Job Description

Location: Bristol, 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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that\xe2\x80\x99s why we offer you the flexibility to do what\xe2\x80\x99s important to you; whether that\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

THALES are looking to recruit a confidant and productive Junior Project Accountant to ensure a strong financial control on projects covering the control of costs (actual costs, ETC, EAC, cost variances and their root causes, risk allocation and movement in provisions)

You will be based in either Bristol or Cheadle working within our Under Water Systems Division

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• Pension Scheme
• Half Day finish on Fridays
• Hybrid Working
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover equivalent to 2X times annual salary
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

What will you deliver?

• Control & monitoring of project expenditure and delivery on assigned projects.
• Understanding the project budgets.
• Supporting Project Managers to understand actual costs incurred.
• Supporting Project Managers in preparing latest estimates to complete (ETC) and estimates at completion (EAC) for projects.
• Investigate and explain variances to budgets (costs; revenues; cash flows).
• Monitoring and reporting on the level of risk held within Projects and risk evolution.
• Ensure project team(s) understand how schedule slippage impacts costs, delivery of milestones (revenues; cash).
• Understand of project customer contracts and Ts&Cs; assess impact of these on project(s) and on any deviations within projects.
• Ensure financial integrity in the preparation and delivery of new Bids.
• Supporting the Financial Controller in preparation of annual budgets (MYB); SBP and forecasts.

Who are we looking for?

• Project Accounting experience within a DEFENCE environment
• Newly or closely qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA).
• The successful candidate will be highly customer focused and be experienced in communicating financial knowledge across all levels.
• Excellent prioritisation and self-management skills are key, as is the ability to manage and meet a wide variety of internal and external reporting deadlines.
• Experience of working in a business partnering capacity with the ability to challenge the status quo is desirable.

The successful candidate will need full Security Clearance (SC) -For more information and guidance please visit the UKSV website*

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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 for mid to senior roles, or the for graduate and apprentice roles.

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