Senior Analyst – Rates

at  BAE Systems

Job Title: Senior Analyst – Rates
Location: Portsmouth. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £55,000+ depending on skills and experience

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• Good understanding of the role of rates in business planning processes, bid work, and cost recovery
• Customer service mindset
• Microsoft Excel Skills and proven experience in financial modelling
• Strength in analysis of data and provision of relevant management information to enable decision making
• Experience using ERP systems / Planning Analytics

Desirable:

• Experience of engaging with auditors and coordinating audit responses effectively
• Good knowledge of Single Source Contracting Regulations, in particular Allowable Cost Guidance
• Good understanding of MoD Accounting rules

• Timely and accurate submission of statutory supplier reports to the Regulator and supporting rates claims to the MoD
• Regular liaison and active engagement with the customer auditors to effectively co-ordinate audit activities
• High quality audit query responses, through effective collaboration with other parts of Finance and the wider business
• Calculation of robust and timely Actual, Forecast and Estimate Business Rates, underpinned by agreed Business assumptions, with a clear articulation of movements and impacts
• Support to Business Partners through ad-hoc scenario rates modelling
• Support to the Rates Capability Centre on its transformation journey, through sharing of learning, ongoing collaboration, delivery of change work packages and active engagement with other team members