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Senior Project Accountant

1 month ago

Crawley, United Kingdom Thales Full time
Location: Reading, United KingdomThales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Senior Project Accountant

Green Park, Reading - Flexible on location

Are you a finance project professional with high levels of accuracy and diligence? Are you inquisitive and enjoy a challenge? Do you enjoy working on projects and helping the business to achieve the desired results? Got your interest… look no further

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Accountant to join project Marshall, a major Air Traffic Management (ATM) delivery programme to the UK MOD. The scope of Thales delivery covers the provision of integrated surveillance assets including static, deployed and other radar systems, communications equipment, network capability and centralised ATM capability.

What the role has to offer:

Working in a team delivering a £250m programme into MoD

Opportunity to engage with multiple stakeholders across the project, business line and joint venture

Opportunity to work in a fast paced, exciting and dynamic environment

Ability to drive continuous improvement

Key responsibilities :

Ensure that forecast orders, sales and invoicing are updated on a regular basis including identifying R&O’s monthly

Assist in the completion of the Program Dashboards and CSR

Monitor project expenditure and delivery with a tight focus on cash milestones.

Support Program Managers to understand actual costs incurred

Support Programme Managers to ensure costs to completion estimates and estimates at completion (EAC) for programmes are correctly reflected

Proactive in identifying cost savings

Monitor and report on risks associated with Program

Play an active part in the reconciliation of project costs within oracle and manage monthly reconciliations

Support the Head of Finance in preparation of annual budgets (MYB) and forecasts

Consolidate all Marshall subcontracts into Anaplan and understand the movements in their local EAC’s

Participate and challenge in bid process and support commercial on claims

Support the closure of the project

About You

Ideally, you’ll:

Be educated to degree level (preferably in a finance, or related discipline) and hold a professional accounting qualification - desirable not essential

Have proven experience of Project Accounting within an engineering/manufacturing/construction/defence background

Have a good understanding of commercial and financial aspects of the business

Be comfortable working with and proposing solutions to complex issues

Have the ability to present and explain the implication of complex business issues

Be able to interact with non-finance managers and individuals at all levels in the business

Be flexible to work in a changing environment

Be highly proficient in Excel

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment,if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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