Senior Finance Manager – Business Performance

Job Description

Job title: Senior Finance Manager – Business Performance

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: £63,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Through the IBP process, annual budgeting and regular monthly reporting and forecasting, analyse, review and challenge data from the business area teams
• Lead the business performance team to drive quality, consistent and insightful reporting
• Summarise business performance reporting information & present to the Finance Director, the E&I Leadership team and other business stakeholders
• Support the business stakeholders to aid their understanding of financial information
• Contribute to modernisation initiatives to drive standardisation, efficiency and effectiveness
• Drive continuous improvement processes including working with the wider FP&A team to share best practice

Your skills and experiences:

• A member of a UK recognised professional accountancy body with at least 5 years post qualifying experience and a strong track record in the FP&A domain Passionate about improvements and maintaining a continuous improvement culture
• Broad experience of finance management and planning, coupled with excellent planning and process management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to establish efficient and effective working relationships and to influence key stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
• Ability to lead, inspire and motivate the direct team of reports and other wider finance colleagues involved in FP&A-related activities

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 Supportability team:

We currently have a vacancy for a Senior Finance Manager – Business Performance within the Europe & International (E&I) Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team.

Within the finance function, Financial Planning and Analysis teams are responsible for leading the delivery of high quality and forward looking financial analysis and insights to the business. Bringing together FP&A experts from across the UK footprint, they are the primary points of contact into business Finance Directors and provide crucial insights on the key business and financial performance. Alongside this the FP&A team work alongside other finance capabilities to drive the enhancement of key business processes, working towards establishing data driven and digitally enabled performance reporting to meet the future business needs.

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.”

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: 13th December 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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