Finance Manager

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

7/10/2025

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Bristol, Plymouth, Leicester or Rosyth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65996

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 either of our Bristol, Plymouth, Leicester or Rosyth sites.

The role

As a Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be in a leading role within our Babcock Central Accounting team in the Finance Business Services department with focus on the Marine, Mission Systems and Naval Nuclear business sectors.

Day-to-day, you’ll utilise working with Finance Managers to drive standardisation and optimisation of finance processes, and controls across Babcock Finance with particular focus on journal and balance sheet processes.

• Leading and managing capable and motivated people in delivering a high-quality service to the Sectors
• Managing the transition of remaining FBS activity into the team as we standardise scope across the FBS function
• Maintaining strong controls and processes as we migrate entities from IFS to SAP ERP accounting systems
• Team management including objective setting, development plans, coaching and task delegation
• Effective management of month end and year end processes to ensure that activities are performed accurately and to tight deadlines
• Review and approval of non-contract specific repeatable journals for UK entities, including monthly accruals and prepayments, maintaining a strong control focus
• Full oversight of the Balance Sheet reconciliation process for the Sectors, leveraging input from the wider finance community to ensure completeness, accuracy and audit compliance in line with Group policy
• Providing management information to Sectors on the performance of their balance sheets
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements, based at either of our Bristol, Plymouth, Leicester or Rosyth sites.

Essential Experience Of The Finance Manager

• Hands-on experience of managing and developing a team within a Finance function
• Strong experience in reviewing and improving finance processes with a fresh perspective
• Technical finance skills, with proven ability to understand and interpret accounting principles (being able to explain technical accounting to non-technical, non-financial staff)
• Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g., IFS, SAP, Navision, BPC, TMS)
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Finance Manager

• Qualified Accountant with a 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit.
• ‘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
• Flexible locations
  
  
  

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: 08/08/2025