Finance Business Partner – FCAS AP Digital

Job Title: Finance Business Partner – FCAS AP Digital

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: £61,110 + Depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing direction and assumptions to the FP&A Capability Centres and wider business to generate in year and longer-term forecasts for digital investments. Using the insights gained from in-year performance analysis, you will recommend updates to assumptions where necessary
• Development of business cases and investment propositions to support revenue expansion, margin growth and cash conversion. You will need to carefully consider the appropriate funding route and ensure the correct accounting treatment is followed.
• Reviewing performance of approved investments. You will be required to constructively challenge the business and make recommendations to course-correct, driving improvement from current position.
• Generating project narratives/story and slides required for customer, supplier and senior management reviews.
• Management of bid proposals, ensuring the required funding is secured, and associated activities such as currency and tax reviews as appropriate
• Support business with generation of pricing strategies, order book management and LCM compliance
• Review inputs for customer and supplier reviews, and support business or functional improvement programmes

Your skills and experiences:

• Accounting and Financial Expertise – Qualified Accountant with experience in financial planning, forecasting, and applying appropriate accounting treatments
• Strategic and Analytical Thinking – Ability to analyze performance, update assumptions, and recommend improvements to optimize investments and business outcomes
• Business Case Development – Proficiency in creating investment propositions, evaluating funding routes, and driving revenue, margin, and cash flow improvements
• Performance Review and Improvement – Skills in assessing approved investments, constructively challenging assumptions, and implementing corrective actions to achieve targets
• Effective Communication and Stakeholder Engagement – Expertise in developing clear project narratives, presentations, and reports for senior management, customers, and suppliers
• Bid Management and Pricing Strategy – Experience in managing bid proposals, securing funding, and supporting pricing strategies while ensuring compliance with processes

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 Finance Business Partnering – FCAS Team:

Working within the Finance Business Partnering – FCAS team, you’ll drive the financial strategy behind critical digital investments that power the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme and the 2035 vision. In a fast-paced, high-stakes environment, you’ll ensure strong capital planning, develop business cases, and optimize the performance of key investments.

You’ll collaborate closely with the Senior Finance Business Partner, the Project Accounting Capability Centre, and cross-functional teams, managing competing priorities to deliver value and support a major growth area of the business.

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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. 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: 10th February 2025

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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