Senior Project Accountant

Lockheed Martin; Helensburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4xFlex working pattern

Hybrid working

Job summary

Lockheed Martin UK Strategic Systems is seeking a Senior Project Accountant to join a fast-paced defence-focused team. The role combines budgeting, cost analysis, and financial reporting across programmes, with a hybrid pattern (4 day week Mon–Thu) and on-site work typically 2 days per week.

You will coordinate multiple cost analyses, support monthly/quarterly reporting, and ensure costs align with established procedures while enabling timely invoicing and cost certification for customers.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Project Accounting role.
• Able to apply cost analysis and cost management principles.
• Able to effectively handle multiple tasks/priorities simultaneously.
• Able to work without appreciable direction.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills - liaison with programme personnel at a senior management level.

Responsibilities

• Compile and review budgets using actual performance, previous figures, estimated revenue and expense data.
• Coordinate cost analyses, cost control systems, data collection and reporting to maintain cost accounting.
• Ensure costs are allocated according to procedures and support formal reporting to Line of Business.
• Analyse financial information and prepare financial reports; support month-end close.
• Monitor programme expenditures and Earned Value Management (EVM) performance and highlight trends to the team.
• Assist invoicing, cost certificates and billing processes to customers.

Skills

Project accounting

Cost analysis

Multitasking

Interpersonal communication

Tools

SAP

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Accountant to join Lockheed Martin UK Strategic Systems. Lockheed Martin are one of the world’s largest defence companies and working here will give you the opportunity to work on interesting programmes that support national security.

This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern offering a 4 day working week Mon – Thu and hybrid working (typically 2 days a week onsite)

In this role you will gain experience and take responsibility for a number of areas including, but not limited to:

• Compilation and review of budgets using actual performance, previous budget figures, estimated revenue, expense reports, and other data sources to control funds and provide for proper financial administration.
• Coordinating multiple financial cost analyses functions, including cost allocation, setting up cost control systems, collecting data, controlling costs and preparing reports that maintain the company's cost accounting system.
• Ensuring that costs are allocated according to established procedures
• Support of formal reporting to Line of Business for both long term and short term financial planning.
• Analysis of financial information and preparation of financial reports.
• Supporting project completion on schedule following established procedures, schedules, and work plans.
• Assisting in the preparation of the monthly/quarterly financial charts.
• Labour analysis and detailed breakdowns of booking levels, demand analysis and spend profiles to ensure staffing levels are in line with programme need and site-wide resource availability, tracking of other direct costs.
• Assisting the program team and financial management in monitoring and tracking program expenditures and earned value management (EVM) performance, highlight issues/concerns/trends to the program team.
• Interacting with a variety of program and financial management personnel and advising on conformance with company and program processes and procedures.
• Perform key month-end reporting tasks such as: cost transfer journals, supplier advances, accruals, new order recognition, cash reconciliation, revenue recognition, OSEC reporting
• Support and completion of invoicing and monthly cost certificates to facilitate billing to customer base.
• Risk and opportunity analysis against output.

The successful candidate must achieve the appropriate level (SC) of security clearance. More details can be found here.

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Proven experience in a Project Accounting role.
• Able to apply cost analysis and cost management principles
• Able to effectively handle multiple tasks/priorities simultaneously
• Able to work without appreciable direction.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills - liaison/interaction with programme personnel at a senior management level.

Desired Skills

• Enterprise Application Software - SAP
• Defence industry background
• MOD Projects
• Earned Value Management, including processes and procedures
• Knowledge of rate structures and their construction.