Senior Finance Analyst – Weapons Business Programme Finance

Senior Finance Analyst

Raytheon UK has an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Finance Analyst to join our Weapons Programme finance team, based in Harlow. The role involves providing high‑quality, accurate and actionable financial analysis and insight to the Finance and Programme teams, leading on a high‑profile programme that underpins the financial performance of the Mission Area for several years.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and communicate the link between programme and financial performance, providing insight into the numbers for business leads and key stakeholders to shape decision making and business strategy.
• Ensure financial processes are delivered on time and well understood by the business and other key stakeholders, including Risk and Opportunity Management, Earned Value Management, and Forecasting, supporting the achievement of all metrics (bookings, sales, profit, cash).
• Actively promote the importance of accuracy, predictability and value‑add analysis across all finance deliverables, encouraging the use of financial data and information.
• Support the Programme Team with Quarterly Estimate at Completion (EAC) reporting.
• Support the establishment of the AOP (Annual Operating Plan) and five‑year plan targets.
• Act as the financial conscience of the business and ensure business and financial policy adherence.
• Provide financial insight to support the business risk and opportunities process (development, analysis, mitigation and review).
• Build a network with all stakeholders.
• Champion best practice and look to improve systems and processes.
• Support the Finance Manager to develop meaningful financial analysis to support new business investment decisions and pricing.
• Carry out ad‑hoc financial analysis and decision support.

Required Experience

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or Finalist.
• Project accounting experience.
• Business partnering skills, working across different internal functions.
• Relevant commercial experience in a similar defence or complex contracting environment.

Desirable Experience

• Experience of working with SAP, Power BI, MS Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Proactive, analytical and inquisitive mindset.
• Attention to detail and process adherence.

Benefits and Work Culture

• 37‑hour working week with early finish Fridays – start your weekend early.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus the opportunity to buy or sell up to 5 days and to take up to 5 paid volunteering days.
• 10.5% company pension contribution with 6% employee contribution.
• Annual company bonus scheme (discretionary) up to 6times salary.
• Life assurance with pension.
• Flexible benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice options, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle‑to‑Work.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies including maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.

Equal Employment Opportunity

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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