Finance and Data Analytics Lead

Job Title: Finance Data & Analytics Analyst

Location: Warton, Hybrid - 3 days per week on site minimum

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £52,161

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

You will support the Project Finance Capability Centre (PFCC) by improving data quality, standardising reporting approaches, and enabling greater automation across Finance processes. Working with stakeholders across the business, you will develop data models, dashboards, and reporting solutions that provide meaningful insights and support strategy-making. You will play a key role in finance transformation activities, helping to modernise data structures, strengthen financial controls, and embed consistent, data-driven ways of working across the Air portfolio.

Core duties:

• Create, enhance, and maintain dashboards, reporting solutions, and self-service analytics capabilities that provide actionable insights, improve business performance, and support strategy-making across the PFCC and wider Air business
• Work across the PFCC to translate project and finance data into meaningful insights, identifying opportunities to improve reporting solutions, data models, analytics capability, and underlying data structures
• Develop and implement standardised data rules, structures, and models that support greater automation, ensuring stakeholder requirements are reflected within reporting solutions, data models, and finance processes
• Apply data and analytics expertise to modernise PFCC data maintenance activities, driving automation, improving reporting efficiency, and embedding best-practice data management techniques across Project Finance
• Improve data ownership and integrity by reducing manual corrections, promoting "right at source" principles, and strengthening the quality, consistency, and governance of financial and project data
• Support the wider AdAstra and Finance transformation agenda by exploring and introducing new technologies, tools, and approaches that improve scalability, automation, reporting, and analytical capability across the PFCC
• Ensure compliance with financial controls and governance requirements, supporting internal and external audit activities through accurate, consistent, and well-managed data and reporting practices

Essential Skills:

• Experience applying advanced data and analytical skills within a finance, project finance, FP&A, or similar data-driven environment
• Proficient ability to interpret complex data, generate meaningful insights, and communicate recommendations and outcomes to senior stakeholders with minimal oversight
• Experience creating, developing, and maintaining Power BI dashboards and Power Query solutions, with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications
• Considerable understanding of data modelling principles, with experience working with complex datasets from multiple systems and sources to support reporting, analytics, and strategy-making
• Experience designing, maintaining, or improving data structures, automated data flows, and reporting solutions, with an understanding of data architecture and data engineering principles
• Ideally, experience using modern cloud-based analytics and reporting platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Services, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar technologies, alongside a demonstrable interest in automation, emerging technologies, and data best practice

The Air PFCC Data Function Team:

A close‑knit team of five within the PFCC Data function, supporting a wider Project Finance Capability Centre of around 150 specialists. The team plays a key role in enabling AdAstra and future transformation activity, offering profound development opportunities, exposure to senior finance leaders and the chance to shape high‑profile data projects across the Air portfolio.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 20th November 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.