Senior FP&A Accountant

at  BAE Systems

Job title: Senior FP&A Accountant
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: £54,793+ (Depending on skills and experience)

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW) – AAT will not be accepted
• Excellent MS Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Passionate about improvements and maintaining a continuous improvement culture
• Strong communication skills and confident presenting to a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Organised and pro-active self-starter
• Experience of process improvement and data visualisation

Desirable:

• Previous line management experience
• Competent with TM1 IBM Planning Analytics
• Experience of working with Power BI/Power Pivot/Power Query

• You will have a fantastic opportunity to drive change and improvement and have an influence on how we effectively present key analytics
• You will lead the day-to-day financial reporting processes end to end: capturing requirements, creating and communicating plans, reviewing inputs, providing synthesis and issuing reporting
• You will manage a team of 2 FP&A professional staff and proactively support and lead on their development needs
• You are supporting the Monthly Financial Reporting including key risk & opportunity rationalisation, consolidation and ensuring timely submission of required inputs into group reporting system
• You will be the key support to Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and providing challenge to forecast submissions for year-end KPI’s and cashflow
• You are leading the Business Risk & Opportunity management process to ensure the external risk/opportunity landscape is understood within E&I and reviewed effectively with Leadership team
• You will drive key improvements across the team through data visualisation, looking to adopt new reporting dashboards and promoting a continuous improvement mindset
• You will also support with ad hoc queries from the Finance Directors and FP&A Financial Controller