Finance Manager

London, England, United Kingdom

3/29/2025

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: London or Portsmouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Up to £68,000 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF62466

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 Southwark, London or Portsmouth sites.

The Role

As a Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Support the Business Facing Finance Director and Business Facing team on our Fire Training contracts. 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 Finance Business Service (FBS) team, SAP FBS, Operations and Senior Management teams. Role is link between Finance and the Fire Training contracts. Cost drivers from the production operations need to be properly understood and communicated in the business:

• Responsible for the financial management of the contract finances.
• Reporting of the contract or site monthly accounts, budgets, forecasts and strategic plans.
• Key member of the contract’s senior management team.
• Supporting identified continuous improvement projects on behalf of the Finance function.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the service.
  
  
  

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to London and other nearby sites, on a monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Finance Manager:

• Ability to understand and manipulate data to present clear and concise financial messages for review.
• Ability to ensure deadlines and targets are achieved or surpassed.
• Business partnering skills.
• Experience with EACs and long-term contract accounting.
• Ideally, you will have experience in the defence or similar sector but, this is not essential.
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Finance Manager:

• 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.

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: 09/04/2025