Financial Services Accountant

4 weeks ago


Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom BAE Systems (New) Full time

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is a leading provider of digital, cyber, and intelligence solutions. Our Financial Services business unit is responsible for delivering critical services to clients in the financial sector, helping them combat fraud, unauthorized trading, and money laundering, and meeting their regulatory compliance obligations.

As a Project Accountant within the Financial Performance team, you will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of timely, accurate, and insightful financial information to business and finance stakeholders. You will partner effectively with Business Unit Delivery leads and BU Finance Business Partners to ensure that accounting and reporting of project performance is efficient and effective.

This role will support our International Government business, which provides differentiated technology-based solutions that enable government organizations across the world to find and stop threats, manage risks, and operate securely and effectively in the digital world.

  • Act as a trusted advisor to the business, providing financial expertise and guidance to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
  • Project set-up – ensure appropriate consideration of IFRS15 revenue recognition in the set-up of all new projects and use of accounting structures to optimize financial information.
  • Project forecasting – work collaboratively with BU stakeholders to ensure the requirements for financial forecasting on projects are understood and delivered, providing robust challenge to the project Estimate to Complete to ensure accurate forecasting.
  • Orderbook – own the monthly orderbook reconciliation process and associated analysis of backlog and secured revenue profile.
  • Project trading – ensure there is an appropriate process for using project forecasts to inform the trading of project revenue and gross margin with review and validation with business stakeholders.
  • Reporting and analysis – ensure insightful financial reporting of project performance using the SSR and other reporting mechanisms as appropriate.
  • Management and Project Accounting – manage month-end process to create project and business area P&L, BS, and Cash Flow and present this information to leaders.
  • Management Reporting – review first draft financial/management reporting for use with business stakeholders.
  • Project Admin – liaise with project control to assist with any queries.
  • Budgeting/Forecasting – provide support to Finance Business Partners in terms of historic financials and inputting into financial models.
  • Cash flow and Management – oversee interface into Shared Services team to ensure bills raised in a timely manner; work with business stakeholders to drive cash collection.
  • Financial Control – take ownership and responsibility for reviewing/approving reconciliations including order book, project, and business area financial reconciliations (e.g., working capital, SSR).
  • Other ad-hoc tasks as required.

Qualifications: ACCA/CIMA/ACA/CPA Qualified.

Location: This role will be hybrid and based out of our Canberra or Melbourne offices.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence: We are embracing Hybrid Working, which means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office, or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate, and create together, even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively and enhance well-being.



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