotal stage in its growth journey and is looking for exceptional individuals to help deliver flawless operational excellence. With major facilities in Cheshire, Monmouthshire and Tyne and Wear our Land UK business employs over 1,500 people and is currently undergoing significant investment in all of its manufacturing facilities.

Reporting to the Head of Project Finance, this role sits within the Project Finance team, a dynamic and integral part of the business. With exposure to exciting and multi-faceted projects within Artillery, Tanks and Mortar, you’ll collaborate with Finance Business Partners, Project Managers, Portfolio Leads and more, influencing key decisions and driving business performance. This is an opportunity to lead process improvements, enhance collaboration, and upskill teams, making a real impact in a fast-moving, high-profile area.

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: 8th April 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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