Commercial Finance Analyst

Crawley, United Kingdom

Job ID 17037

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Specialist, Financial Planning and Analysis/ FP&A and BI/ Commercial Finance

Job ID: 17037

Job Location: Crawley, West Sussex, UK

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

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 Crawley specialise in technology and systems to enable quality pilot training from distance learning systems applications and maintenance solutions to training devices and full flight simulators, our technology covers the complete training spectrum. 

We are looking for exceptional people with outstanding data visualization and analytical skills. You will support the business in unlocking its profitable growth potential in a fast paced and high growth commercial aviation recovery market. In the role of Financial Business Intelligence Analyst, you will report to the Head of Business Intelligence, CAS (Comercial Avaition Solutions). Being a part of the Business Intelligence team, you will support the growth and transformation of our business. You will own the production of data, metrics and insights required to drive superior performance of CAS business and exceeding the financial plans and prepare business performance review reports, be accountable for the creation and accurate updates of the balance scorecard dashboards and presentations to support the strategic business reviews and leadership decision making. You will use a range of metrics and models to forecast, link operational objectives to financials, and determine opportunities for improvement.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, commercially minded individual to become an integral part of the team, who is passionate about technology and will want to expand their horizons in an exciting fast-moving arena of commercial Aerospace simulation and training.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• 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
• Subsidised staff restaurant  
• Staff car park incl. electric vehicle charging stations

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Own the creation and production of accurate data dashboards, metrics and insights required to drive superior performance of CAS business and exceeding the financial plans.
• Provide training and coaching to the CAS business teams to ensure accurate and consistent data is provided to support the Source of Truth reporting process.
• Support the forecast, strategic planning and target setting process.
• Build and maintain tools to support one source of the truth for financial and non-financial data.
• Lead the roll out of Business Intelligence tools across CAS and ensure that the data feeds to the BI tools are automated.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Advanced Excel skills are essential and competence in analyzing large volumes of data from different sources.
• Experience of Business Intelligence tools (Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, etc).
• Business qualification or been in a role that has required high levels of numeracy.

• Credibility to manage relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Commercially driven and energized professional who operates with a sense of urgency and bias for action.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data and metrics to drive decisions

Important to know

All candidates who wish to be considered for this vacancy must have the right to work in the UK.