Finance Business Partner

Babcock International Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defense and space manufacturing sector is seeking a Finance Business Partner to join their Bristol team. In this role, you'll support financial operations and improve reporting processes while collaborating with various teams. Candidates should possess strong financial analysis skills and accounting qualifications, with a commitment to fostering relationships across the organization. This full-time position offers a competitive compensation package alongside significant career development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance partnership role is essential.
• Strong understanding of financial data manipulation.
• Proactive planning and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support to the Finance Manager and Head of Business.
• Build relationships with cost centre managers for monthly reporting.
• Contribute to cash management and senior commentary.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial analysis

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

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Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65008

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 Business Partner at our Bristol site.

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65008

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 Business Partner at our Bristol site.

The role

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The role will require supporting the tendering and organic growth agenda of the Mission Systems Secure Communications business as well as contributing to the business forecasting.

Day-to-day, you’ll be providing key financial support to the Finance Manager and Head of Business, as well as working closely with the Operational team to improve processes and provide robust reporting to enable them to make necessary decisions.

• Building strong, supportive relationships with the cost centre managers and bidding teams, providing monthly reporting information with detailed variance analysis.
• Inputting towards the monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations and Overhead review packs, reviewing regularly with all key stakeholders, ensuring documentation is delivered on time and to the highest standard.
• Completing forecasting requirements on-time and to the highest standard.
• Constantly reviewing Projects to ensure profit maximisation and trading margins are accurate.
• Holding monthly reviews with the Operational team to provide details of performance and areas questioning / challenging where necessary.
• Contributing to cash management, weekly forecasting and senior commentary.
• Providing key financial support to internal and external audits
• Developing and maintaining detailed financial models relating to bids, strategy and new business, ensuring key financial controls are in place and operating effectively in all models and processes.
  
  
  

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and is based between our Bristol sites, BTC and Ashton Vale, providing a hybrid working arrangement of two days in the office/onsite and three days working from home.

Essential Experience Of The Finance Business Partner

• Demonstrable cross-functional / business partnering experience and collaboration skills
• Proactive planner and project manager
• Availability and flexibility to achieve any extended and temporary hours in order to hit submission deadlines.
• Anticipates and encourages change
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Finance Business Partner

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is desirable.
• Ideally you will be a qualified Accountant (preferably ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with ability to understand and manipulate data to present clear and concise financial messages for review.
  
  
  

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 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 ten 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
  
  
  

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.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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