Senior Finance Analyst – Business Programme Finance (Weapons)

Position

Senior Finance Analyst – Weapons Programme Finance Team, Harlow, Essex (Hybrid).

Key Responsibilities

• Understand and communicate the link between programme and financial performance, providing insight to business leads and key stakeholders.
• Ensure financial processes are delivered on time and well understood by the business and stakeholders (Risk, Opportunity Management, Earned Value Management, Forecasting).
• Support the achievement of all metrics (bookings, sales, profit, cash).
• Actively promote accuracy, predictability and value‑added analysis across all finance deliverables.
• Support the Programme Team with Quarterly Estimate at Completion (EAC) reporting.
• Help establish the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and five‑year plan targets.
• Act as the “financial conscience” of the business, ensuring Business and Financial Policy adherence.
• Provide financial insight to support the business risk & opportunities process (development, analysis, mitigation & review).
• Build a network with all stakeholders.
• Champion best practice and seek improvements to systems and processes.
• Assist the Finance Manager in developing meaningful financial analysis for new business investment decisions and pricing.
• Conduct ad‑hoc financial analysis and decision support.

Required Experience

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or finalist.
• Project accounting experience.
• Business partnering skills, working across different internal functions.
• Relevant commercial experience in a similar defence or complex contracting environment.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working with SAP, Power BI, MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Proactive, analytical and inquisitive mindset.
• Attention to detail and process adherence.

Benefits

• 37‑hour working week with early‑finish Fridays.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays; option to buy or sell up to 5 days; up to 5 paid days volunteering.
• 10.5% company pension contribution with 6% employee contribution.
• Annual company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• Six times salary life assurance with pension.
• Flexible benefits scheme with salary sacrifice options (Health Cashplan, Dental, Cycle to Work, etc.).
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.

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.

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