MBDA is seeking a Finance Officer to join our team in Stevenage. You will have the opportunity to apply financial control to specific contracts within programmes finance, taking responsibility for all financial aspects and add value in a challenging and constantly evolving area of the business, you will be providing financial support to a number of our key support programmes.
Job Title: Finance Officer
Salary: Circa £38,000 dependent on experience
Location: Stevenage
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
What we can offer you:
Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave. Enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments.
Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…
Training and Development: Excellent career progression, training and career development opportunities
The opportunity:
As an integral part of the team, you will provide Finance and Project Management with effective, timely, and accurate financial information while acting as a key business partner to the wider project team. This role is an integral part of the Programmes Finance Team providing finance and project management with effective, timely and accurate financial information and support whilst acting as a key business partner within a designated project team.
As such, this role will allow you to gain the ability to proactively manage aspects of project financial management and gain, or build, on your experience of working in a world leading multi-national company.
- With the following main specific responsibilities: -
- To help deliver and control KPI's for responsible contracts. Report actual and forecast achievement against its financial targets, including risks and opportunities
- Support and management to the preparation of multi-year business plan and annual budgets Ensure that relevant project staff are clear of their financial objectives
- Financial management of long-term contracts including: bi-annual Estimate at Completion preparation, revenue & margin trading, intercompany trading, cash and FX management, customer reporting/interfacing
- Support to wider finance team in activities such as contract closure, balance sheet maintenance and other ad hoc activities
- Ensuring data integrity in financial tools
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Intercompany trading
The MBDA Programmes Finance Community is a well-integrated network that values collaboration and learning from each other's experiences. Our community is dynamic, forward-thinking, and hardworking, while also making sure to prioritise building relationships both within and outside of immediate teams.
We encourage personal growth and leadership in important financial aspects of international business, such as Inter Company Trading management, Forex management, IFRS reporting, and more.
This role also offers the exciting opportunity to make a positive impact in a dynamic and ever-changing area of the business. In the future, there is potential to explore various roles within the broader finance function, including treasury, accounting, cost base, and new business development.
What we're looking for from you:
- AAT or equivalent qualification preferred but not essential
- Ability to build strong and productive working relationships within multi discipline and multi-national project and Finance teams, whilst maintaining independence and integrity is essential
- Knowledge and experience of Finance IT tools: MS Excel (required) SAP R/3, SAP BW (desirable)
- Desire and enthusiasm to learn and to develop skills and understanding long term contract financial management.
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