Role purpose
This role provides hands‑on finance and controlling support within ETAS UK, part of the Bosch UK group, with a strong emphasis on project accounting and operational controlling. A significant proportion of ETAS activity is delivered through software engineering and customer projects, and this role is critical to ensuring projects are correctly set up, actively monitored and accurately reflected in the financials.
You will be directly responsible for delivering core controlling activities, with day‑to‑day ownership of project cost and revenue recognition, month‑end closing and ongoing financial control, ensuring statutory, reporting and forecasting requirements are met.
What you’ll do
- Deliver project accounting day to day: Take hands‑on responsibility for the financial set‑up, monitoring and control of software engineering and customer projects. Ensure project costs, revenues and milestones are correctly structured, tracked and recognised in line with contractual terms and applicable business models.
- Own month‑end delivery: Prepare and deliver month‑end closing activities, including project cost and revenue adjustments, reconciliations, and the production of clear, factual commentary on movements and variances.
- Explain cost allocation and business model impacts to external stakeholders: Support external audits by clearly explaining how costs and revenues are allocated across different business models (e.g. T&M, fixed price, cost‑plus, intercompany arrangements). Provide transparent, well‑evidenced explanations that reconcile operational activity to financial outcomes and financial statements.
- Maintain financial control and compliance: Ensure all costs and revenues are recorded in the correct legal entity, including accurate intercompany and transfer pricing treatment. Own the operational delivery of the R&D tax credit process, working directly with external advisers and coordinating input from development teams.
- Service charge control: Prepare, reconcile and manage service charge calculations for the third‑party tenant, ensuring costs are accurately allocated, supported and billed in line with contractual agreements.
- Support forecasting and planning: Prepare and update forecasts with a strong operational focus on cost planning, transfer price calculations, and net working capital KPIs. Challenge assumptions and highlight risks, opportunities or inconsistencies.
- Work closely with the business: Partner with cost centre owners, project managers and engineers to track actuals, explain variances, highlight risks early and support realistic forecasting and decision‑making.
- Ensure process discipline and system integrity: Identify control gaps or process weaknesses, resolve root causes and make practical improvements to strengthen day‑to‑day ways of working. Provide hands‑on support to resolve reporting or system issues where they impact financial accuracy or audit outcomes.
- Support managers, teams and operational finance processes: Provide direct guidance to non‑finance stakeholders, handle operational escalations, and ensure finance processes are applied consistently. Act as a practical link between the group leader and the wider team to support purchasing, payment approvals, and day‑to‑day finance activities, reducing reliance on the manager for BAU topics.
What we’re looking for
This role suits someone who:
- Has strong hands‑on experience in project accounting or project‑based environments
- Is comfortable working in detail, under time pressure and to fixed deadlines in a complex business environment
- Can clearly explain financial impacts to non‑finance stakeholders across UK and non UK locations
- Focuses on accuracy, compliance and getting things right first time
Why ETAS and Bosch
At ETAS, and the Bosch Group, finance plays a key operational role in keeping the business running smoothly and compliantly. This role offers the opportunity to make a visible, day‑to‑day impact by maintaining strong project financial control, reliable reporting and effective support to the business.