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.

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 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.