Assistant Accountant - Planning Analytics (Project Accounting)

Assistant Accountant - Planning Analytics (Project Accounting)

Would you like to work within the Finance Planning Analytics team within the Air Sector, as part of the Chief Operating Officer UK Capability Centre? We currently have a vacancy for an Assistant Accountant - Planning Analytics at our site in Warton.

As an Assistant Accountant, you will be part of a team that manages and delivers the costbase/project accounting data and toolset that underpins the financial reporting output within BAE Finance. You will also be central to the successful delivery of the future reporting developments included in the Finance Modernisation programme.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to expand both your finance and IT knowledge while working with finance system team and various stakeholders including Information Management & Technology and project accounting reporting leads.

Your main responsibilities as an Assistant Accountant - Planning Analytics will involve:

• Ensuring that planning analytics automated contract status review is updated in line with AIR finance reporting requirements
• Systems/interfaces include: -

Infor LN

FS SAP

MS SAP

TM1 FIRST (TM1 reporting tool)

• Ensuring that all data loaded is current and accurate
• Providing support to the business by answering queries on data loads
• Managing the access for all automated contract status review users
• Maintaining of internal structures in Planning Analytics
• Logging all systems issues appropriately
• Maintaining manual single contract status review, consolidated contract status review and Sales and Marketing trading plan templates
• Ensuring all work instructions are current and compliant with AIR policy
• Providing support and backup to other members of the team

Your skills and qualifications:

Part Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA or relevant equivalent

Knowledge of TM1/Cognos/INFOR LN/SAP

Experience of working with finance data

Excellent Excel skills

Good problem solving ability and analytical skills

Ability to act responsively to customer demands

Excellent attention to detail skills

The ability to communicate with colleagues in the business

What we're looking for in you:

You will have excellent relationship building skills, with the ability to influence across the organisation including senior management. You will have good organisational and problem solving skills and the ability to understand business processes in relation to systems architecture and designs.

Location: Warton

Salary: £33,569+ depending on experience

Benefits:

Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

BAE Systems Air

If you'd like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.

From keeping soldiers, sailors and pilots safe to helping countries prosper, from developing the next generation of supersonic aircraft to investing in the next generation of super-smart talent - at BAE Systems, we work together to give our customers an essential edge in protecting the things that really matter. Lives, livelihoods, ways of life.

As part of our Air team, you could be working at the edge of what is technologically possible, shaping the future to ensure our customers are ready to face challenges we cannot even imagine today. You could be developing and evolving the technologies that will defend the UK for generations to come and supporting our customers around the globe.

Join us and you'll be encouraged and rewarded to excel in this important work. Apply your talent where it counts.

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We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

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