Head of Finance

Job Title: Head of Finance
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Plymouth, Devon or Westminster, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61705

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as Head of Finance.

The Role

As Head of Finance, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be a key member of the Defence Training and Marine Training Senior Management Team in supporting the Training Finance Director in providing financial leadership to the Defence Training and Marine Training business.

Day-to-day, you'll liaise with the Finance Business Services, Operations and Senior Management teams, lead and ensure accounts, budgets, forecasts and strategic plans are accurate as well as manage the production of monthly management accounts, be responsible for the management of the customer facing balance sheet control account reconciliations and rectification actions required to resolve and be the link between Finance and each of the contracts.

• Supporting identified continuous improvement projects on behalf of the Finance function
• Identifying opportunities to improve the service.
• Providing underlying finance and wider business support to the Defence Training and Marine Training senior management teams
• Manage the production of monthly management accounts including site commentaries
• Provide support to the monthly reviews of new business/projects/pricing and the tracking of

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home. This role can be based from Bristol, London or our Plymouth sites but travel between sites is required.

Essential Experience of the Head of Finance:

• 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.
• Comfortable and confident presenting at board level.
• Ability to work cross functional and collaboratively with senior non finance people.
• 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 Head of Finance:

• Fully Qualified with professional finance qualification

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
• 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.

Closing date: 14/01/2025