Deputy Financial Controller Fixed Term Appointment

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6 Month Fixed Term Appointment

The Cyber & Information (C&I) Business Unit within QinetiQ is recruiting for a Fixed Term Contractor to cover the Deputy Financial Controller Role. The role involves providing Financial control, advice and support on multiple business projects ensuring accuracy, relevance and timeliness of the financial reporting. Provide high quality financial information for decision making purposes

Key Accountabilities:
1. Responsibility for ensuring that financial information within the C&I Business Unit is relevant, accurate and timely.

2. Producing month end, year end, forecasting and annual budget information.

3. Responsiblility for management accounting including variance analysis and contributing to the preparation of the monthly AP pack.

4. Ad hoc financial tasks and projects as required including support to the C&I FC and FD

5. Working closely and providing leadership and guidance across the Finance & Accounting Services Team to ensure that a seamless Finance service is provided to the C&I Business Unit.

6. Review and participate in the financial aspect of bids.

7. Heavy involvement in producing forecast and Budget models to suit reviews with C&I businesses.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience, Personal Qualities:
Qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA or qualified by significant experience

Experience in producing monthly, year end and forecasting information for a significant size business unit either by you or as part of a team

Strong Excel skills and experience in the use of Hyperion reporting software and SAP is an advantage

Strong analytical skills as well as evaluative judgement based on the analysis of factual information

Ability to apply sound judgement, with a proactive & innovative approach to problem solving

Ability to make impartial priority calls and determine appropriate course of action, dealing with many different stakeholder views.

Good interpersonal communication and influencing skills.

Ability to proactively build relationships across the business to ensure that business objectives are achieved.

Able to explain financial information to non-finance people

Excellent networking skills and ability to work as part of a team.

Tenacious, persistent and have the ability to multi task

The ability to exercise sound judgement based on analysis of data and potential risk.

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here .

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.