Finance Business Partnering Manager

Devonport Royal Dockyard; Cawsand; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP access

Annual health check

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Finance Business Partnering Manager based at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth. You will lead a finance team, deliver planning, budgeting and forecasting, and provide strategic financial advice to senior leaders within the Corporate Services contract.

The role offers hybrid working with 2–3 days on-site weekly, generous holiday, a matched pension scheme and access to health and wellbeing benefits.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with membership of a recognised body.
• Experience in financial governance, reporting and controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a finance team within Naval Nuclear contract.
• Drive continuous improvement in reporting and management information.

Skills

Financial planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Business partnering

Performance management

Governance & controls

Management reporting

Stakeholder mgmt

Change management

Team leadership

Education

ACCA

ACA

CIMA

ICAEW

ICAS

Equivalent qualification

Job description

Role Overview

financial insight, challenge and decision support to senior business leaders and stakeholders. Managing financial reporting activities for the Corporate Services contract within Naval Nuclear. Driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance reporting, governance, controls and management information. Leading and developing a team of finance professionals while promoting high performance and collaboration.

This role is 35 hours per week, based at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expectation of approximately 2 to 3 days on site each week.

Essential Experience

Essential experience of the Finance Business Partnering Manager. Strong experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, business partnering and performance management within a complex organisation. Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders through commercial insight and strategic financial advice. Experience leading annual planning cycles, rolling forecasts, scenario modelling, and performance reviews. Strong understanding of financial governance, controls and reporting, with experience improving finance processes and systems. Proven people leadership, stakeholder management and change management experience.

Qualifications for the Finance Business Partnering Manager

• Professionally qualified accountant, such as: Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Associate Chartered Accountant
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
• Or an equivalent recognised professional accounting qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a Sole UK National and 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 shopping savings portalPayment of Professional FeesReservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leaveHoliday 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

Babcock

BabcockWe're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we are building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please ##### 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: 14/10/######BABDESTNUC