Finance Assistant

Babcock International Group; England; Hybrid; GBP 29,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading company in providing services that ensure safety and security. As a Finance Assistant, you will manage financial reporting and budgeting across various sites, with a part-time role allowing flexibility through hybrid working arrangements. This position provides excellent development opportunities within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for armed forces reservists

Holiday trading options

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Development opportunities and employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience using Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel.
• Previous finance experience in process-driven roles.
• Ability to achieve and maintain Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Assist in reporting of contract monthly accounts and budgets.
• Ensure accuracy in customer billing and resolve related queries.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and contract specific journals.

Skills

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Sharepoint)

Finance IT applications

Experience in process-driven roles

Job description

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Job Title: Finance Assistant
Location: Chatham, Kent, or Minley, Hampshire or Portsmouth, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £29, pro rata + Benefits
Role Type: Part time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

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 Assistant at either ourChatham, Kent, our Minley, Hampshire or our Portsmouth, Hampshire sites.

The role
As a Finance Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a key role within the contract performance with a focus on cash generation, budgeting and forecasting.

Day-to-day, you’ll assist in the reporting of the contract monthly accounts, budgets and forecasts, ensure billing is accurate and timely, assist in the preparation of key financial data in support of customer and stakeholder management and provide support to pricing activity and the associated governance process.

Customer billing and related query resolution.

Prepare customer facing balance sheet control account reconciliations and perform rectification actions required to resolve queries or issues.

Prepare contract specific journals.

Assist Management Accountant in monthly Cost Reviews with Operations.

Ensure integrity of accounting data via robust, timely transactional processing and establish, create and maintain appropriate processes to ensure effective financial and business controls.

This role is part time, 22 hours per week and requires regular travel to Portsmouth on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Finance Assistant

Extensive experience in the use of Microsoft Office suite of applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and Sharepoint.

Experience of Finance IT applications (e.g. SAP, Navision, IFS etc.)

Previous experience of working in a very process driven role.

Qualifications for the Finance Assistant
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Clearance (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

What we offer

• 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. This Window opens February through to March annually
• ‘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