Accountant

Location: Warton – Hybrid, 3 days on site

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £59,491+ (DOE)

Who we are: Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

Job Description: You’ll oversee a high-performing Project Finance team supporting advanced Air programmes, delivering insight that shapes key business strategies. Working across a diverse portfolio, you’ll guide a team of finance professionals, ensuring high-quality reporting, planning and evaluation using modern financial tools and data-driven approaches. You’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, balancing team leadership with operational delivery and continuous improvement. This role offers considerable visibility across the business, the opportunity to influence outcomes at scale and excellent development potential, ideal for someone looking to grow their leadership capability within a dynamic and evolving environment.

Core duties:

• Guiding a small team, ensuring delivery of accurate, high-quality financial outputs to key stakeholders
• Planning workloads and overseeing end-to-end activities, ensuring deadlines are met and quality standards maintained
• Acting as a key contact for finance stakeholders, coordinating requirements, timelines and process expectations
• Coordinating process responsibility, implementing improvements to enhance efficiency, consistency and overall performance
• Supporting team development through performance management, feedback and adherence to HR policies

Essential Skills:

• Fully qualified accountant with post-qualification experience, supporting financial delivery within complex or high-volume environments
• Demonstrable experience heading teams, ensuring accountability, quality outputs and consistent performance across processes
• Considerable organisational skills, prioritising workloads and managing multiple stakeholders within strategically key, deadline-driven settings
• Effective communication skills, engaging stakeholders and clearly presenting financial information, expectations and outcomes
• Experience reviewing financial outputs for accuracy and driving continuous improvement across processes and team performance

The AIR Project Finance Capability Centre: Join a dynamic team at the heart of advanced military air programmes, supporting major production and global customer contracts. Working across high-impact projects, the team collaborates closely with multi-functional partners to drive performance, enable growth, and deliver value across innovative, world-class defence capabilities.

Why BAE Systems? Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle.

In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive: We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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: 8th April 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.