Date Posted:

2025-01-22

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Harlow, Gloucester, Manchester or Broughton.

Hybrid Working: This role requires flexibility with occasional travel required across the above sites but mostly remote working.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager  (C&I, Space and ISR), the successful candidate will manage and develop a small team of qualified and part qualified accountants within the business pillars. The Finance Manager will be responsible for providing high quality business partnering and accurate, actionable financial analysis and insight to the business team and to Finance leaders across Raytheon UK and US.

The individual will be relied upon to provide proactive strategic input and leadership across the Mission Area’s. The individual will ensure compliance with financial governance and policy requirements; monthly business forecasting including recoveries and overhead management; AOP and 5 year strategic planning; project accounting (EACs); investment; balance sheet reviews; cash and foreign exchange management.

 Responsibilities:

Partner and act as the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Business Team and its Functional leaders, ensuring that finance is at the heart of the businessResponsible for financial management, reporting and forecasting on key metrics including but not limited to: Bookings, Sales, Profit, Cash, Functional Budgets and New business investmentUnderstand and communicate the link between programme and financial performance across the business providing insight into the numbers for business leads and key stakeholders helping shape decision making and business strategySupport the business in establishing Annual Operating Plans (AOP) and Long-Range Plans (LRP) ensuring interlock with functionsSupport new business proposals for Gate Reviews including: pricing strategy, basis-of-estimate generation; foreign exchange management; risk and opportunities management; investment and contract negotiation support.Management of Quarterly Estimate at Completion (EAC) processes including high profile fixed price programmes with complex commercial and financial arrangementsEnsure financial processes are delivered on time and well understood by the business and other key stakeholders including Risk and Opportunity Management, Earned Value Management, ForecastingLine manage and develop team members to maintain a high performing business partner teamAct as the “financial conscience” of the business and ensure Business and Financial Policy adherenceChampion best practice and look to improve systems and processes.Work closely with the wider Finance Team and collaborate on cross functional improvement projects.Actively promote the importance of accuracy, predictability and value add analysis across all finance deliverables, promoting where possible the importance of financial data and information

Candidate Requirements:
Essential Skills:

Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA) with relevant commercial experience in a similar defence or complex contracting environmentPrevious experience in a business partnering role, interfacing and conducting business with various functional disciplines across a matrix organisationResilience to work in a fast-paced organisation with ability to manage competing priorities.Commercially astute and adept at strategic planningExcellent communication and stakeholder management skillsFinancial leadership experience or related experienceProven ability to actively drive resolution on critical business challenges and key issuesStrong financial analytical skills and attention to detailExcellent systems skills – SAP, COGNOS Enterprise Planning and Business Intelligence, Power BIExperience in programme environment with knowledge of accounting for long term contracts, including Estimate at CompletionExcellent presentation skills. Comfortable with data and detail, but having the ability to extract high level messages to support business decisionsCurrent holder of or eligibility to obtain security clearance

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