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Job Title – Financial Controller

Job Location – Bristol, UK

We can offer hybrid working pattern, with time in our offices and your home, to enable a good work-life balance. We do require you to be on-site 60% of the time across the month (3 days per week on average) .

Job ID – 12226

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 MAPPS (Bristol, Burgess Hill and Barrow-in-Furness) provides an Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) for the Royal Navy sub-surface and surface fleets, notably current Astute submarine and Queen Elizabeth Class (QEC) aircraft carriers, in-build Type 26 and Type 31 frigates. This software provides integrated monitoring and control of ship propulsion, electrical functions, auxiliaries and damage control machinery and systems.

A few of our employee benefits

• 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

  The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Lead a team providing general accounting, transactional accounting, and financial reporting services

• Ensure controls are designed and operating effectively to address risk and maintain compliance with accounting policies

• Responsible for local statutory reporting and financial statement delivery, working effectively with auditors to proactively plan audits and satisfactorily address potential audit concerns.

• Support intercompany billing processes, including loaned labor processing, indirect expense transfers, and reconciliation of intercompany activity

• Manage monthly close activities including journal entry and account reconciliation review, quarterly and annual schedules, and financial analytics

• Ensure revenue recognition is appropriately recognized, documenting revenue recognition analysis as well as confirming appropriate controls in place to ensure accuracy of reported program revenue

• Coordinate work during monthly, quarterly, and annual close cycles to ensure deadlines are achieved

• Liaise with business unit leadership and support personnel

• Create and/or updates process documentation including Sarbanes Oxley narrative documents

• Must be comfortable working within a matrix environment concurrently supporting several business leaders, including Finance leaders at MAPPS UK, and Maritime sector accounting leadership.

• Prepare ad-hoc reporting and assist with special projects to include financial system support, as requested.

  What you’ll bring

  The role of Financial Controller requires the following experience and skills:

• Qualified with a recognised accounting body (ACMA, ACCA etc), with significant post qualified experience

• Team management experience with comprehensive knowledge of UK reporting requirements

• Experience in the monthly, quarterly, and annual close in a fast-paced close process with multiple, often competing, deadlines

• Experience in a complex ERP environment

• Experience with facilitating internal and external audits

• Ability to develop broad, cooperative relationships with numerous groups and individuals

  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 and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

  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.

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L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.