Finance Manager - Cost Controlling

MBDA; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence organisation in the UK seeks a qualified Finance Manager to oversee financial activities and ensure successful delivery of business performance. This role involves collaboration with various teams, managing a finance officer, and driving projects to completion. The ideal candidate will hold an ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualification, possess strong communication skills, and bring an inquisitive mindset. Flexible working arrangements and generous benefits are offered.

Benefits

Company Bonus up to 21%

Pension contributions up to 14%

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced parental leave

Subsidised meals and free parking

Qualifications

• Proven ability in running multiple activities and driving projects to successful completion.
• Experience of understanding and maintaining robust financial models.

Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly closing process including flash reporting.
• Collaborate on performance reporting to management.
• Engage with stakeholders for budgeting and planning processes.

Skills

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Experience managing multiple work streams

Communication skills

French language skills

Education

ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent

Job description

Are you a qualified accountant wishing to embed yourself in a Finance Manager role to influence and inspire those around you?

Salary: Circe £65,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3days 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: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• 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

The opportunity:

To lead and collaborate with a business unit in supporting the business across a diverse and varied set of activities. You will have management responsibility for one finance officer, with an aim of inspiring, developing and maintaining high levels of performance to enable successful delivery to our customers.

There is a breadth of duties, covering retrospective reporting and forward looking planning, that include but are not limited to:

• Leading on the monthly closing process including flash reporting on working day 2
• Collaboration on performance reporting to UK Management and Finance teams
• Building and maintaining trust and credibility with internal and external stakeholders
• Focus on in-year outlook process; capturing business risks and opportunities for Operating and Capital expenditure
• Liaison with French counterparts to provide consolidated group reporting for shared topics such as Group applications and cross company recharging
• Engagement with wider UK and international cost base teams to share ideas, best practice and cohesion between similar functions.
• Participate in cross directorate steering groups for infrastructure Capital investment planning and reporting; including Estimates at Completion
• Lead on business planning and support to other UK business units for allocation of directly attributable costs

There is opportunity to be involved in the shaping of our future cost controlling process and methodology by feeding into the requirements for our IMPACT transformation programme to S4/HANA. You will have the freedom to challenge the status quo.

You will influence and contribute to our budgeting and our 5 year planning process for UK cost base and Capital. This includes interfacing with a breadth of stakeholders to determine resourcing requirements and liaison with senior budget holders to advocate being "battle ready" by using a commercial understanding to support a balanced, pragmatic outcome for your business unit.

As a qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) accountant, your experience of managing multiple work streams with prioritisation, assessment and communication of these are critical to ensure effective delivery and enable a "no surprises" approach.

What we're looking for from you:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with an understanding of IFRS accounting
• An inquisitive mind set with courage to challenge the status quo and ask "why" to further develop their understanding of tasks and processes
• Proven ability in running multiple activities and driving projects and tasks to successful completion. with communication skills including awareness of communication styles required for all levels within the business; French language skills would be advantageous
• Act as a role model for the wider cost base team through living our MBDA values
• Experience of understanding and maintaining robust financial models and high volume data analysis

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

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