Senior Finance Manager - Business Programme Finance (ACTS) in Harlow

Date Posted: 2026-03-24

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Harlow, Essex

Position Role Type: Hybrid

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Car/Car allowance (dependant on grade/role)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Private Medical Insurance - dependant on grade

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role).

About us:

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do.

About the role:

In this key senior finance leadership role, reporting directly into the Head of Finance, the Senior Finance Manager role is responsible for providing high quality business partnering and accurate, actionable financial analysis to the sub-Mission Area Lead and to senior Finance leaders across Raytheon UK. The Senior Finance Manager will be a proven leader with the resilience to work in a complex and sometimes pressured environment and will be relied upon as a trusted partner to provide proactive strategic input and financial leadership of the ACTS (Army Collective Training Services) Programme.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead a Finance team which may include Finance Managers / Senior Finance Analysts / Finance Analysts to meet Programme deliverables.
• Lead, motivate and develop an experienced Finance team, providing control and guidance on program accounting and reporting.
• Senior leader within the ACTS Programme, acting as trusted business partner and ensuring appropriate governance and financial stewardship.
• Development, coordination and presentation of the strategy, long range plan and annual operating plan (AOP).
• Leadership of the financial management and reporting of key metrics including performance against AOP and forecasts.
• Lead engagement across the matrix structure with both finance and non-finance functions.
• Provide innovative solutions to business/program issues within RTN policy and SOX compliance.
• Leading and championing CORE initiatives within the Business Program Finance team to build efficiencies of reporting and finance process.
• Establishing and nurturing strong networks across the finance function and broader business / RTN US / Stakeholders; engaging and influencing at Senior levels.
• Supporting business case generation for Gate Reviews including advising on pricing strategy, basis-of-estimate generation; foreign exchange management; risk and opportunities management; contract negotiation support.
• Leading hedging activities where required.
• Drive efficiencies, support training (systems & policy) and collaboration across the Business Finance Teams.
• Leadership of actionable plans to mitigate business risks and realise opportunities.
• Support timely EAC development and review with analysis and recommendations based on recent performance metrics.
• Ownership of the financial results with support of monthly MBR/Ops reviews where required.
• Promote the development of the 'One Finance' team through leading by example in work-life balance, High Performing Culture principles and continued professional development.
• Act as the "financial conscience" of the business and ensure Business and Financial Policy adherence.
• To support the wider Business during surge periods where required.

Candidate Requirements:

• CIMA / ACCA / ACA (or equivalent) qualified.
• Proven relevant commercial experience in a similar defence or complex contracting environment.
• Trusted senior business partner and sounding board to the sub-Mission Area Lead.
• Willingness to travel to multiple sites when required as a 'visible' leader.
• Excellent presentational skills.
• Comfortable with data and detail but having the ability to extract high level messages.
• Experience of presenting to senior audiences.
• Ability to work on concurrent issues/problems with multiple senior stakeholders and sources of information, both internal and external, under time pressure.
• Being able to prioritise effectively and having an agile mindset.
• Excellent people manager (using both direct and indirect influencing skills).
• Excellent planning skills.
• Strong communicator and networker with a thirst for understanding the business model, providing meaningful and actionable insight, critical thinking and an ability to think differently about existing problems.
• Previous experience of dealing one-to-one with both senior and external stakeholders and building relationships.
• Ability to own issues, and deliver effective outcomes.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skillsets.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial staff.
• Excellent systems skills, including SAP and Microsoft Office.
• Experience of working in a programme environment / knowledge of accounting for long term contracts.
• Understanding of Project reporting including EACs & EVMS.
• Creative and entrepreneurial, providing innovative solutions that drive value to the business.
• Negotiation experience and being an effective influencer.
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation.
• Proven Finance leader with experience as a key influencer of senior stakeholders across a matrix organization.

Equality & Diversity:

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.