Business Controller

Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Business Controller

Templecombe

 Are you a finance professional with high levels of accuracy and diligence? Are you inquisitive with the ability to question the status quo? Do you enjoy working on projects and helping the business to achieve the desired results?

What the role has to offer:

• Working in one of the largest businesses within Thales UK, which is going through significant growth.

• A diverse portfolio of work and opportunity to work with multifunctional and multi-entity teams.

• Opportunity for career growth and development within a flexible and people orientated environment

Our Opportunity

Thales UK Under Water Systems (UWS), who is the leading provider in underwater sensor systems, have a great opportunity within the finance team for a Business Controller.

You will be responsible for providing timely financial management information and analysis for bids and projects and driving efficient delivery of key business information. You will have Project Business Control accounting responsibility for products for large scale defence projects, providing monthly financial reporting of projects, business prospects and be involved in Multi-Year Budgeting and Strategic Business Planning.

This role requires SC Clearance in which you will need to satisfy the criteria for application, please refer to the UKSV website for more information.

About you

You will be a qualified accountant with a professional accounting qualification or be part qualified and studying towards related qualification e.g. CIMA, ACCA (or equivalent), or have proven relevant experience within a financial environment ideally within Defence. You should have some experience operating as a Project Business Controller or equivalent project experience, working on large complex multi-entity programmes, products and services in a technical environment covering development and production activities. You will be a team player who can interface at all levels within an engineering and manufacturing Company.

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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