Finance Manager – Business Programme Finance; ACTS M4

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 provide 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 role focuses on proactive strategic input and leadership across the Programme, ensuring compliance with financial governance and policy, monthly forecasting, AOP and 5‑year planning, project accounting (EACs), investment, balance‑sheet reviews and cash & foreign‑exchange management.

2‑3 days per week onsite at the Authority location in Warminster with occasional travel to other Raytheon offices.

• Competitive salary
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary Life Assurance with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) plus statutory public holidays, with the opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hrs)
• Car or car allowance
• Company bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits with salary sacrifice (Health Cashplan, Dental, Cycle to Work, etc.)
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year

• Partner and act as the Strategic Finance Business Partner for the Programme Team and its functional leaders, ensuring finance is at the heart of the business
• Manage finance, reporting and forecasting on key metrics including bookings, sales, profit, cash, productivity, cost of sales mix and new business investment
• Explain the link between programme and financial performance to business leads and stakeholders to support decision‑making
• Support the Programme in establishing Annual Operating Plans (AOP) and Long‑Range Plans (LRP) with inter‑lock to functions
• Support new business proposals for gate reviews, including pricing strategy, basis‑of‑estimate generation, foreign‑exchange management, risk and opportunity management, investment and contract negotiation support
• Manage Quarterly Estimate at Completion (EAC) processes for high‑profile fixed‑price programmes with complex commercial and financial arrangements
• Ensure financial processes are delivered on time and understood by the business and key stakeholders (Risk & 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, ensuring business and financial policy adherence
• Champion best practice and look to improve systems and processes
• Collaborate with the wider Finance Team on cross‑functional improvement projects
• Promote the importance of accuracy, predictability and value‑added analysis across all finance deliverables, highlighting the importance of financial data and information

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA) with relevant commercial experience in a similar defence or complex contracting environment
• Previous experience in a business‑partnering role, interfacing 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

• 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 a programme environment with knowledge of accounting for long‑term contracts, including Estimate at Completion
• Excellent presentation skills, comfortable with data and detail while extracting 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, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.