Summary of Role
At Raytheon UK we are proud to have developed a skilled workforce which is a leader in technological innovation across Cyber and Intelligence, Aerospace and Defence. However, it’s not just our technology that pushes boundaries, our Finance team is always going above and beyond to deliver a quality service to the business and enable excellence through strong financial leadership.
Working in our finance team is not just about producing numbers, it’s about understanding what drives them and making complex financial issues easy to understand. Reporting to the Finance Manager, the post holder will be a member of the Business Finance Team within the Cyber, Space & Training Business Area. Cyber, Space & Training is a geographically diverse business and offers multiple site locations as office based working solutions, working from home is also an option with this role with occasional travel to our other sites as required by the business.

The main focus of the role will be on providing high quality business partnering, providing robust and accurate financial insight including maintenance of financial reports, analysis of performance data, generation and analysis of cost data, support to new business opportunities, support to management/ programme teams, production and analysis of cost centre expenditure reports and support of internal/external reviews.

As part of the Cyber, Space & Training Finance team the candidate will sit within a high performing team who are consistently looking to improve on how we provide support to the business. The successful candidate will need to be ambitious, highly motivated in expanding their technical knowledge, commercial acumen and have a drive to focus on their own personal development ensuring that the business receive 1st class financial analysis & support.
 
Main Duties
Providing day-to-day financial support for key stakeholders within the business and wider company
Supporting the quarterly EAC process
Understanding and communication of the link between programme and financial performance for the business
Recognition of revenue applied to service and product-based programmes, including collaboration with financial accounting to ensure that programmes are set up correctly and executed in line with Raytheon policies.
Support of pricing activity for commercial bid activities
Reporting from SAP, BW and Cognos for all programmes
Production, agreement, and distribution of financial targets, including forecast, to Programme managers to ensure that forecasts are understood, have stakeholder buy in and are agreed prior to submission
Champion best practice and look to improve systems and processes with liaison with wider finance teams
Be responsible for excellent financial governance in line with Raytheon policy
Ad hoc analysis as required by the business and wider finance teams
Supporting the Finance Manager in production and dissemination of management information to key stakeholders in Raytheon UK and Raytheon US
Act as guardian of the financial conscience of the business with the ability to play Devil’s advocate and looking to provide solutions that innovative to financial problems
Actively promote the importance of accuracy, predictability and value add analysis across all finance reportables within CST, promoting where possible the importance of financial data and information
Promote the development of the wider CST Finance team through leading by example in work-life balance, High Performing Culture principles and continued professional development.