Corporate Finance Manager

This vacancy is not currently eligible for the UK Employee Referral Scheme.

Description

This vacancy is open to permanent and fixed-term BAE Systems employees only. While agency workers have access to relevant permanent opportunities, this role has been designated as an internal opportunity and therefore only permanent and fixed-term employees of BAE Systems are eligible to apply.

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Corporate Finance Manager

Group Treasury are pleased to share this internal opportunity for an established Finance professional.

As Corporate Finance Manager, you will provide critical expertise on complex bank guarantee, bonding and credit support structures that underpin the Group's ability to secure major contracts, receive customer advance payments and deliver strategic growth objectives.

The role acts as a key interface between Business Units, customers, banks, Legal, Commercial, Finance and Company Secretariat, ensuring commercial opportunities are supported by appropriate credit support structures.
In this position, you will play an important role in supporting broader corporate finance activities, including strategic financing projects, financial modelling and stakeholder engagement. You should expect to be recognised as a Group Treasury SME for Trade Finance and Know-Your-Customer (“KYC”) activities, supporting the Group’s businesses globally.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to develop your career within BAE Systems due to exposure gained across multiple business areas.

Your main responsibilities as Corporate Finance Manager will be to:

· Lead the Group's engagement with Business Units and banking partners on the complex trade finance arrangements that support contract delivery.

· Deliver and maintain the Group’s £2bn bank guarantee portfolio.

· Serve as the Group's central expert on bank guarantees, standby letters of credit and KYC requirements, providing specialist advice across multiple jurisdictions.

· Provide financial modelling and analytical support for strategically important Group activities, including financing initiatives and credit rating related analysis.

· Support Treasury policy compliance, governance requirements and control processes, helping protect the Group from operational, financial and reputational risk.

· Drive continuous improvement through the implementation of new technologies, enhanced processes and more efficient ways of working across Treasury operations.

Your skills and qualifications:

· Recognised qualifications and accreditations in Accountancy are essential.

· Chartered Accountancy status preferred but not essential.

· Expertise spanning trade finance, banking, corporate finance, legal documentation, financial modelling, governance and stakeholder management.

· Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and judgement, routinely negotiating with financial institutions and advising senior Finance and business leaders on complex contractual and treasury matters.

· Possess a critical eye for detail and exceptional communication, influencing and relationship-management skills, translating highly technical financial concepts into practical commercial solutions for diverse stakeholders.

· Ability to operate as a critical and ‘difficult to replace capability’ within Group Treasury, with the specialist knowledge typically taking years to develop and being scarce within both the corporate treasury and banking markets.

Location: Frimley (3 days per week on site) + occasional travel to London

Grade: GG13

Head Office

If you’d like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.

From keeping soldiers, sailors and pilots safe to helping countries prosper, from developing the next generation of supersonic aircraft to investing in the next generation of super-smart talent – at BAE Systems, we work together to give our customers an essential edge in protecting the things that really matter. Lives, livelihoods, ways of life.

As part of the Head Office team, you’ll be at the heart of this endeavour – working closely with our air, maritime, land and cyber and intelligence businesses to support our customers around the world.

We are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

There are endless opportunities to grow at BAE Systems, and we will build upon the diversity of your experience through supporting your movement across our organisation. Our mission is to support our colleagues reach their full potential and so you’ll always find something new that will continue to inspire and provide an exciting and varied career that continues to play a crucial role in creating a secure tomorrow for generations to come.

We believe when you bring together different people and different perspectives it inspires creativity and drives innovation. It helps us fulfil our purpose and it's integral to our culture. We want everyone to be heard and respected, allowing us all to develop in an inclusive workplace and thrive together. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Job: Finance

Primary Location: Frimley

Organisation: Corporate Head Office and Shared Services (GSF)

Closing Date: 20/Nov/26, 11:59:00 PM