Finance Business Partner – Typhoon Future Capability

Job Title: Finance Business Partner – Typhoon Future Capability

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: £60,326 plus, depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the team to deliver superior business performance
• Providing financial insight and proposed actions to improve the underlying financial performance
• Partnering with the business to identify ways to maximise Return on Sales
• Integrating within the Bid teams to become a trusted Business Partner
• Understanding the broader economic climate and how it may impact the future profitability of bids and existing business
• Ensuring there is focus on maximising operating cash flows
• Working across the different elements of our Finance teams to optimise performance
• Driving process improvements, with particular focus on accuracy of inputs and delivery of cost opportunities

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Fully qualified in CIMA, ACA or ACCA

Desirable:

• Experience of people management and development
• Experience as a Finance Business Partner engaging with non-financial staff and providing decision support to stakeholders – demonstrating business acumen

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Typhoon Future Capability team:

This is an exciting role, providing business partner support to the Typhoon future capability project teams. These teams are responsible for increasing the capability of the Typhoon aircraft to, through programmes such as P4E (Phase 4 Enhancements) to integrate new radars and weapons and LTE (Long term Evolution) which is looking to upgrade the cockpit and the mission computer. These are capabilities that will help to keep Typhoon operationally relevant for the next few decades.

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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 6th November 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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