Finance Data Analyst

As a Finance Data Analyst within the FP&A Project Performance job family, you will support Project Finance and the wider Finance function by improving data quality, standardising templates and enabling greater automation across the Project Finance Capability Centre (PFCC) . You will work with multiple stakeholders to interpret data, modernise reporting approaches and strengthen financial controls. Your role plays a key part in supporting AdAstra and wider transformation activity, helping to embed consistent processes and deliver high-quality insights across the Air portfolio.

Core duties:

• Work across the PFCC to understand how data can be translated into meaningful insights that support strategy-making across the wider business
• Ensure compliance with financial controls and support internal and external audit requirements
• Apply data skills to modernise PFCC data maintenance, contributing to consistent Project Finance processes, performance excellence and robust financial governance
• Implement standard data rules to support automation, ensuring stakeholder requirements are understood and reflected in data structures
• Support data ownership by reducing manual corrections, improving data integrity and developing dashboards that provide insights, improve performance and enable others to self-serve

Do you have experience in Power BI?, * Part-qualified and studying towards a recognised accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW), or experience within a finance data environment with an eager desire to develop advanced data skills

• Ability to interpret data, generate meaningful insights and present clear outputs to senior stakeholders with minimal oversight
• Experience creating, developing and using PowerQuery and Power BI dashboards, with demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel
• Capability to collate and interpret data efficiently, identify when processes or systems are not performing as expected, and take appropriate action to support improvements

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., 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.