AWE
Finance Business Partner
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Finance Business Partner
Location: Reading Area, with free onsite parking.
Package: £36,710 - £50,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
Working Pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight, with every other Friday as a non-working day. This role is eligible for hybrid working, meaning employees typically spend three days on site in a long week and two days on site in a short week. We support flexible working where possible, including part-time and varied working hours, so please let us know if you would like us to consider an alternative working arrangement when you apply.
Ready to play your part?
At AWE, it’s not just a job, it’s far more than that. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part?
As a key member of our Finance Business Partnering team, the Finance Business Partner Specialist plays a vital role in delivering high-quality financial insight and expertise. You’ll provide trusted, expert advice to the Business Partner Manager and the wider Service Delivery Unit, helping to shape informed decision-making and drive strong financial performance across AWE.
Key Accountabilities:
- Complying with appropriate procedures, processes, and systems to ensure the quality and consistency of data.
- Supporting the preparation, monitoring, and control of forecasts and budgets for specified areas, including change control.
- Supporting system interrogation and financial performance measurement of actual expenditure.
- Providing input to cost reports, including trend analysis and early warnings as necessary.
- Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality and be a great team player.
Key Responsibilities:
- Carry out variance analysis and cost monitoring against a range of financial measures and expense categories and provide input to narrative for impact and recovery statements.
- Building effective stakeholder engagement maintaining relationships with customer budget holders and wider stakeholders.
- Providing information and reports at an appropriate level budget holder meetings.
- Providing information to financial data to provide clear information and evidence to support business activities and requirements.
- Provide cost information for the financial case on business cases.
- Continuously improve the quality of service proactively identifying opportunities through engaging with the local teams, prioritizing changes that will add the most value.
- Being open to challenge and new ideas, sharing knowledge and experience, encouraging others through building a supportive team environment.
- Support the development of a Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and other change requirements.
- Assist and support the preparation of cost studies utilizing historical data. Providing data for benchmarking information to meet specific needs.
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The Company may require you to fulfill any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.
Who are we looking for?
- Good standard of general education, including business/finance qualification or equivalent or proven level of experience.
- Stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate at all levels.
- Analytical.
- Highly skilled in Microsoft Excel, with a strong working knowledge of the wider Microsoft Office suite.
Work hard, be rewarded:
We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return, we offer balance, with award-winning benefits including:
- 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market-leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family-friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
- Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
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Next steps:
Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognize that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply; we’d love to receive your application.
Important things you need to know:
We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1-stage process.
Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognize and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions, and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.
Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
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