Higher Apprentice Finance

Location: Barrow-in-Furness (Cumbria)

Salary: Starting from £23,493 per annum, with annual progression through the scheme duration.

What you’ll be doing:

• Start your finance career with Level 4 Finance Higher Apprenticeship.
• Two‑year programme combining structured learning and hands‑on experience.
• Work across finance teams while studying for CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting.
• Gain skills in communication, analysis, and problem‑solving through role rotations.
• Study support, mentoring, and tailored development.
• Potential progression onto Level 7 Finance Degree Apprenticeship, achieving Chartered Accountant status.

What Qualification Will You Get?

• CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting.

Benefits:

• Competitive pension scheme.
• Employee share plans.
• Extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts.
• Eligibility for an annual incentive.

The Finance Team:

Our role is to support by way of agreeing contracts with customers, monitoring subsequent performance against budgets and implementing relevant financial reporting mechanisms that consider all of our large scale, multi‑year complex manufacturing programmes that exist across our boat programmes.

The Submarines Team:

Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world‑class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century. The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state‑of‑the‑art vessels. In total, seven boats will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes. Dreadnought is the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines. We will deliver four submarines to the Royal Navy, with the first submarine entering service in the early 2030s. Dreadnought is widely considered to be one of the world's most complex engineering challenges.

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, 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.

Export Control/Security:

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.

Qualification requirements:

• 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade 9-4 / A*-C which must include Maths & English.
• 96 UCAS points (or equivalent) (excluding UCAS points gained at AS level) which must include Maths or a Finance/Numerical related qualification at Level 3.