Senior Reporting Accountant

Job title: Senior Reporting Accountant

Location: Frimley, Glascoed or Preston

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa 50k per annum

What you’ll be doing:

Participate in preparation for and support to Audit (Internal & External)

Leading and supporting process review and improvement where Financial Control operate or assure processes/controls

Supporting the applicable financial controls as required, including support to process design

Supporting financial transaction processing that is accurate, efficient and in accordance with the financial control requirements, including intervention in support of query resolution

Supervise transactional review activity, applying judgement where required, to provide process assurance (data accuracy, data quality, compliance, etc)

Preparing and presenting accurate reporting information for a variety of stakeholders, including regular provision of bespoke information in order to drive outcomes

Plan and deliver the co-ordination of data collection from multiple stakeholders

Provision of support to internal and external customers in the application of the established policies, processes and procedures

Support management review sessions as required

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Excellent wide ranging business knowledge gained from education and practical experience, with accounting experience, as a fully-qualified accountant

Excellent use of standard business software packages (e.g. Microsoft Office, etc), with knowledge of specific software required (e.g. HFM, SAP, Cadency, Blackline etc)

Demonstrable experience in process improvement

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 Financial Control Team:

You will be a member of the Financial Control job family and will deliver ongoing support across Financial Control Capability Centre (Centrally, across Sector(s) and to Individual Business Units), as well as the wider Finance function.

The Senior Reporting Accountant will typically deliver specific duties on behalf of the Financial Control function, to customers in the UK.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to develop your career within BAE Systems due to exposure gained across multiple business areas.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 11th June 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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