Project Accountant – 12 month FTC

BAE Systems; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Project Accountant, where you will play a crucial role in delivering financial excellence for a major defense program. This exciting opportunity allows you to work with diverse teams, ensuring robust financial governance and reporting. You will be empowered to drive continuous improvement in financial processes while enjoying a flexible working environment. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this organization values your unique contributions and offers a comprehensive benefits package, including a competitive pension scheme and health plans. Don't miss your chance to make a real difference in a dynamic industry!

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible discounted health benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience in project finance environments and financial management.
• Part Qualified Accountant with strong MS Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver core project accounting deliverables for the Dreadnought Programme.
• Support project teams with financial commitments and reporting.

Skills

Part Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA)

Accounting and financial management experience

MS Excel

Education

Part Qualified Accountant

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Title: Project Accountant – 12-month FTC

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

Salary: Up to £45,000 depending on skills and experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Responsible for the delivery of all core project accounting deliverables for a major element of the Dreadnought Programme whilst ensuring effective financial challenge, governance and support to the programme teams
• Working with the Dreadnought Project Management Organisation (PMO) lead for your area to deliver robust forecasts into the Monthly Management Reporting (MMR) process and supporting the project teams to ensure financial commitments are met.
• Working with the Project to ensure quarterly Contract Status Reports are produced, reflecting an accurate financial representation of the programme.
• Continuous improvement of financial processes/practices & governance activities
• Working with the internal and external stakeholders including the MOD, Project and Commercial teams, Supply Chain teams and Central Finance regularly
  
  

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

• Part Qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA) or equivalent
• Accounting and financial management experience, working in a variety of roles including working within a project finance environment
• Thorough knowledge of MS Excel and other MS packages
  
  

Desirable

• Understanding of business and financial modelling experience
• Experience of influencing across functions and hierarchies
• Experience within a similar Defence environment/role would be highly advantageous
  
  

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 Dreadnought Project Accounting Team

The Dreadnought Project Accounting Centre provides the opportunity to work across the Dreadnought programme in support of your career development. This exciting finance role provides the opportunity to manage various financial aspects of the programmes, with the aim that you experience all core project accounting roles and processes. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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: 9th May 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.