Overview

Position Title: Finance Manager

Company: MBDA

Location: Bristol, UK

Job Description

You are empowered within this role to develop and nurture contacts at all levels across our UK and International businesses; this provides an interesting balance of variety, challenge and opportunity, including European travel.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage all contracts associated with the company’s future products including bid approval, performance monitoring and delivery risk/opportunities
  • Manage the generation and reporting of budgets, business plans, forecasts and key performance indicators across a wide variety of MBDA activities and to ensure these metrics are agreed, understood and met by stakeholders
  • Identify, monitor and manage all risks and opportunities associated with key financial targets
  • Support Capital Investment evaluation and planning for the Engineering Directorate
  • Ensure compliance to all relevant financial/accounting regulation (external and internal); e.g. IFRS 15
  • Manage and develop a small team of finance professionals
  • Some travel is required to our Stevenage and European sites to nurture and sustain professional relationships.

Requirements:

  • Ideally, the successful applicant will have experience of working within a long-term contracting business, with experience of both long-term contracts and functional cost base controlling.
  • Demonstrable, in-depth experience of financial control, statutory and management reporting in a complex business environment
  • Ability to advise, encourage, and influence senior management with a clear understanding of how cultural differences impact methods of working
  • Holder of, or able to achieve, SC level clearance

About MBDA

by establishing ourselves as an industry leader; promoting co-operation and delivering technical and operational excellence to our customer.