Senior Finance Analyst - Functional Business Partnering

Date Posted:

Country: United Kingdom

Location: GBR
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Glenrothes, Scotland, Queensway Industrial Estate, Glenrothes, KY7 5PY

Position Role Type: Unspecified

Job Title: Senior Finance Analyst - Functional Business Partnering

Function: Finance

Duration: Permanent

Hours: Full time 37 hrs

Location(s): Harlow or Glenrothes/Hybrid with 1 or 2 days a week on site.

Security Clearance Requirements: SC Eligible

Raytheon UK

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. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

A key role supporting the Head of Finance - Operations to deliver business advice and coordinated management of functions, capital and OPEX investment. It will directly impact the profitability and competitiveness of the organisation and cuts across all functions and business, offering a wide exposure to senior leaders on both tactical and strategic issues.

• Owning Business Partnering relationships with senior leaders and complex functions
• Functional headcount, utilisation and overhead forecasting & reporting to support the Integrated Business Planning (IBP), LRP, AOP and monthly cycles.
• Transform & standardise forecasting & reporting across the whole business
• Owning the functional plans/forecasts, driving performance versus annual plan/forecast and cost optimisation
• Prepping for and supporting the monthly SLT Rates Review Boards for all rate decks
• Drive interlock between functions and the business. Embed tactical workload forecasting into budgets and forecasts
• Supporting functional leads to create, manage, and monitor functional dashboards/metrics, service level agreements (SLAs) and service catalogues, to drive efficiency and operational performance
• Supporting Manufacturing operational planning by acting as the conduit for PM, BD and Ops teams. For example, linking sales/unit plans to touch and support hours, machine hours, supply chain, etc, to drive business growth, efficiency, and operational performance
• Supporting functional leads to create and manage zero based budgets and new and robust finance governance processes
  • Inputting into the Risk and Opportunities register for rates
  • Supporting Business Restructuring and Indirect Cost Optimisation Projects
  • Supporting the implementation of new Finance Systems and associated processes as it relates to functional forecasting and rates

• Support the consolidated capital and change forecast, driving performance versus annual plan/forecast
• Drive maximum ROI out of capex and change projects. Track benefit realisation of capex and change projects
• Supporting UK forecast for capitalisation of assets and the depreciation forecast aligned to the latest forecast capitalisation plan.
• Creating functional business cases and AR generation (inc. but not limited to Capex, Change and M&S), basis of estimate and make v buy
• Supporting the monthly SLT Investment Review Boards covering capex and change projects (AR spend v plan v approved AR, etc). Collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure all deliverables are met
• Supporting SLT AR Gate Reviews and approvals for UK and RCL. Reporting on and chasing actions and approvals progress
• Supporting AOP and LRP prioritisation process/meetings
• Supporting UK SLT reviews for material capex and change projects
• Inputting into the Risk and Opportunities register for investments

• A University degree or equivalent
• CIMA / ACCA / ACA (or equivalent) part qualified
• Relevant years' experience in finance roles
• 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
• Experience of working collaboratively within teams
• 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 solve issues, and deliver effective outcomes
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skillsets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to…