Engineered to Protect, that’s our promise, we protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world. You will assist/ lead with reviewing bids across the business, working with the various bid teams, PMs and technical teams to ensure pricing for contracts has been done correctly and in accordance with company expectations.
Junior/Senior Costing Accountant will be based at either our Barnstaple, Bristol or Beckington site. This role allows for flexible working.
The salary for this role is up to £46k, depending on experience.
What you’ll be doing
- Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner for Business Winning
- Assist/ lead with the finance elements of the bid management process, ensuring high-quality submissions, timely delivery and profitability
- Assist/ lead with reviewing bids for complex proposals and help with providing technical assurance of bid costings and scope
- Assist/ lead in identifying and managing key project risks and possible issues
- Assist/ lead with producing financial numbers in an efficient and clear manner
- Collaborate with technical teams, project managers and Bid teams to generate creditable pricing
About our company
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient.
We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperation. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.
What we offer
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we’re always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Have a look at the benefits we offer:
Work life balance
- Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus buy and sell
- Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
- Half day Fridays
- Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
Family & wellbeing
- Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
- All Staff Bonus
- Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing Centre
- Sports & Social activities
- Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
- Life assurance policy
- Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
- Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources
- Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
- Private seated lunch areas
- Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
- Onsite showers and toiletries provision
- Free onsite parking
The skills you need
- Junior candidates studying towards a recognised accounting qualification or qualified via AAT etc (CIMA/ ACCA/ ACA) – Senior candidates must be part-qualified
- Financially astute, able to assist with defining and managing bid and project budgets, maintain profit margins and deliver returns
- Strong numerical, organisational skills and attention to detail, Confident in prioritisation and managing concurrent workstreams
- Ability to manage own workload and work to deadlines
- Experience of the formulation of complicated bids for large and complicated projects
- Experience of full life-cycles bid and project management
- Experience of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
- Ability to work with project teams and drive deliverables in a challenging environment
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
If you’d like to know more, please give Kelly Thomas from our Talent Acquisition Team a call on 03330 414300. Or reach out to us on [email protected]