Senior Finance Manager

Title: Senior Finance Manager
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5

Job Description: The F&BO Manager will be responsible for providing financial and commercial advice across the business to the achieve objectives and Business strategy. This will include providing financial, commercial and contractual advice and guidance to members of the F&BO team, Programme Managers, Capture Teams, and the Leadership Team. Responsible for pricing and costing policy and controls, ensuring related management processes are defined and the Business is complying with the processes and procedures. This will include ensuring Quality Control process and audit periodicity are followed by the staff. The candidate must be familiar with UKIS financial processes and procedures to enable meaningful customer interface on audits and meeting reporting requirements, as well as dialogue with other divisions in the UK, the U.S., and worldwide to facilitate the furtherance of business interests.

Manages a Finance & Business Operations team, with responsibility for:

• Managing within a demanding environment, with close, integrated work with the customer;
• Pricing of proposals for new and follow on business for the Strategic Systems business unit;
• The management of and advocacy for supplier data analysis and cost modelling performed by cost engineering;
• Analysis and agreement of the forward pricing rates with MOD auditors
• Management of the workload forecasting and overhead budgeting processes
• Analysis and agreement of QDC / non QDC rates with MOD auditors
• Management associated business unit reports in compliance with requirements
• Leadership of the planning and reporting for New Business Capture funding streams.
• Contract and subcontract management, procurement and back office support to the business

Functional Area: Strategic Systems
Vacancy Location: Helensburgh
Hybrid

Required skills, qualifications and experience:

• Proven experience in a Senior Finance role (Senior Finance Manager, Finance Director, Senior Financial Controller or equivalent)
• Professional Accounting qualification (Qualified Accountant, Chartered Accountant, CIMA, ACCA)
• Demonstrable Management / Leadership experience
• Financial Control and Reporting
• Contract & Sub-Contract management experience
• Experience of a Corporate environment
• Attention to detail
• Customer facing with excellent stakeholder management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable skills

• Financial reporting systems and Statutory Reporting
• Contract management within MOD / Defence Industry
• Pre and post-sale activity introducing and managing new contracts

Role Synopsis - What does this position do and why?

• Managing end to end finanace
• Financial Controller / Management Accountant type background
• Reporting for contractual performance
• Managing a team
• Comibination of hands on and leadership to manae team and delegate tasks etc.
• Attention to detail
• Stakeholder management
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written

Interview Process

• 1st skype / telephone
• 2nd onsite

Key skills/key technologies

• ACCA, CIMA, Qualfied Accountant, Chartered Accountant
• Senior Finanace experience
• Contracts / Subcontracts experience

Expected Feedback Timescales on CV's / Interviews 48 hours feedback

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