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.