Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £70,000 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 52 Weeks Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF58986
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 our Portsmouth site.
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 liaising with the Land Sector Shared Service team (SSC), SAP SSC, Operations and Senior Management teams. This role is the link between Finance and the contract. Cost drivers from operations need to be properly understood and communicated in the business.
Reporting to the Head of Finance you will be responsible for the financial management and reporting of the contract's finances. This will include:
- Reporting of the contract monthly accounts, budgets, forecasts and strategic plans
- Key member of contract / site' senior management team involving
- Supporting identified continuous improvement projects on behalf of the Finance function.
- Identifying opportunities to improve the service.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential Experience of the Finance Manager:
- Ability to understand and manipulate data to present clear and concise financial messages for review.
- Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g. SAP).
- Demonstrable business partnering skills.
- Proven experience in the use of Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio and Outlook.
- Ability to ensure deadlines and targets are achieved or surpassed.
Qualifications for the Finance Manager:
- Ideally, you will 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 (www.gov.uk).
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
- Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
- Autonomy to perform the role.
- 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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