Senior Project Accountant

JR United Kingdom; Petersfield; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Accountant to deliver exceptional financial support within project accounting. This role involves building relationships, ensuring financial controls, and advising stakeholders to enhance project performance. The position offers flexibility, a competitive salary, and benefits including pensions and leave allowances, fostering an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Enhanced annual leave allowance

Company contributed Share Incentive Plan

Flexible working arrangements

Employee assistance programme

Cycle2work scheme

Employee discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Fully qualified Project Accountant.
• Experience in MoD Accounting requirements and Project Lifecycle Management.
• Knowledge in SAP and financial control frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and oversight to project accounting.
• Supervise financial systems in a dynamic environment.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and ensure financial governance.

Skills

Project Accounting experience

Knowledge of MoD Accounting/Contracting requirements

Detailed knowledge of Project Lifecycle Management (LCM) Process

Business Systems experience (SAP/Budget, Planning & Consolidation)

Finance governance requirements including financial control framework

Education

Fully qualified in Project Accounting

Job description

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

Salary: £50,000-£60,000 (dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Provision of experienced financial support to Project Accounting by building and maintaining effective relationships and ensuring robust financial challenge and control
• Provision of accurate financial information and advice to a project or group of projects on a timely basis to enable effective decision-making
• Provision of financial support and advice to customers and stakeholders
• Supervise, maintain and operate financial systems and processes in a constantly changing environment
• Resolve problems to ensure development/production timescales are met across projects
• Provide helpline to internal and external customers
• Provide cover for day-to-day aspects of manager’s role
• Facilitate decision-making using knowledge and experience
• Effective liaison with other functions involved in the projects
• Continual improvement of procedures and working practices
• Assume responsibility for key areas of processes
• Provide advice to customers and stakeholders
• Effectively police project control environment
• Input and approve journal vouchers
• Coaching non-finance employees on related matters

Your skills and experiences:

• Project Accounting experience – fully qualified
• Knowledge of MoD Accounting/Contracting requirements
• Detailed knowledge of Project Lifecycle Management (LCM) Process
• Business Systems experience (SAP/Budget, Planning & Consolidation)
• Finance governance requirements including financial control framework

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Project Finance team:

The Project Finance Team plays a critical role in delivering high-quality financial oversight and support to the broader programme. The team ensures strong financial governance by implementing effective processes, conducting detailed analysis of data, and maintaining clear communication across departments. A Senior Accountant is a key member of this team, responsible for providing expert financial input and project accounting support to enhance the performance and delivery of finance operations

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.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

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.