Finance Manager

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Bristol or Plymouth or Tewkesbury + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF62375

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 Bristol, Plymouth or Tewkesbury sites.

The Role
As a Finance Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Reporting directly to the Director of Finance, you will be responsible for the production of the monthly financial accounts and reporting requirements for Mission Systems contracts, as well as delivering an accurate and timely full business forecast created in collaboration with the operational teams.

Day-to-day, you'll be accountable for all of the reporting requirements for the business unit, including thorough analysis of results and regular reviewing of key variances vs budgets / forecasts for both project and overheads, maintaining high levels of engagement from the Operational Directors, Heads of Business and Senior Finance team:

• Providing effective leadership and management to the local Finance team, ensuring high levels of employee wellbeing, engagement and output on a day-to-day basis.
• Playing a key role in the local operational leadership team, providing financial insight, recommendations and constructive challenge to enable effective management of the business unit.
• Responsible for ensuring quality and accuracy of information is at the centre of all monthly, quarterly and ad-hoc reporting.
• Maintaining strong and collaborative working relationships across the wider business.
• Provide a collaborative and respectful level of management.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Bristol, Plymouth or Tewkesbury, on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Finance Manager:

• Demonstratable experience in financial management or business management; ideally, in an international manufacturing environment.
• Experience of financial controls preferably, within a large business environment.
• Understanding of accounting standards relevant to tendering overhead costs as well as revenue recognition.
• Ability to behave as an agile & innovative individual, building trust-based relationships.
• Understanding of the bespoke engineering manufacturing sector is desired but, not essential.

Qualifications for the Finance Manager:

• You must hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, ACMA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS) or equivalent / similar.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Enhanced Developed Vetting (EDV) security clearance for this role. However, the successful candidate can start on Security Check (SC) security clearance but will need to gain Enhanced Developed Vetting (EDV) security clearance.

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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills
• A dynamic working environment

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 [e-mail] 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: 09/04/2025