Costbase Senior 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.

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: 15th July 2025. 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.