Job Title: Financal Controller

Job ID: 19457

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. 

Role overview: The Financial Controller will have full ownership of all Financial Control activities for the L3Harris Commercial Training Systems UK entities, including transactional processing, periodic reporting, SOX compliance and other activities. Work closely with the entities Commercial Finance and FP&A teams to continually improve processes and develop a best-in-class control environment.

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

Core responsibilities will involve:

• Day to day management and leadership of 6 direct reports
• Oversee the preparation of the monthly and quarterly results including Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow and variance analysis
• Ensure General Ledger and robust Balance Sheet controls are maintained, implemented and applied consistently
• Support the delivery of best practice approaches to the Order to Cash and Purchase to Pay processes, including ongoing metrics
• Drive through improvement initiatives, providing support and guidance to functional leads
• Provide support and guidance to the payroll function, enhancing the control environment
• Oversight on all UK HFM reporting
• Responsible for all key returns and reports on behalf of L3 CTS, including statutory accounts, corporation tax returns, SAO tax documentation, dealing with auditors, etc.
• Proactively streamline processes, identifying opportunities to eliminate waste
• Partner with upstream process owners supporting company-wide initiatives, and overseas colleagues driving synergies and standardisation
• Ad hoc projects, reporting and analysis

Qualification and educational requirements:

• ACA ‘big4’ Qualified with post qualification experience gained within large blue chip organizations

Essential skills and experience:

• Experience in leading a full accounting function including GL, AP, AR, Payroll & Banking
• The ideal candidate will be an ambitious, proactive accountant that likes driving change, and creating a best in class finance department
• Strong leadership/team development experience, minimum 3 years
• UK statutory accounts and external audit
• Experience working in a fast moving PE-backed environment
• Gravitas to challenge and support stakeholders of all levels across the business and challenge the status quo
• Self-starter with ability to work on own initiative, spot issues early and liaise effectively with key stakeholders
• Strong communicator that can tailor their approach to the audience and present with impact
• Resilient, able to work under pressure in a fast-changing environment
• Innovation, continuous improvement mentality
• Advanced Excel skills
• Desirable: SAP S/4 HANA

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