Draken Europe offers exciting careers that matter.
We believe that mission success does not start with the mission itself. It begins with our people.
Draken also believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.
The Role
We are currently recruiting for a Bid Accountant to provide financial modelling support across a variety of bids and other business opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Preparation of financial models for major bids, including those with significant financing arrangements, as part of delivery of a robust set of bid and pricing models capable of review by senior management
- Construction and ongoing maintenance of bid models suitable for new opportunities, capable of use across multiple bids of a similar nature
- Liaison with the wider business to gather input into costs, including ensuring costs have an appropriate basis of estimation, the correct phasing (both accounting and cash basis) and potential risks/opportunities
- Support wider business with financial inputs, providing a business partnering service to support with cost estimation, as well as applying a vigorous and healthy challenge to ensure costs are required and complete
- Ensure appropriate allocation of central overheads in the financial models
- Ensure all relevant financial accounting standards are taken into account, including those known to be coming into effect during the contract period
- Assisting with researching the taxation and corporate frameworks for international bids to ensure the costs of doing business overseas is fully understood and built into the financial models
- Prepare summary analysis of proposed customer pricing, including contribution to company reported results and cash flows
- Model multiple scenarios as required by the wider bidding review team
Experience / skills / qualifications
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent) with demonstrable accounting experience and strong intellectual curiosity
- Experience of Government contract pricing frameworks and requirements is desirable but not essential
- Excellent Microsoft Excel/financial modelling and analytical skills
- Ability to work unsupervised, with the drive to understand complex, multi-faceted scenarios from a financial perspective
- Prepared to work flexibly to achieve deadlines and multi-task, re-adjusting priorities and delivering accordingly
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability the confidence and communications skills to work in cross-functional teams and to influence others at all levels of the organisation, applying healthy and vigorous challenge where appropriate
- Able to present and communicate financial information to both Finance and non-Finance colleagues
- Sound technical skills and an ability to work both at a detailed level and higher review level
- Strong commercial bias
- Experience in a deadline driven environment where quality must be maintained
Our employee values
Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.
At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken Europe team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.
We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.
In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.