Finance Manager

Telford, England, United Kingdom

6/24/2025

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Telford or Warminster or Bristol or Andover or Bovington + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF62366

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 Telford or Warminster or Bristol or Andover or Bovington sites.

The Role

As a Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. An exciting role supporting 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 the link between Finance and the contract operational teams. Cost drivers from the production operations need to be properly understood and communicated in the business:

• Production of timely and technically accurate contract or site accounts, budgets, forecasts, and strategic plans including variance analysis
• Business Partner with the operational teams holding them to account with their forecasts and budgets.
• Support the operational teams with analysis and insight.
• Providing and managing any contractual financial information
• Production and quarterly revenue forecasting
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Telford or Warminster or Bristol or Andover or Bovington on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arragements.

Essential Experience of the Finance Manager:

• Extensive experience in the use of Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio and Outlook
• Excellent communication skills particularly communication at senior levels and with the ability to clearly communicate financial information to non-Finance managers and staff.
• Up to date knowledge of Financial Accounting framework and that of the Regulating Bodies.
• Ability to provide added value analytical information to support the decision-making process of the business
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Finance Manager:

• Recognised professional 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.

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 [email protected] 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: 16/07/2025