Shire Jobs

Date Posted:

2024-03-04

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Closing date 22nd March

Summary of Role:

A key role supporting the Senior Finance Manager – Functional BP, Bids & Proposals and Compliance to deliver business advice and coordinated management of functions, investment, projects and other aspects of Integrated Business Planning, to the CFO, COO and MD. It will directly impact the profitability and competitiveness of the organisation and cuts across all functions and the business, offering a wide exposure to senior leaders on both tactical and strategic issues.

Main Duties:

• Functional Business Partnering:

• Business Partnering relationships with functional leads and their teams across the whole business

• Functional overhead, workload, and investment forecasting & reporting to support the Integrated Business Planning (IBP), LRP, AOP and monthly cycles. Roll-out standardisation of all forecasting & reporting across the whole business

• Owning the functional plans/forecasts, driving performance versus annual plan/forecast and cost optimisation

• 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 functional leads in creation of basis of estimates for bid activity

• Driving and supporting functional business case and AR generation (inc. but not limited to Capex, Change, M&S and Seed), basis of estimate and make v buy

• Partnering with Programme Management to provide financial governance of investments (inc. EACs)

• 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 and investments

• 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

• Compliance:

• Assist in ensuring RSL’s compliance with the Defence Reform Act (DRA) and Federal Acquisition Requirements (FAR) throughout the contract lifecycle, from bid to close out

• Manage, review and submit reporting to these bodies, including, but not limited to, rates reporting, programme reporting and SME/Supplier Reporting

• Manage, review and submit responses to requests from these bodies, including all audit activity

• Manage, review and submit consultation responses to the SSRO

• Coordinate programme reporting and programme audit activity with MOD

Candidate Requirements:

Essential:

• 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 “think on your feet”, prioritise effectively and having a “can-do” attitude

• Excellent people manager (using both direct and indirect influencing 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

• Being able to own issues, completer-finisher

• Strong financial analytical skills, joining the dots, and attention to detail

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial staff

• Excellent systems skills

• Working in a programme environment / knowledge of accounting for long term contracts

• Negotiation experience and being an effective influencer

• Creative and entrepreneurial, providing innovative solutions that drive value to the business

• Knowledge of the Defence Reform Act and Federal Acquisition Regulations

• Experience of working in a matrix organisation

• Experience in pricing and estimating

• Knowledge of MoD procurement methodologies & DEFCONs

Desirable:

• Experience with proposal processes such as IPDS

• Understanding of Project reporting including EACs & EVMS

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Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.