Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54828
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 Lakeside site.
The role
As a Finance Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll support 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 liaise with the Land Sector Shared Service team (SSC), SAP SSC, Operations and Senior Management teams. This Role is a vital link between Finance and the contract. Cost drivers from the production operations need to be properly understood and communicated in the business.
- Reporting of the contract or site monthly accounts, budgets, forecasts and strategic plans
- Deputising for the Head of Finance when required
- Key member of contract/site' senior management team
- 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 will be based at our Lakeside, Portsmouth with hybrid working from home arrangements.
Essential experience of the Finance Manager:
- Ability to understand and manipulate data to present clear and concise financial messages for review
- Ability to ensure deadlines and targets are achieved or surpassed
- Extensive experience in the use of Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio and Outlook
- Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g. SAP, NAV (Navision, IFS etc.)
Qualifications for the Finance Manager:
- Relevant recognised professional qualification, proven experience post qualification or qualification by experience
The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution 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 most 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 a century 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: 14/12/23