Job Title:
Project Accountant/Senior Project Accountant
Location:
Barrow-in-Furness. 3 days per week onsite.
Salary:
Competitive
What you’ll be doing :
Responsible for delivering all core project accounting outputs for the Submarine Programme, while providing effective financial
challenge, governance, and support to programme teams
Partnering with the Project
Management
Organisation (PMO)
lead
to deliver robust forecasts into the Monthly
Management
Reporting (MMR) process, ensuring financial commitments are achieved
Supporting the production of quarterly Contract Status Reports, ensuring they present an accurate financial position of the programme
Driving continuous improvement across financial processes, practices, and governance activities
Potential line
management
responsibilities, supporting the ongoing development of team members
Providing financial support to contract
management
activities, including negotiations and contract amendments
Collaborating regularly with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD, Project and Commercial teams, Supply Chain, and Central Finance
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Part-qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA), or equivalent qualification, is essential
Proven
accounting and financial
management
experience, including experience within a project finance environment
Strong
knowledge of financial IT systems, including SAP and MS Excel
Desirable:
Fully qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA), or equivalent qualification
Good working knowledge of MOD policies and procedures
Understanding of business and financial modelling
Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and organisational levels
Experience within a similar Defence environment or role would be highly advantageous
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 team:
The Project Finance Capability Centre provides the opportunity to work across a Submarine programme in support of your career development. This exciting finance role provides the opportunity to
manage
various financial aspects of the programmes, with the aim that you experience all core project accounting roles and processes. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
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:
4th March 2026
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.
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