Project Accountant/Senior Project Accountant

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. 3 days per week onsite. Salary: Competitive

What Youll Be Doing

• Responsible for delivering all core project accounting outputs for the Submarine Programme, while providing effective financial challenge, governance, and support to programme teams.
• Partnering with the Project Management Organisation (PMO) lead to deliver robust forecasts into the Monthly Management Reporting (MMR) process, ensuring financial commitments are achieved.
• Supporting the production of quarterly Contract Status Reports, ensuring they present an accurate financial position of the programme.
• Driving continuous improvement across financial processes, practices, and governance activities.
• Potential line management responsibilities, supporting the ongoing development of team members.
• Providing financial support to contract management activities, including negotiations and contract amendments.
• Collaborating regularly with internal and external stakeholders, including MOD, Project and Commercial teams, Supply Chain, and Central Finance.

Essential Your skills and experiences

• Part-qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA), or equivalent qualification, is essential.
• Proven accounting and financial management experience, including experience within a project finance environment.
• Strong knowledge of financial IT systems, including SAP and MS Excel.

Desirable

• Fully qualified Accountant (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA), or equivalent qualification.
• Good working knowledge of MOD policies and procedures.
• Understanding of business and financial modelling.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and organisational levels.
• Experience within a similar Defence environment or role would be highly advantageous.

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 Team

The Project Finance Capability Centre provides the opportunity to work across a Submarine programme in support of your career development. This exciting finance role provides the opportunity to manage various financial aspects of the programmes, with the aim that you experience all core project accounting roles and processes. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where youll be able to make a real difference. Youll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where youll 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 4th March 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.