Job Title – Project Accountant

Job Location – Brighton, UK

Please note that onsite working will be expected for at least 4 days per week.

Job ID – 14301

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Brighton are part of Release Systems and the Mission Avionics sector operating in the Aerospace domain. We specialise in high performance electro-mechanical systems and pneumatic technology for airborne weapon carriage release.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Half day finish on a Friday
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What the role will involve

Responsibilities will include the following:

• Programme cost accounting and control
• Analysing financial performance of the IPT and communicating results to key internal stakeholders
• Providing project accounting and analysis of IPT financial performance including EVM if required
• Performing revenue accounting and analysis
• Performing financial planning, budgeting and forecasting based on the inputs from IPT
• Providing financial actuals to feed into IPT planning activities and providing input to pricing of IPT's products and services
• Analysis of cost saving opportunities and creating financial scenarios to support Work Package Leads and IPT Leader in making cost management decisions
• Providing financial scenarios to IPT Planning & Control and IPT Leader to aide decision making
• Creating financial performance metrics in accordance with defined governance and IPT requirements
• Confirming payments have been received into the organisation
• Creating cost and pricing models to support generation of priced proposal/quotes in response to customer RFP/RFQ
• Managing programme finances within company business systems, including bid costs and sales forecast data

What you’ll bring

The role of Project Account requires the following experience and skills:

• Previous experience in a Project Finance role
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting and reporting
• EAC/ETC experience
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.