Head of Finance

7 days ago

Warrington, Warrington, United Kingdom Manpower RPO - Babcock Full time

Job Title: Head of Finance
Location: Warrington or Leicester or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 18 Month Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF62157

At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Head of Finance, at our Warrington, Leicester or Bristol sites.

The Role
As a Head of Finance, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary; being responsible for accounting operations and governance for the Nuclear Services business, including projects and related overhead areas, ensuring all accounting, finance and stakeholder policies, requirements and deadlines are fully met.

Day-to-day, you'll be ensuring appropriate financial control and governance, as well as supporting the delivery of the external audit; whilst also leading the Nuclear Services finance team, focusing on their development and training:

  • Take on projects at the request of the Cavendish Finance Director including supporting the ongoing development of the Cavendish and Nuclear sector finance function.
  • Support Nuclear Services leadership team in continuously striving to enhance sustainable financial performance (Nuclear Services, Cavendish and Nuclear sector), meet budgets and drive continuous improvement in managing spend.
  • Ensure that cost and income collection processes are adhered to in line with company contract management and financial procedures.
  • Ensure that financial forecasts are appropriately prepared and reviewed with appropriate detail to drive action.
  • Develop action-focused periodic reporting processes to monitor and challenge the operational businesses to maximise financial performance.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Warrington, Leicester or Bristol, on a weekly/monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Head of Finance:

  • Excellent people management and communication skills at all levels. Builds an awareness of career goals within the team and assists with their professional development.
  • Project accounting experience.
  • Experience in assessing and utilising team members' key attributes to create an effective team. Empowers others, inviting input from each person.
  • Experience of working with senior management.
  • Ability to deliver a robust business planning and reporting process.
  • High degree of commercial acumen.

Qualifications for the Head of Finance:

  • 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 Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

What We Offer:

  • Generous holiday allowance.
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
  • Employee share scheme.
  • Employee shopping savings portal.
  • Payment of Professional Fees.
  • Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
  • 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.
  • '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.
  • 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.

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