Costbase Senior Accountant- Fully Qualified

BAE Systems; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is seeking a Costbase Senior Accountant-Fully Qualified to manage budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for the team. The role requires a fully qualified accountant (ICAEW, ACCA, ACA, or CIMA) with advanced Excel skills and proven management accounts experience. The position offers hybrid working arrangements, with occasional office-based work in Sheffield or Barrow-in-Furness. Competitive salary and benefits, including pension schemes and health plans, are available.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Discounted health and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Must be a fully qualified accountant; AAT is not accepted.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel functions is essential.
• Experience with costing and pricing calculations is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead on actualisation, forecasting, and budgeting of cost base.
• Deliver Fixed Asset reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Partner with Budget Holders for timely reporting and analysis.

Skills

Fully qualified accountant (ICAEW, ACCA, ACA, or CIMA essential)

Advanced Excel proficiency

Proven experience in management accounts

Confident stakeholder engagement skills

SAP experience

Job description

Job Description - Costbase Senior Accountant- Fully Qualified (00132804)

Costbase Senior Accountant- Fully Qualified - 00132804

Job title: Costbase Senior Accountant-Fully Qualified

Location: Barrow-in-Furness or Sheffield – Hybrid working with 2/3 days in the office and if Sheffield based once a month in Barrow minimum.

Salary: £50,000+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead on actualisation, forecasting, and budgeting of the cost base for QBR and IBP processes
• Deliver comprehensive Fixed Asset reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance
• Partner with Budget Holders to provide timely and insightful reporting, including P&L, variance analysis , and identification of risks and opportunities
• Prepare detailed cost base cash forecasts to support strategic planning
• Own the calculation of critical rates including costing rates, throughput, and utilisation
• Accurately input forecast and budget data into the SAP ERP system
• Support the wider team through ad-hoc analysis and cross-cover, meeting both internal and external customer needs

Your skills and experiences:

• Fully qualified accountant (ICAEW, ACCA, ACA, or CIMA essential – AAT not accepted)
• Advanced Excel proficiency, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, SUMIF, filters, and data manipulation
• Proven experience in management accounts, with a considerable focus on costing and pricing rate calculations
• Confident stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to challenge , influence, and build effective working relationships across all levels
• Highly desirable to have SAP experience

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 Weapon Systems UK Team:

As part of BAE Systems Platforms and Services sector, Weapon Systems (UK) designs, develops, manufactures and supports artillery systems, naval guns, and provides engineering capability to the wider BAE Systems business. Our global reach brings our customers a depth and breadth of expertise that meet critical needs in the air, on land, and at sea. Our mission strives for us to be our customer’s trusted and affordable weapons provider, delivering enhanced effects on target and complete mission solutions. We are looking for innovation, commitment and drive to help define the future of Weapon Systems capabilities.

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.

Closing Date: 19th December 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.