Costbase Senior Accountant (Farnborough)

Job title: Senior Costbase Accountant

Location: Barrow-in-Furness / Sheffield – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £50,000+ (Depending on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead on actualisation, forecasting, and budgeting of the cost base for QBR and IBP processes

• Deliver comprehensive Fixed Asset reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance

• Partner with Budget Holders to provide timely and insightful reporting, including P&L, variance analysis, and identification of risks and opportunities

• Prepare detailed cost base cash forecasts to support strategic planning

• Own the calculation of critical rates including costing rates, throughput, and utilisation

• Accurately input forecast and budget data into the SAP ERP system

• Support the wider team through ad-hoc analysis and cross-cover, meeting both internal and external customer needs

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Fully qualified accountant (ICAEW, ACCA, ACA, or CIMA essential – AAT not accepted)

• Advanced Excel proficiency, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, SUMIF, filters, and data manipulation

• Proven experience in management accounts, with a strong focus on costing and pricing rate calculations

• Confident stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to challenge, influence, and build effective working relationships across all levels

Desirable:

• Highly desirable to have SAP experience

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Weapon Systems UK Team:

As part of BAE Systems Platforms and Services sector, Weapon Systems (UK) designs, develops, manufactures and supports artillery systems, naval guns, and provides engineering capability to the wider BAE Systems business. Our global reach brings our customers a depth and breadth of expertise that meet critical needs in the air, on land, and at sea. Our mission strives for us to be our customer’s trusted and affordable weapons provider, delivering enhanced effects on target and complete mission solutions. We are looking for innovation, commitment and drive to help define the future of Weapon Systems capabilities.

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