Job title: Senior Costbase Accountant

Location: Barrow-in-Furness / Sheffield – Hybrid working with 2/3 days in the office and if Sheffield based once a month in Barrow minimum

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.

The Weapon Systems UK Team:

As part of BAE Systems Platforms and Services sector, Weapon Systems (UK) designs, develops, manufactures and supports artillery systems, naval guns, and provides engineering capability to the wider BAE Systems business. Our global reach brings our customers a depth and breadth of expertise that meet critical needs in the air, on land, and at sea. Our mission strives for us to be our customer’s trusted and affordable weapons provider, delivering enhanced effects on target and complete mission solutions. We are looking for innovation, commitment and drive to help define the future of Weapon Systems capabilities.

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: 27th August 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.

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