Senior Finance Business Partner

BAE Systems; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense company in the UK is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to guide investments and bids aligned with strategic objectives. This role requires strong project finance experience, communication skills, and the ability to manage financial controls effectively. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with experience in stakeholder management. This position offers a competitive salary and a range of employee benefits.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Green car scheme

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Experience of Project Finance and strong understanding of financial forecasting, budgeting and reporting processes.
• Skilled in building productive stakeholder relationships, communicating with impact, and applying critical thinking.
• Knowledge of relevant accounting standards (IFRS / GAAP) and IFRS15 revenue recognition criteria.
• Experience in maximising MRPs/ERPs and financial reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders to ensure investments align with strategic objectives.
• Support bidding activity and provide financial advice for business development.
• Ownership of financial forecasts and ensure sound financial practices.
• Manage financial controls to maintain account integrity.

Skills

Project Finance understanding

Stakeholder relationship building

Knowledge of IFRS / GAAP

Experience with SAP and financial tools

Financial controls best practices

Qualified member of professional accounting body

Education

Qualified member of a professional accounting body (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Title: Senior Finance Business Partner - Investments

Location: Glascoed, Washington, Radway Green

Salary: Up to £68,000 (dependent on skills and experience)

What you'll be doing:

• Influences the team and key stakeholders to ensure investment and bids are aligned with our strategic objectives, helping to guide business decisions.
• Key Finance contact to support all bidding activity (Internal RBAs, Customer negotiation (where required) Investment appraisals).
• Management of a Business Partner covering both Internal and External Investments.
• Provide financial advice, and support for business development including financial modelling and challenge business development activities in terms of alignment to business strategy, realism of opportunities and associated investment and the likelihood and level of financial returns versus risk.
• Ownership of the PV, G&A, Pre-contract and Bid Forecasts, providing strategic overlay, challenge and financial stewardship to relevant stakeholders in support of achieving financial metrics.
• Ensure that bids are financially sound, covering correct charging rates, foreign exchange assumptions and cash flow forecasts.
• Ensure that the portfolio operates an appropriate and effective set of financial controls and ensure the overall integrity of the accounts (including CSRs, IBP, reporting etc.) adhering to the Financial Policies Manual at all times. Being the key contact for the IDT with external and internal auditors.

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience of Project Finance and strong understanding of financial forecasting, budgeting and reporting processes.
• Skilled in building productive stakeholder relationships, communicating with impact, and applying critical thinking to drive collaboration and informed decision-making.
• Knowledge of relevant accounting standards (IFRS / GAAP), incl. IFRS15 revenue recognition criteria.
• Knowledge of how to maximise the use of MRPs/ERPs (e.g., SAP) and financial reporting, forecasting and analytical tools.
• Drives best practice in establishing and applying financial controls.
• Qualified member professional accounting body (ACA, ACCA, CIMA).

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 Finance Munitions Team:

Reporting to the Head of Finance - Munitions, this Senior Finance Business Partner position plays a critical role in supporting the investments & bids within the Munitions business, ensuring robust financial modelling, challenge and guidance to drive strategic decision making. Acting as a trusted advisor to the business this role ensures investments are evaluated with accuracy, transparency and alignment to the business's strategic objectives.

The Senior Finance Business Partner is responsible for growing and delivering the financial returns by identifying and driving improvements to business performance. They provide wider leadership and challenge across the team to embed a value add culture including a focus on potential and future investments.

The role requires an inspirational individual with strong leadership skills, responsible for managing teams directly, influencing through strong internal networks within finance and collaboration with other functions. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Project Finance, IDT leads and the Senior Leadership Team.

Experience of managing a large operation in a complex environment, including leading and developing teams and driving change to improve business processes will be a key asset for this role.

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.

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: 11th November 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.