Finance Business Partner Manufacturing in Crawley

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

Salary: Up to £70,000 (dependent on skills and experience).

What you’ll be doing:

• Working closely with the Manufacturing Sector Lead and Operations and Manufacturing Director, their delivery teams and other supporting functions to drive financial and business performance, to support the wider Maritime Services, and BAE Systems PLC objectives.
• Engaging cross functionally as well as with programme leads to drive business improvements that deliver positive financial outcomes including delivery of in year and contractual financial targets and making recommendations to enhance operational efficiency & profitability within both business units.
• Leading on the generation of Integrated Business Plan (IBP) to shape future needs, identify trends and leverage new opportunities or mitigate risks.
• Identifying business trends, business risks and opportunities, and translate these into corrective actions whilst assessing/shaping the financial impact of business decisions against the IBP.
• Working closely with Financial Planning & Analysis and Project Finance colleagues to translate changing business needs into specific capabilities.
• Using business acumen, providing financial challenge and due diligence of any new business activity to enable approval of pricing proposals and delivery of the business strategy balancing long term customer need with maximising shareholder value.
• Being actively involved in new product development proposals to enable business decisions to generate a return on investment, whilst remaining competitive.
• Responsibility for the efficient deployment of working capital and ensuring maximum value from company investments in product capability improvements.
• Working with Project Management and Business Managers to maximise the impact of the contract review process and provision of relevant timely information into Tier Reviews and Business Reviews. Supporting LCM reviews as required.

Your skills and experiences:

• CIMA, ACA, or ACCA Qualified.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven track record as a Finance Business Partner, demonstrating ability to influence across diverse stakeholders.
• Experience within a Manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to distil complex issues, opportunities, and challenges into a compelling narrative, while taking initiative and working with a high degree of autonomy.
• Proven ability to lead teams in a matrix structure, providing direction and coaching to support other functions and embed change effectively.

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 Finance Business Partner is responsible for growing and delivering the financial returns by identifying and driving improvements to business performance. They provide wider leadership and challenge across the team to embed a value add culture including a focus on delivery of current commitments balanced efficiently with product development and early risk mitigation.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible.

If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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: 26th February 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.