Job Title: Finance Business Partner – Business Operations
Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £80,000+ depending on skills and experience plus executive-level benefits package
What you’ll be doing:
* Partner with Functional Directors to provide financial leadership and support
* Cost & Capital Improvements: Drive cost reduction and capital process improvements, ensuring engagement from Finance Business Partners
* Act as a trusted finance advisor, delivering high-quality financial insights
* Lead Overhead Cost Performance for major functions, including Site, Supply Chain, Engineering, Nuclear Site Safety, SHE, and Airfield
* Strengthen connections across Submarines Capital Investment and Programme Capital Portfolios, ensuring financial coherence and assurance
* Shape key financial decisions, ensuring affordability, risk mitigation, and alignment with business goals
Your skills and experiences:
* Strong understanding of financial management in large organisations, including lifecycle management, operational frameworks, and business transformation
* Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across cross-functional teams and external partners
* Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment, applying strategic thinking and complex problem-solving
* Experience supporting large-scale programmes, ensuring financial oversight, compliance, and risk management
* Strong communication, negotiation, and team leadership skills, with experience operating at senior management level
* Fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with significant post-qualification experience and strong knowledge of financial control, assurance, and relevant accounting standards
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 Cost Performance team:
The Finance Business Partnering role supports Cost Performance Business Partnering in Submarines, driving a cost-conscious culture and ensuring the Capital Investment portfolio is effectively managed. With significant business growth over the past six years, increasing cost pressures and budget constraints require strong financial oversight to maintain affordability and mitigate reputational risk. This role will partner with senior stakeholders, influence strategic investment decisions, and strengthen cost controls across the business to support sustainable financial performance.
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.
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: 28th March 2025
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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