Job Description

Date Posted: 2025-10-01
Country: United Kingdom
Location: GBR01:Harlow, Essex, Kao One, Kao Park, Harlow, CM17 9NA
Position Role Type: Unspecified
Job Title: Finance Manager - Rates & Government Accounting
Function: FINANCE
Duration: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37 hrs
Location(s): Harlow/Hybrid with 1 or 2 days a week on site.
Security Clearance Requirements: SC Eligible
Raytheon UK
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.
About the role:
A key role supporting the Head of Finance - Operations to deliver business advice and coordinated management of rates and government accounting. It will directly impact the profitability and competitiveness of the organisation and cuts across all functions and business, offering a wide exposure to senior leaders on both tactical and strategic issues.
Responsibilities:
Owning senior leadership team relationships and leading and owning output of a team of experienced professionals that are responsible for:
Rates submissions

• Owning Long Range Plan (LRP) and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) rates (absorption costing) cycles
• Developing and calculating, for all rate decks:

• The estimated and actual costing and pricing overhead and G&A rates that will be used to price bids and be charged to backlog contracts
• The estimated and actual average labour rates that will be used to price bids and be charged to backlog contracts
• Drive collaboration, focusing on outcomes, with Business Programme Finance (BPF) to maximise recoverability of R&D and bid costs through rates
• Effective problem solving and investigation skills are essential in providing solutions to unstructured challenges, such as new ways to perform strategic pricing

Rates Management

• Be the single point of contact for rates analysis/reporting/queries. Developing and managing key relationships to deliver outcomes, such as:

• Liaising with Business Programme Finance (BPF) to understand all business labour, material, ODC, subcon, R&Os, and investment (NBI, CFR, inventory) drivers of the recovery position
• Liaising with Senior FM - Functional Business Partnering to understand all functional labour, utilisation, headcount and indirect cost drivers, R&Os, disallowables, depreciation, Corporate Brochure, RDEC and average labour rate impacts to the recovery position
• Providing BPF and FP&A with recovery forecasts/budgets and R&Os, along with detailed analysis, to support pre close, close and AOP/LRP planning cycles:

• Calculating under/over forecasts for all rate decks, for all forecast/budget cycles incorporating business, functional and Central Finance inputs
• Owning the consolidated R&Os register for rates (functional and business inputs)
• Regular partnering with Mission Area Leads / BPF to ensure that the recovery analysis provided is well understood, including:

• Owning and briefing Marketing & Selling recharge to the Business
• Owning and briefing disallowables recharge to the business
• Own ad hoc rates exercises, e.g. mid-year reforecasts. Responsible for managing net recovery what-if scenarios on changes to functional forecasts or business COS forecasts.
• Creating Leadership Team (LT) ops reporting for rates
• Owning control tower submissions
• Creating speaker notes for LT Ops
• Owning rates PowerBI dashboard. Ensuring it is maintained, reconciles to source systems, is continually improved, etc
• Maintaining COGNOS rates model. Collaborating with DT to ensure availability, and that system always reflects latest rate deck structure, e.g. allocations
• Owning systems related roll-out of new rates, e.g. SAP, PMX and COGNOS implications
• Supporting the implementation of new Finance Systems and associated processes as it relates to functional forecasting and rates

Government Accounting:

• Ensure RSL's financial compliance with the Defence Reform Act (DRA) and Federal Acquisition Requirements (FAR) throughout the contract lifecycle, from bid to close out
• Own RSL's relationship with CAAS (UK MOD Auditors)
• Own RSL's relationship with the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO)
• Own RSL's relationship with the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
• Be the single point of contact for CAAS, SSRO and DCMA:

• Manage, review and submit all reporting to these bodies, including, but not limited to, rates reporting, programme reporting and SME/Supplier Reporting
• Manage, review and submit all responses to requests from these bodies, including all audit activity
• Manage, review and submit all consultation responses to the SSRO
• Coordinate all programme reporting and programme audit activity with MOD
• Ensure that Finance, Commercial (and other functions as appropriate) are fully trained in all compliance issues
• Be the RSL SME for all DRA, FAR and reporting queries
• Attend industry groups, e.g. DSAG, to ensure that RSL are fully up to date with changes in the regulatory environment and that RSL interests are accounted for in industry responses to consultations
• Ensuring all estimated and actual pricing rates are negotiated and approved in a timely fashion
• Responding to queries from our internal and external auditors

Team Planning/Comms:

• Plans repeatable and ad hoc rates, capex and change activities within Ops Finance team, ensuring all team members understand what is required, when, by whom
• Acts as the liaison between Ops Finance and BPF, FP&A & Central Finance. Ensures that monthly, AOP and LRP rates, capex & change calendars are incorporated fully into the wider finance/business calendar (and vice versa) and tracked against
• Planning and drafting Ops Finance communications aligned to calendar requirements, etc

Candidate Requirements:

• A University degree or equivalent
• CIMA / ACCA / ACA (or equivalent) qualified
• Relevant years' experience in finance roles
• 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 prioritise effectively and having an agile mindset
• Excellent people manager (using both direct and indirect influencing skills). Experience of managing teams effectively
• Excellent planning 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
• Ability to own issues, and deliver effective outcomes
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skillsets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial staff
• Excellent systems skills, including SAP and Microsoft Office
• Working in a programme environment / knowledge of accounting for long term contracts
• Creative and entrepreneurial, providing innovative solutions that drive value to the business
• Negotiation experience and being an effective influencer
• Knowledge of the Defence Reform Act and Federal Acquisition Regulations
• Experience with proposal processes such as RLPM/IPDS
• Knowledge of MoD procurement methodologies & DEFCONs
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation
• Understanding of Project reporting including EACs & EVMS

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