Finance Manager - Business Programme Finance (ACTS) M4 in Warminster

Date Posted: 2026-03-25

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Warminster, Wiltshire

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
• Company bonus scheme
• 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

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.

Our Business:

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

Hybrid Working:

2-3 days per week onsite at Authority location Warminster with occasional travel to other Raytheon Offices.

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, the successful candidate will manage and develop a small team of qualified and/or part qualified accountants within the ACTS (Army Collective Training Service) Programme. The Finance Manager will be responsible for providing high quality business partnering and accurate, actionable financial analysis and insight to the business team and to Finance leaders across Raytheon UK and US. The individual will be relied upon to provide proactive strategic input and leadership across the Programme.

Responsibilities:

• Partner and act as the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Programme Team and its Functional leaders, ensuring that finance is at the heart of the business.
• Responsible for financial management, reporting and forecasting on key metrics including but not limited to: Bookings, Sales, Profit, Cash, Productivity, Cost of Sales mix and New business investment.
• Understand and communicate the link between programme and financial performance across the business providing insight into the numbers for business leads and key stakeholders helping shape decision making and business strategy.
• Support the Programme in establishing Annual Operating Plans (AOP) and Long-Range Plans (LRP) ensuring interlock with functions.
• Support new business proposals for Gate Reviews including pricing strategy, basis-of-estimate generation; foreign exchange management; risk and opportunities management; investment and contract negotiation support.
• Management of Quarterly Estimate at Completion (EAC) processes including high profile fixed price programmes with complex commercial and financial arrangements.
• Ensure financial processes are delivered on time and well understood by the business and other key stakeholders including Risk and Opportunity Management, Earned Value Management, Forecasting.
• Line manage and develop team members to maintain a high performing business partner team.
• Act as the "financial conscience" of the business and ensure Business and Financial Policy adherence.
• Champion best practice and look to improve systems and processes.
• Work closely with the wider Finance Team and collaborate on cross functional improvement projects.
• Actively promote the importance of accuracy, predictability and value add analysis across all finance deliverables, promoting where possible the importance of financial data and information.

Candidate Requirements:

Essential Skills:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA) with relevant commercial experience in a similar defence or complex contracting environment.
• Previous experience in a business partnering role, interfacing and conducting business with various functional disciplines across a matrix organisation.
• Commercially astute and adept at strategic planning.
• Line Management experience.
• Current holder of or eligibility to obtain security clearance.

Desirable Skills:

• Proven ability to actively drive resolution on critical business challenges and key issues.
• Excellent systems skills - SAP, Microsoft Excel and Business Intelligence, Power BI.
• Experience in programme environment with knowledge of accounting for long term contracts, including Estimate at Completion.
• Excellent presentation skills. Comfortable with data and detail, but having the ability to extract high level messages to support business decisions.

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.