Finance Director

Job Title: Finance Director
Location: Warrington, Cheshire (Flexible) + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59958

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 Finance Director.

The Role
As a Finance Director, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Working with the Nuclear Sector CFO and MD of Cavendish Nuclear, a fast-growing, profitable part of our wider nuclear sector; providing leadership, direction, and oversight of the sector's financial activities.

Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for the preparation of business unit financial reports, project performance reports, and forecasts for future business growth; you'll also be required to support various new opportunities, bids, and tenders, as well as being able to take a more commercial perspective on the business:

• Key business interface with operational and functional directors and any other board members.
• Financial guidance for the strategy and development of the business.
• Financial guidance on business winning in a competitive environment.
• Drive the business to exceed profit and cash targets.
• Interface with Sector finance team.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Finance Director:

• Experience in financial management at FD level in a project engineering environment.
• Successful delivery of working capital and cash flow improvements.
• Demonstrable experience as a financial leader with the drive, ambition, and gravitas to lead a high-performing team.
• Proven capability and significant experience of leading change, implementing systems, and processes.
• High level of commercial acumen.
• Extensive experience of working with bids and tenders.

Qualifications for the Finance Director:

• 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 Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. 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.

Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

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: 06/11/2024