Finance Manager

Babcock International Group; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in Plymouth is looking for a Finance Manager to provide critical business partnering support. Responsibilities include managing bid costs and liaising with key stakeholders. Candidates must hold a recognized accounting qualification and have strong communication skills. This full-time role offers a hybrid working arrangement and various benefits including a generous holiday allowance and a matched contribution pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong communicator, ability to work across various levels.
• Hands-on approach with an eye on the big picture.
• Drive for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Finance lead for a bid; main point of contact for the bid team.
• Manage bid costs ensuring all costs are captured.
• Provide financial assumptions for bidding purposes.

Skills

Strong communicator

Hands-on approach

Drive for continuous improvement

Willingness to challenge

Education

Recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65353

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 Plymouth or Bristol sites.

The Role

As a Finance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Providing critical business partnering support to the NSIGN bid directors, as well as other key supporting functions and the wider Marine Programmes leadership and delivery teams. You will be pivotal in developing Babcock’s support solution, assisting the bid and business leadership teams to enhance our position as a long-term partner to the MoD through an improved and longer contractual agreement.

Day-to-day, you’ll use your knowledge and experience of how Babcock delivers surface ship support to the MoD to agree key assumptions and influence pricing decisions during the bid. Leaning on this experience, you will build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the enterprise, including the delivery teams, Project Managers and key customer contacts, to ensure best practice is followed, prior lessons are learned and ultimately financial performance is maximised.

Responsibilities

• Finance lead for a bid; main point of contact for the bid team.
• Management of bid costs to ensure all costs are captured, understood, reviewed and recovered.
• Liaison with customer bid teams, attendance at customer workshops.
• Provision of financial assumptions for bidding and internal forecasting purposes.
• Integral part of the Marine Programmes finance team, assisting Head of Finance and Finance Director where necessary.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to Plymouth or Bristol, on a weekly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience

• Strong communicator, ability to work with individuals at various levels of the organisation.
• Ability and desire to take a hands-on approach, willing to get into the detail but also see the big picture.
• Drive for continuous improvement, and comfortable questioning the status quo.
• Strong character; willing and comfortable to challenge.

Qualifications

• You must hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) 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. 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.

Closing date

Closing Date: 01/10/2025

#BABDESTNUC