Finance Senior Business Partner

6 months ago


Reading, United Kingdom AWE Full time

What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?

For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent - Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

We need an AWEsome Finance Senior Business Partner to join our Finance Business Team here at AWE Nuclear Security Research.

Location: Our offices are based in Berkshire, RG7 4PR between Reading and Basingstoke with onsite parking.

Salary Range: Starts at £44,550 this is very much open to negotiation.

What’s exciting is:
Each day is different for a Finance Senior Business Partner, you’ll never be bored You’ll work with different and very interesting people across the organisation and what you do every day will make a difference to keeping our nation safe as we continue our vital mission. We are currently embarking on one of the biggest and most exciting projects in Europe and you will play a BIG part in this.

A typical day for a Finance Senior Business Partner could look like this:
Building great relationships in complex environments

Leading numerous teams to balance resources to enable financial information and insight to be provided to drive business performance

Delivering improvements in financial awareness and acumen across AWE

Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight and analysis to the Business/Budget Holders on their financial plans and programmes.

We would like you to have experience of:

- Interfacing and reporting effectively with key stakeholders across and outside the business
- A business leadership role
- Leading, managing and integrating different financial teams
- Influencing sound business strategies to deliver savings and efficiencies
- Dealing with complex business issues.
- Stakeholder management skills with ability to work collegiately at all levels
- Proficiency with a cost management tools / business systems
- Great rapport building and listening skills
- Working in a finance environment
- Developing and mentoring a team
- Having operated in a similar or related role, ideally in Defence/MOD/ Nuclear or Regulated

You may not tick every box and that is fine with us, attracting the right people is just as important as having technical experience in every aspect of our roles so we’d still love to hear from you.

Why work for us?

AWE has been voted one of the best 25 big companies to work for this year. We offer a great package of benefits and career development as well as:

- Every other Friday off
- Pension contributions between 9% to 13%

Take a look at our benefits on our careers site

Applications via: AWE Careers

Security Clearance (funded by the AWE) is required in order to start which takes several months to complete.
- DVSubjectsInformationLeaflet.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Important things you need to know:

- Interviews will be scheduled during working hours
- Interviews will be 90 minutes on TEAMS and will include a 5-to-10-minute presentation
- Flexible and hybrid

For more information about the role or the recruitment journey, contact me (Sunflower) at:
(Sorry agencies - recruitment is managed by our inhouse TAPs)

LI-SM



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