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Job Title: Senior Finance Analyst - Functional Business Partnering
Function: Finance
Duration: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37 hrs
Location(s): Harlow/Hybrid with 1 or 2 days a week on site.
Security Clearance Requirements: SC Eligible
Raytheon UK
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.
About the role:
A key role supporting the Head of Finance – Operations to deliver business advice and coordinated management of functions, capital and opex investment. It will directly impact the profitability and competitiveness of the organisation and cuts across all functions and business, offering a wide exposure to senior leaders on both tactical and strategic issues.
Responsibilities:
Functional Business Partnering:
1. Owning Business Partnering relationships with senior leaders and complex functions
2. Functional headcount, utilisation and overhead forecasting & reporting to support the Integrated Business Planning (IBP), LRP, AOP and monthly cycles.
3. Transform & standardise forecasting & reporting across the whole business
4. Owning the functional plans/forecasts, driving performance versus annual plan/forecast and cost optimisation
5. Prepping for and supporting the monthly SLT Rates Review Boards for all rate decks
6. Drive interlock between functions and the business. Embed tactical workload forecasting into budgets and forecasts
7. Supporting functional leads to create, manage, and monitor functional dashboards/metrics, service level agreements (SLAs) and service catalogues, to drive efficiency and operational performance
8. Supporting Manufacturing operational planning by acting as the conduit for PM, BD and Ops teams. For example, linking sales/unit plans to touch and support hours, machine hours, supply chain, etc, to drive business growth, efficiency, and operational performance
9. Supporting functional leads to create and manage zero based budgets and new and robust finance governance processesInputting into the Risk and Opportunities register for ratesSupporting Business Restructuring and Indirect Cost Optimisation ProjectsSupporting the implementation of new Finance Systems and associated processes as it relates to functional forecasting and rates
Capex & Change:
10. Support the consolidated capital and change forecast, driving performance versus annual plan/forecast
11. Drive maximum ROI out of capex and change projects. Track benefit realisation of capex and change projects
12. Supporting UK forecast for capitalisation of assets and the depreciation forecast aligned to the latest forecast capitalisation plan.
13. Creating functional business cases and AR generation (inc. but not limited to Capex, Change and M&S), basis of estimate and make v buy
14. Supporting the monthly SLT Investment Review Boards covering capex and change projects (AR spend v plan v approved AR, etc). Collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure all deliverables are met
15. Supporting SLT AR Gate Reviews and approvals for UK and RCL. Reporting on and chasing actions and approvals progress
16. Supporting AOP and LRP prioritisation process/meetings
17. Supporting UK SLT reviews for material capex and change projects
18. Inputting into the Risk and Opportunities register for investments
Candidate Requirements:
19. A University degree or equivalent
20. CIMA / ACCA / ACA (or equivalent) part qualified
21. Relevant years’ experience in finance roles
22. Excellent presentational skills. Comfortable with data and detail but having the ability to extract high level messages. Experience of presenting to senior audiences
23. Ability to work on concurrent issues/problems with multiple senior stakeholders and sources of information, both internal and external, under time pressure. Being able to prioritise effectively and having an agile mindset
24. Experience of working collaboratively within teams
25. Excellent planning skills
26. Strong communicator and networker with a thirst for understanding the business model, providing meaningful and actionable insight, critical thinking and an ability to think differently about existing problems. Previous experience of dealing one-to-one with both senior and external stakeholders and building relationships
27. Ability to solve issues, and deliver effective outcomes
28. Strong analytical and strategic thinking skillsets
29. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial staff
30. Excellent systems skills, including SAP and Microsoft Office
31. Working in a programme environment / knowledge of accounting for long term contracts
32. Negotiation experience and being an effective influencer
33. Creative and entrepreneurial, providing innovative solutions that drive value to the business
34. Experience of working in a matrix organisation
35. Understanding of Project reporting including EACs & EVMS
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