Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon or Stoke Gifford, Bristol – Hybrid Working
Compensation: Up to £65,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF55360

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 either our Devonport Royal Dockyard or Bristol Business Park sites.

The role
As a Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Following a reorganisation of the Nuclear Babcock Finance department we have an opportunity for a highly skilled and focused individual to join our team.

Day to day, you’ll be reporting to the Senior Finance team, the actual and forecast P & L, balance sheet extracts, operating cash flow and orderbook with variance analysis and recommendations for the relevant area of the business unit; all the while supporting the preparation of the technical accounting papers for revenue recognition.

• Attend key meetings with the business management teams and provide guidance, challenge and support.
• Interact with key support functions and operational leads across the business.
• Interact with other Finance Managers across the business.
• Deputise for the Head of Finance.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week, and will be based at either our Devonport Royal Dockyard or Babcock Technology Centre sites, with hybrid working from home arrangements.

Essential experience of the Finance Manager:

• Extensive professional development to remain relevant with all technical updates, especially IFRS 15.
• Possess a strong level of knowledge and use of ERP systems and be able to analyse and interrogate data.
• Demonstratable skills with using Excel, ideally with power query and power BI knowledge plus PowerPoint, Teams & Word.
• Ability to adapt to changing deadlines.
• Have the capacity to work flexibly.

Qualifications for the Finance Manager:

• ACA / ACCA / ACMA / CIMA or similar / equivalent qualifications.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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

Babcock International
For over 130 years Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.

Closing date: 18/01/2024

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