Finance Manager

7 days ago

Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom Babcock Full time

Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Portsmouth or Lyneham or Bovington + Hybrid Working
Compensation: Up to £68,000 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF62444

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Finance Manager at one of our many sites.

The Role

As a Finance Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Supporting the Business Facing Finance Director and Business Facing team. This is a key role within the business with a focus on increased controls around budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

Day-to-day, you'll be expected to liaise with the Land Sector Finance Business Service (FBS) team, SAP FBS, Operations and Senior Management teams; this role is the link between Finance and the contract. Cost drivers from the production operations need to be properly understood and communicated in the business:

  1. Reporting of the contract or site monthly accounts, budgets, forecasts and strategic plans.
  2. Key member of contract/site senior management team.
  3. Supporting identified continuous improvement projects on behalf of the Finance function.
  4. Identifying opportunities to improve the service.
  5. Business Partner with the operational teams holding them to account with their forecasts and budgets.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Portsmouth or Lyneham or Bovington on a monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Finance Manager
  1. Ability to understand and manipulate data to present clear and concise financial messages for review.
  2. Ability to ensure deadlines and targets are achieved or surpassed.
  3. Experience with pricing.
  4. Business partnering skills.
  5. Ideally, you will have experience in the defence or similar sector but, this is not essential.
  6. Experience with EACs and long term contract accounting.
Qualifications for the Finance Manager
  1. You must hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) or equivalent/similar.
Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.

What we Offer
  1. Generous holiday allowance.
  2. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
  3. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
  4. Employee share scheme.
  5. Employee shopping savings portal.
  6. Payment of Professional Fees.
  7. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
  8. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
  9. 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
  10. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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