Senior Cash & Liquidity Accountant

BAE Systems.; Abergele; Hybrid; GBP 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and security firm is seeking a Senior Cash and Liquidity Accountant in Wales. The role focuses on supervising payment runs, managing RPA processes, and providing audit support. Essential qualifications include being a part-qualified accountant, having strong numeracy skills, and intermediate to advanced Excel capabilities. The position offers competitive salary and benefits along with flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Discounted health and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Numeracy skills are essential for this accounting role.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel capabilities are required.
• Experience with various accounting systems and ERPs is important.

Responsibilities

• Supervise payment runs and ensure they are completed on time.
• Manage RPA processes used for payment generation.
• Audit support and document management as needed.

Skills

Numeracy

Intermediate Excel skills

Experience with accounting systems (SAP/Oracle)

Education

Part-Qualified Accountant

Job description

Job Title: Senior Cash and Liquidity Accountant

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

Salary: Circa £47,000 dependent upon skills and experience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Scheduling and supervising daily, weekly and monthly payment runs across a number of payment routes (SWIFT, BACS, Wire Transfer, etc.), ensuring that payment runs are made on time.
• Being responsible for the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) processes used for payment run generation.
• Flagging failed payments and tasking team members to investigate the reasons for failure before resubmission.
• Supervising the posting of daily cash transactions across a number of bank accounts.
• Flagging failed transactions and/or RPA transactions and tasking team members to investigate the reasons for failure before resubmission.
• Presenting DSUMs (daily stand‑up meetings) regularly to ensure that all tasks are covered within the team and that all targets will be met.
• Act as a point of contact for external stakeholders, offering advice on payments and cash postings and resolving queries or problems as they arise.
• Audit support (internal/external), document record management, authorising payments and acting as a bank account signatory, supporting process automation initiatives and identifying areas for continuous improvement.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Part‑Qualified Accountant (QBE will be considered if experience aligns with the role).
• High degree of numeracy.
• Intermediate to advanced level Excel skills.
• Experience with various accounting systems & ERPs (SAP/Oracle/LN…etc).

Desirable

• Experience of working in a customer service excellence environment.
• Extensive IT/Systems experience with a will to learn more.
• Ability to line‑manage and support other members of the team.

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 Cash and Liquidity team:

The successful candidate will work as part of the Cash & Liquidity Team to provide a first‑class service to all stakeholders. As such, they may be required to assist with the delivery of a range of treasury accounting activities. Tasks undertaken will vary from time to time to ensure the whole team experiences a broader range of activities and ERPs, at the same time ensuring that there is adequate cross‑training within the team to deliver an excellent service provision and business continuity.

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 our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition 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, at 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: 14th January 2026. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.