Accountant

Thales; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence technology company in Glasgow seeks a Project Accountant to manage financial aspects of various projects. The role involves monitoring project expenditure, updating financial forecasts, and supporting Programme Managers. The ideal candidate should have a strong accounting background, proficient in project accounting and able to work with ERP systems, particularly Oracle. Opportunities for career advancement and flexible working arrangements are offered.

Benefits

Market leading training and development

Flexibility in working hours

Opportunities for internal promotions

Qualifications

• Proven project accounting experience within defence, aerospace or engineering.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement and support Programme Managers.
• Experience with monitoring financial and project expenditure.

Responsibilities

• Ensure forecast orders, sales, and invoicing are regularly updated.
• Monitor and control projects balance sheet and working capital.
• Support with preparation of annual budgets and forecasts.

Skills

Understanding of commercial and financial aspects

Project accounting experience

Ability to work with ambiguity

Present complex business issues

Interact with non-finance managers

Interrogation of Oracle ERP system

Flexibility in changing environments

Proficient in Excel

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Degree in finance or related discipline

Tools

Oracle ERP

Job description

Project Accountant

Glasgow

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!

What the role has to offer

• Great opportunity to gain experience and further your career in Finance
• Work in an experienced finance team across a broad portfolio of projects within the OME UK business with a robust order backlog that supports sustainable growth of 10% CAGR across the next 5 years
• Opportunity to enhance the financial control environment within span of control and to ensure that best practice ways of working are adopted
• Opportunity to engage with multiple stakeholders across the project, functions and other parts of Thales UK
• Opportunity to work in a fast paced, exciting and dynamic environment
• Ability to drive continuous improvement

Our Opportunity

Thales UK currently have an exciting opportunity for Project Accountant to join OME UK. The OME business includes a wide and varied portfolio of products and projects including complex product development, systems integration, product manufacturing and service support projects. The role will support objectives of the overall Optronics & Missile Electronics (OME UK) business but will take responsibility for a portfolio of projects, primarily across the Sea, Air and Land sectors. Where appropriate the Project Accountant will become the primary financial contact for those projects and become a key member of those project delivery teams. On larger and more complex projects the Project Accountant will support the relevant Business Controller.

About the role

• 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 CSRs
• Monitor project expenditure and delivery with a tight focus on cash milestones.
• Support Programme 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
• Monitor, report and control projects balance sheet and working capital.
• Play an active part in the reconciliation of project costs within Oracle and manage monthly reconciliations
• Undertake key activities as part of the monthly close activities, ensuring the accuracy of results.
• Monitor and maintain data quality, consistency and integrity across primary systems within span of control.
• Maintain and enhance the financial control environment, ensuring that all areas of the Balance sheet within span of control are accurate, robustly challenged and recoverable.
• Support the relevant sector Business Controllers in preparation of annual budgets (MYB) and forecasts
• Participate as required in bid process and support commercial on claims / additional tasks

About You

The following skills and experience will set you up for success in this role:

• A good understanding of commercial and financial aspects of the business
• Proven project accounting experience within defence, aerospace, engineering or an equivalent sector.
• Be comfortable working with ambiguity and proposing solutions to complex issues
• Be able 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 able to interrogate the Oracle ERP system in order to ensure accuracy of reporting and query resolution.
• Be flexible to work in a changing environment
• Hold a professional accounting qualification / part qualified status
• Ideally educated to degree level (preferably in a finance, or related discipline) and/or have proven experience of Project Accounting within an engineering/manufacturing background
• Proficient in Excel.
• Oracle experience would be advantageous

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.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

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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